Option and flatMap
What is an Option anyway? One of the things that confused me when I first started learning about the Option type in Scala was that I »
Screen Scraping Secure Pages
Recently I needed an API for some data I wanted to use in an app. The data was behind a secure login with no API exposed »
Interesting Scala Compiler Features
I've learnt a number of interesting things about the Scala compiler recently, the first of which is the @annotation.tailrec annotation - if you »
Iterative to Functional Recursion
So I'm working through a book called 'Functional Programming in Scala' and one of the exercises was to implement a recursive method »
CORS and (Scala) Play
What is CORS? CORS stands for 'Cross Origin Resource Sharing'. It's a way for a website to access resources (e.g. via »