Category Archives: Speech

The Speech Console

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Juan

During these months, we have tried to explain Speech using different strategies and metaphors, with varying results. For instance, we have defined Speech as “A process-oriented programming language” or as “A DSL for programming the business logic of social applications” … Continue reading →

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Sample Speech Apps: Twitter, Trac, Do&Follow … and Big Brothapp!

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Juan

Which kinds of applications are most suitable for Speech? How do we design a Speech app? How do we implement a Speech design using its Scala embedding? To answer these questions in a pleasant and entertaining way, we completely re-designed … Continue reading →

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Updating immutable objects in generic contexts

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Juan

Immutability is one of the hallmarks of functional design, and writing idiomatic programs in Scala highly relies on manipulating immutable objects. Now, if we don’t have mutable fields (aka vars) … how can we update objects in a convenient way? … Continue reading →

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Welcome message

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Juan

Think of information systems, Web 2.0 apps, games, e-learning, e-commerce, and the rest of e-* applications. Certainly, these application domains differ significantly in several respects, but can we find some commonalities? We do think so: they deal directly with people; … Continue reading →

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