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I like to test the HTTP portion of the RESTful web services I build in isolation. This is because, in the languages I use (Java, Scala), mos...

I've blogged previously about testing messages sent back to the sender and to a child actor . The final common scenario I come across i...

Recently I was writing integration tests for a library that returned futures. I wanted simple synchronous tests. Fortunately in the latest...

I previously blogged about testing messages sent back to the sender . Another common scenario is testing that an actor sends the correct mes...

A common pattern when using actors is for actor A to send a message to Actor B and then for Actor B to send a message back. This can be te...

Update your apt source list with the following: sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list #Add at the bottom deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassan...

I posted some time ago about installing Cassandra on Mac OSX. Admittedly I generally use Linux when dealing with Cassandra but have recently...