TKtkurien·Dec 18, 2013
I had the exact same thought after Round 7, so I started Sparkler, to bring as much of the coolness of Rails to Java as I can. See https://github.com/tobykurien/Sparkler
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Sparkler
Sparkler is an attempt to bring developer-friendliness to Java web development by using Rails/Sinatra-style Java libraries/frameworks together with Xtend to provide syntactic sugar and other fun language features (like extension methods and lambdas).
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Sparkler is an attempt to bring developer-friendliness to Java web development by using Rails/Sinatra-style Java libraries/frameworks together with Xtend to provide syntactic sugar and other fun language features (like extension methods and lambdas).
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 27 | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 29 | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 1 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2 | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 3 | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4 | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5 | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 6 | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2013-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 8 | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 9 | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 10 | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 11 | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 12 | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 13 | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 14 | 2013-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 15 | 2013-12-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16 | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17 | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18 | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |