Archive for October, 2011

Running Scala on Android

For my little pet project Akka-Mobile I need to run Scala on Android. In theory this is dead simple. However in practice there are some issues. When you simply add the Scala runtime library to an Android project you will get an error during dexing. The reason is that the Scala runtime library is just [...]

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Athena: Goddess of War

Shortly after the events of Iris a new thread arises. South Korea is developing a new generation of nuclear reactors which outperform existing ones by an order of magnitudes. However this development in threatened by terrorists. Especially the brain behind the reactor Dr. Kwon is in danger. The job of NTS (National Anti-Terror Service) is [...]

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200 Posts, Yeah!

Yeah, this my 200th blog post. Back when I started this blog back in 2007 I certainly didn’t anticipate that it will survive this long. However I’m still posting, on average around 4 posts a month. I’m sooo proud of myself =). My Favorite Posts First let’s take a look at the past. Here are [...]

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Akka-Mobile: The Idea

What is Akka-Mobile? Right now it’s an idea. It’s my semester term project at the University of Applied Science in Rapperswil. In this blog post I give a short overview of the idea. What is Akka? Akka is a framework for Scala (and also Java) to bring Erlang style actors (and tons of other things) [...]

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