This year was the second Scala conference in Japan. We've changed the name to ScalaMatsuri, which means Scala festival in Japanese. 300 tickets sold out. With invited guests and free tickets for sponsors, there may have been even more people. The venue was at CyberAgent, which runs blog service and online ad services.

Personally, I don't mind using SublimeText, which is my editor of choice for a while. But I'm also curious about commandline editors since many people taut their ability to code over the network. You could forward X or remote in using some other way and still use Sublime, but let's see how if goes.

I started working on this Vim setup when I got a new MBP recently. Figured, I can try something new. So, this post is more of a personal memo written by a total newbie, which is what blogs are all about. caveat emptor. In general though, the configuration is mostly inspired by yuroyoro-san's blog post from a couple years ago.

various non-vim things

dotfiles

The setup described in this post is checked into eed3si9n/dotfiles. It is encouraged to fork other's dotfiles, but I wanted to understand what settings I'm bringing in, so I wrote mine from scratch.

The general idea of the dotfiles is that it will be checked out to ~/dotfiles/, and contains files like zshrc. These root-level configuration files are then symbolically linked under the home directory as ~/.zshrc.

The need for regular expressions is real. Whenver I need to transform a set of text files it usually ends up with fumbling through the documentation of find command, zsh, and StackOverflow Perl questions. I would rather use Scala instead of muddling through Perl. It's really the matter of my familiarity than anything else.

For example, I now have over a hundred reStructuredText files that I want to convert into markdown. I first tried pandoc, and it looked mostly ok. As I was going through the details, however, I noticed that many of the code literals were not converting over as formatted. This is because they were formatted using either single ticks or using Interpreted Text. Preprocessing the text with a series of regex replacements should work.

See Preview of upcoming sbt 1.0 features: Read about the new plugins posted on typesafe.com/blog.

Slides from nescala day 2 unconference:

• 30 sbt plugins in 15 minutes

I may have added a few more :)

Here are the slide decks and video for learning Scalaz talk:

• nescala2014_learning_scalaz.pdf
• video of the talk

Added day 21 on html5 book.

Added day 20 on html5 book.

Added day 19 on the html5 book.

Woke up early yesterday, so I started skimming @xuwei_k's override blog post. The topic was so intriguing, I got out of the bed and started translating it as the curious case of putting override modifier when overriding an abstract method in Scala. In there he describes the conundrum of providing the default instances to typeclasses by using Scalaz codebase as an example.

Here's a simplified representation of the problem:

trait Functor {
  def map: String
}
trait Traverse extends Functor {
  override def map: String = "meh"
}
sealed trait OneOrFunctor extends Functor {
  override def map: String = "better"
}
sealed trait OneOrTraverse extends OneOrFunctor with Traverse {
}
object OneOr {
  def OneOrFunctor: Functor = new OneOrFunctor {}
  def OneOrTraverse: Traverse = new OneOrTraverse {}
}