All posts by Mirko Stocker
Eliminating Pattern Matching
In the last few years, I worked on several Java projects where we transformed and analyzed abstract syntax trees, so when I started learning Scala, pattern-matching quickly became one of my favorite language features. I could never warm up to the visitor pattern, so I was thankful that Scala offered a much more powerful alternative. […]
Plans for 2011
I originally wanted to write a review of 2010 here, but by now I definitely missed the deadline for year-end-retrospectives, so I’m going to make this about my plans for 2011. I’ve spent a large portion of last year on the Scala Refactoring project, and I’m quite happy with the results: four editors/IDEs are using […]
Scala IDE at Eclipse Summit Europe 2010
It seems to be customary to announce his Eclipse Summit talk in blogs, so here’s mine: My talk will of course be on the Scala IDE for Eclipse: This talk introduces the Scala IDE for Eclipse, the obvious choice for all Eclipse users who want to write Scala code. We are going to both take […]
Eclipse Helios Released: What It Doesn’t Have
Many good reviews already cover all the nice new features that are in Eclipse Helios, so I’m going to show you a three annoyances that have been bothering me for years and are still not fixed in Helios. And these aren’t things like the high memory consumption or the sluggish interface. Multiple Desktops A bug […]
Scala Refactoring Thesis Finished
I’m done! A few minutes ago, I handed in my thesis on Scala Refactoring. The project also has a new home at scala-refactoring.org, where you can find more about the refactorings I implemented, how they can be used, etc. I also recommend reading my report, but if you just want an overview, take a look […]
Scala Refactoring Talk at Scala Days 2010
My talk at Scala Days 2010 is now available online: And don’t forget to take a look at the other talks.
Building Eclipse Plug-ins Written in Scala with Maven/Tycho
The Scala Refactoring project currently uses a rather crude hand-written ant build file; it compiles and runs tests. What it doesn’t do is creating a proper OSGi bundle, which I need if I want to do proper releases and integrate it into the Scala Eclipse IDE. Most of my colleagues are using PDE build, but […]
Extract Method for Scala
I haven’t blogged in quite a while now. Actually, the last entry was to announce my term project on Scala Refactoring. My excuse is, I was hard at work! So without further ado: Select the line with the assignment to b, murmur the incantation press some keys, et voilà: It also works with multiple return […]