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I'll write more about this in the near future, but for today I just wanted to make a quick announcement that my new book, "You want me to do what? A Survival Guide for New Consultants", is now available on Amazon.com. You can either click that link to get a free preview of the book on Amazon, or click the image below:

Just a quick note today that if you want to create a JavaBean class in Scala (a Scala JavaBean), you can use the @BeanProperty annotation as shown here:

Just a quick note today that I passed a little milestone on the devdaily site over the weekend. I now have over sixty Scala tutorials in my Scala programming tutorials/cookbook series.

I do a lot of work from the command line with Ant builds and similar things, but there are times I like to do things through Eclipse. Today I wanted to run my ScalaTest unit tests in Eclipse, and found this to be a straightforward task.

Besides Scala, Eclipse, and an Eclipse project, you'll need:

I haven't written much here lately because I've been very busy developing some new Android applications ("apps"). It takes time to write a really good app, but hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be able to share the apps I've written, either in the Android Marketplace ("Play") store, or some other way.

As you can tell from my blog and my other websites, I'm a Drupal developer and website integrator. What you may not know is that I'm also opening a nonprofit organization, and as I go down this road, I have a special place in my heart for nonprofit organizations.

As a result, if you're a nonprofit organization in the Boulder, Colorado area, I'll be glad to try to help you. I can provide free or low-cost Drupal training, and I can try to provide low-cost Drupal websites (though I need to think about how to do this second part in a way that will make both you and I very happy).

I just launched my new Drupal website, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary. A cool thing about this site is that the Charities and Businesses portions of the website were created almost entirely without programming.

Before reading any more of this article, take a look at the Charities page on that site, then come back to this article ...

March, 2012: My new book, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary, is now available on Amazon.com. As its name implies, the book is about the process I went through in selling my small company, and it's written in a diary format.

When you first start working with MapReduce, Hadoop, mongoDB, or any other NoSQL approach, you might need some good sample big data data sets. Fortunately those are pretty easy to find these days.

As I worked through some Hadoop and MongoDB tutorials last year, I made notes of the big data datasets I kept encountering, and jotted down their URLs. I just ran across my notes again, and thought I'd share the information.

When you first start working with Hadoop -- or try to start working with it -- you'll find that it's hard to find a good Hadoop MapReduce tutorial. In fact, the only one I've found that properly explains Hadoop is this this Yahoo tutorial.