My Roving Eye

After my experience with Groovy and Grails, I’ve been thinking about what to do next. I’ve got an idea for an iPhone application, a Facebook game idea to research, and a Flash game concept I’d like to flesh out. While wandering about the internet to help me decide on what to work on, I came across the blog “ONE DIV ZERO” by James Iry. He’s a programmer and does a lot of work with Scala and he really knows his stuff. Some of the specifics are over my head at this point, but reading through his posts has been an education. His post “Erlang Style Actors Are All About Shared State” was awesome. He has me seriously thinking about diving into Scala. Scala also has an associated web framework called Lift. Its creator, David Pollak, has a great post entitled “Web Framework Manifesto.” Having bright guys like them in a community is a real plus.