Pere Villega

I've written a new blog post, a collaboration with Chaordic, that you can read in their blog: Is your LLM use compliant?.

I've written a new blog post, a collaboration with Chaordic, that you can read in their blog: Yes, Code: How AI can challenge the No-Code movement.

I've written a new blog post, a collaboration with Chaordic, that you can read in their blog: Use Wardley Maps to stop software development waste.

If you code in Scala, it is likely that you use Scala Steward to keep your dependencies up-to-date.

I've written a new blog post, a collaboration with Chaordic, that you can read in their blog: ChatGPT won't replace software engineers.

I've written a new blog post, a collaboration with Chaordic, that you can read in their blog: Why you have Shadow IT, and how to fix it.

VS Code has released tooling for remote development via ssh.

Serverless has been out there for a while, seemingly surviving the hype cycle.

Rust is not, at this stage, a new language.

This is just a short entry to make you aware of a new post at Underscore's blog.

This is just a short entry to make you aware of a new post at Underscore's blog.

This is just a short entry to make you aware of a new post (again!)

This is just a short entry to make you aware of a new post by yours truly at Underscore's blog.

Shapeless is a type class and dependent type based generic programming library for Scala.

StockFighter is a game by Patrick McKenzie (Hi Patrick!)

My previous post on Free Monad implemented a few DSL using Free Monads.

The concept of Free Monad is becoming popular, or at least I've seen plenty of mentions about it in the Scala Functional Programming community as of late.

Have you heard about AWS Lambda?

Scala Exchange 2015 is on!

Scala Exchange 2015 is on!

After hearing a lot about the benefits of using Emacs to code in Scala, I've decided to give it a go and also to document the steps to work with it, in case anyone else feels crazy enough to try this.

One of the things people love about Scala is the REPL.

Heroku has announced beta support for Docker containers running in its platform.

After a weekend wasted in bed (food poisoning sucks) I've spent some hours catching up with tech news.

Yesterday I was at QCon London thanks to Gumtree.

And Real-Time Analytics with Apache Storm it's over.

I just finished the second lesson of Real-Time Analytics with Apache Storm.

I think that most software developers have a secret desire: to build their own game.

And more work in the data science world.

As part of my efforts to understand more of the data science world, I've joined another Coursera class: Mining Massive Datasets.

Marc Andreessen famously said that Why Software Is Eating the World.

Happy new year!

I wrote another post for Gumtree developer blog.

I've been pretty busy lately at Gumtree, but I still got time to publish some posts in our Dev Team blog.

It's March and Java 8 is coming soon.

At Gumtree we are currently doing some changes to the back-end of the site.

This year I've bought a Raspberry Pi.

Another year, more technology to test :) Busy as I am in Gumtree, I've been able to test some interesting stuff.

It's been a busy couple of months.

I recently finished reading The Lean Startup, a (relatively) new approach on development and innovation on software companies.

Scala gives the developer the possibility of using Enumerations.

Mobile is the new king and HTML 5 allows developers to, at last, build once and run everywhere: tablets, phones, desktops...

ScalaDays 2013 happened this past June and the presentations are available at Parleys.

TL;DR: Clone Ansible for Play Framework to automate the task of deploying Play 2.x projects from a git repository into an EC2 instance.

Last week I was experimenting a bit with Redis and its Publish-Subscribe module.

Christmas break is over, and on a whim I started to check AngularJs.

From time to time I like to test some new functionality of Play 2.0.

Scala is growing, a lot.

Mobile browsing is becoming the norm.

It's been a while, but the domain is live again!