Show Notes for October 16, 2012

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  • scala.util.Try introduced in Scala 2.10, encapsulate either a result or an exception (specifically a Throwable)
  • In Haskell, Either is a monad, with fmap and bind applying the function to the right side, return returning the right side
  • Discussed Git cherry-pick sometimes trying to be “too smart” or merging “too much”, but we don’t know exactly what the problem let alone the solution is
  • Would like to move the Orbeon documentation from Google Sites to GitHub Pages, for which we would need to convert HTML to Markdown; many tools do this, e.g. Brett Terpstra has Python code for converting HTML to Markdown

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