Eric Freeman's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=erictfree Artima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Excerpt: Beyond Lifestreams, the inevitable demise of the Desktop Metaphor http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=84331 Search has become the holy grail of the desktop. While search on the desktop is nothing new - Microsoft has been pursuing WinFS in fits and starts over more than the last decade - but this time something is different: everyone thinks it's important. Are Weblogs an Incarnation of Lifestreams? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=82154 An interesting (old) post in Artima's Java Buzz titled "Are Weblogs an Incarnation of Lifestreams?" by Hugo Pinto asks if Weblogs are the first widely-adopted incarnation of LifeStreams? As it happens I'm finishing up a historical piece on Lifestreams that is going to be published by MIT Press and I've been asking myself that very question. Announcing Head First Design Patterns http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=79646 Not your father's Design Patterns book, Head First Design Patterns provides a unique learning guide to Design Patterns and OO design.