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(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

At LinkedIn, we’ve started to use the Play Framework, which supports not only Java, but also Scala. Many teams have opted to write their apps in Scala, so I’ve...

Just today, I got my 1,000th recruiter email in the last ~4 years. I know this is the number because I’m slightly obsessed with organization and have added a s...

For some reason, you’ve gotten into a debate with me about philosophy, software, psychology, history, life, the universe, and everything. Awesome! Before we go ...

My answer on Quora to What are the pros and cons of Play Framework 2, for a Java developer?:

My answer on Quora to What are the pros and cons of Play Framework 2, for a Scala developer?:

A blog post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog about Play Framework: async I/O without the thread pool and callback hell::

This is the eulogy I gave for my grandfather on March 14, 2013. He was 93 years old.

A blog post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog about The Play Framework at LinkedIn::

I just spent a few weeks battling a strange, infrequent, hard-to-reproduce error when using JDBC to talk to MySQL. After about a dozen experiments, I think I’ve...