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The error "class XXX inherits conflicting members" is almost obvious by the compiler message, but stop just one step short of the full solution.

It is possible to create a generic class, that would have parts of it aware of the actual class of its type argument. Without reflection and linked in compile time. Here is how.

Ever seen "Failed to initialize compiler: object scala.runtime in compiler mirror not found." error? Delete a corrupted JAR file.

There is a big push in the Linux community to adopt a new init system. And it appears that the majority of people a leaning towards systemd. I have something to say about it.

Am I using Scala's string interpolation too much?

s"${ph.firstName} ${ph.lastName}${ph.credentials.map(", " + _).getOrElse("")}"

JVM engineers published JMH to Maven recently, it is finally simple to benchmark java code performance

There is a simple command to remove a prefix in a camelCase formatted string keeping the format correct

Documentation on the Squeryl site is a bit outdated, so I decided to write a short howto on the topic.