This post arose out of a curiosity I had with regards to database connection/session management while using Slick, but I think what I ended up learning is uesful in a general sense.

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One of the things I love about Scala is how you can write things in so many different ways. Part of the fun is finding the best-looking way to accomplish a task. In this post, I take a big, ugly method with several logical branches and levels of nested conditions, and try to make it as pretty as I can. My quest brings me through call-by-name blocks all the way into some custom functional data structures and ‘for comprehensions’, leading to what I think is a pretty successful ‘beautification’.

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It’s shiny and new again!

After allowing my blog to remain unchanged for over a year, I’ve finally updated its format, look, and even hosting!

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