In addition to macro expansion Apparat has now inline expansion as well. It works nearly the same way as macro expansion but without most of its limitations. To define a class for inline usage it must extend apparat.inline.Inlined and all its methods must be static. However the cool thing is that you can also return [...]
Apparat is now available using the Scala 2.8-RC2 build. You can find appropriate downloads now on Google Code by searching for the Scala version of your choice. 7z compression on OS X should work now as well.
Apparat has another new feature called Macro Expansion. I talked about this with Nico Zimmermann at FFK in Cologne. Nico was using TDSI for a project but he was not very satisfied with it because you have to inline all inverse-square root tricks manually. This is why Apparat has now macro expansion. I am actually [...]
Apparat has a great new feature that allows you to create even smaller files. Basic SWF files are compressed using Java’s standard java.util.zip.Deflater class. This is perfectly fine. And I would even go with no compression at all during development. However when deploying you can spend some extra time compressing your SWF files with the [...]
We have finally released the first version of the Audiotool. I am very thankful for all the kind tweets and happy that our work is now available to the public. However the current version is named Firestarter for a reason. What you see online is just the tip of the iceberg. I can not wait [...]