Even though it hurts my brain a little bit, learning Scala has been a pleasurable part of my job lately. It definitely isn’t for the faint-hearted but it has taught me a lot about thinking precisely about the topics of immutability and shared state. The functional mindset forces you to think mainly about input and output of functions and this training, I feel, makes me a better programmer even when programming in a language other than Scala.

Not quite 4 years ago I left university after having graduated with a degree in computer science. I did fairly well on my final dissertation and have been meaning to publish it for quite some time but never actually came round to it.

I keep forgetting and regoogling this and apparently it isn’t documented anywhere I could find it, so I’m going to write it down hoping that Google will help spread the word.

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Yesterday I gave a talk at Cocoaheads Berlin, which is the iOS/OS X developers user group here. The talk was titled “CocoaPods - Sane library management for Xcode”.