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1. Fuddled API, Verbose Workaround January 2010

   I've started writing some Scala applications (including one atop the Lift web framework) to access Unfuddle's API recently. I've mainly been building daily burndown reports for my team at Treehouse Agency. I've run into a few issues with API methods not working as advertised, and Unfuddle's been pretty good about fixing most of them.

   The problem I've been experiencing as of January 5th is that Unfuddle has subtly broken authentication for client libraries that (wisely) wait for a 401 error with an accompanying WWW-Authenticate: Basic header before sending credentials. (Namely, Unfuddle's API stopped sending a WWW-Authenticate header altogether.) If need be, you can force most HTTP client libraries to send authentication on every request in one way or another, and that's what I had to do tonight with the excellent Databinder Dispatch library.

2. Python to Scala 2.7: Check Your Spelling November 2009

   Last time out, I talked about the benefits of Scala, and why I'm looking at Scala and Lift.

   In that spirit, I spent some time last weekend converting Peter Norvig's simple Python spell-checker to Scala. I didn't do this conversion alone; I got some great answers from Daniel Sobral, Daniel Spiewak and finally David Winslow on Stack Overflow. David provided the answer I needed for the best way to implement the matching function in Scala 2.7.

3. Scala, Lift, and the Future November 2009

   I've been spending a decent amount of my after-hours time investigating a combination that I think will be part of the future of web programming: the Scala programming language, and the Lift web framework on top of it.

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