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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.

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Documentation on the Squeryl site is a bit outdated, so I decided to write a short howto on the topic.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