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Documentation on the Squeryl site is a bit outdated, so I decided to write a short howto on the topic.

This is a bit of rare task to exclude something from a sourceset without knowing exactly what to exclude, but it is doable.

Local variables could be trickier than you think in Gradle

Code snippet to set Scala and Java compiler options for joint compilation in Gradle