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Cape Coder is a personal blog at capecoder.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2012

Blogging from the Cape of Storms

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  1. I'd look at Play framework V2 + Scala http://www.playframework.org/ and Vert.x http://vertxproject.wordpress.com/ (Scala support coming soon). Since you already know Ruby you may consider using JRuby or Groovy with Vert.x as other options. Scala and Java are more efficient though. A good list of books for learning Play and Scala: http://capecoder.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/scala-books-being-... IntelliJ + Scala plugin…

    Comment linking /2012/05/06/scala-books-being-published-at-quite-a-rate/

    on “Ask HN: How to get productive with the JVM in 48h?”
  2. Submitted Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  3. The Scala code for the same task gets the job done in half as many lines: http://capecoder.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/spellchecker-in-sc...

    Comment linking /2012/04/15/spellchecker-in-scala-vs-kotlin/

    on “Exploring Kotlin, writing a simple spell checker”
  4. Submitted Language popularity: It’s not about search engine result counts as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Scala books being published at quite a rate as a story · 20 points

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  6. Submitted Downloads of Scala plugin for IntelliJ rocket upwards as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Scala adoption continues to climb rapidly as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted 24 Books for learning Scala as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Language benchmark results mapped to car types as a story · 1 points

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