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Documentation on the Squeryl site is a bit outdated, so I decided to write a short howto on the topic.

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