stuff I write in production code these days

  def ls(folder: Folder): String = {
    List(folder.files      map (_.getAbsolutePath),
         folder.subfolders map ls).flatten mkString "\n"
  }

today's 10 things to be miserable about

Drilling in polar bear habitats
Oedipus
Nasal irrigation
Mosquito-borne diseases
Olestra
Computer crashes
The bubonic plague
Static cling
Blocks full of ugly office buildings
Suburban backyards that supply their owner's sense of self-worth

the right scala json

http://blog.knoldus.com/2012/05/18/liftweb-json-serialization-and-deserialization-using-scala/

or else I almost started writing my own formatter (umptieth time, obviously)