Why Scala Can Help You to Build a More Reliable Service

Simple Cloud Identity Management Scala Implementation ( https://github.com/soleo/scim-rest ) I’ve been hunting for a language to build applications which should be easy to be deployed, managed and tested for quite a while. Well, coming from a C/C++ background, transferring to Java in grad school, then working mainly with PHP, JavaScript and Objective-C in various applications for my current position, it almost made me think that there is no big difference among all programming languages....

February 3, 2016 · 4 min · Xinjiang Shao

HowdyBarber: A scripting way to check my barber’s availability

I don’t go to a really fancy barbershop to get my hair cut, but my current barber’s schedule filled up so quickly that I have to check regularly to make appointments. I really don’t want to waste my time on opening tabs in chrome and login to check their schedule one by one. I came up with a few options to do the checking. Use a headless library like PhantomJS to acting as myself to do the clicking and parsing....

October 12, 2015 · 3 min · Xinjiang Shao