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Sample query to parse address line into fields in PostgreSQL without stored procedures

Unexpected iteration over java linked list

Better way to work around JVM type erasure in Scala pattern matching

This is a bit of functionality that I keep googling up over and over again.

Scala is very complex, and yet the features I love the most are among the simplest pleasure it provides

Scala error message could be quite cryptic, but there is one which I love the most. It is caused by smallest of the errors with the message insanely far from actual cause.

Squeryl is very smart, but some time you want to alter a bit of its logic. Here is one of the methods.

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