Creating client-side Java applications just got a whole lot easier.

I've just finished reading Jeffrey Zeldman's book "Designing with Web Standards" (New Riders 2003), and it has answered a number of questions and dashed a fair number of my hopes for actual standard standards in the near future.

Answer to the question: "What is Testivus' wisdom concerning the proper percentage of test coverage?"

The most interesting part of this is not the tool -- although that was fun to create -- but the process of letting go that allowed me to build it.

"Buy Now" buttons are a great invention because they dramatically simplify sales via the web. But they only solve part of the problem.

Some good advice on developer and unit testing, packaged as cryptic bits of ancient Eastern wisdom in the hope of getting your attention.

The Cat programming language version 0.11 has just been released. I thought I'd take a moment to talk a bit about what Cat is all about.

Old: Seller pays. New: Buyer pays.

I finally got around to setting up Google checkout for an upcoming conference. It rocks!

Weblogs let individuals publish their thoughts. Wiki pages let people edit each others writing. But there is as yet nothing that really helps to carry on a far-reaching design discussion in cyberspace. We need such a tool for collaborative design and decision making.

There is a raging debate about OSGi and Jini, yet again. Which isn't necessary or helpful. The two technologies are very different applications of similar design philosophies, and should not be seen as competitors.

There are at least 4 inner class/closure proposals for Java 7 and it is hard to compare them because they use different terms and different syntax for similar concepts. This post makes the comparison easier by seperating concerns.

Robert McIntosh wrote a thought-provoking piece on designing a scalable Web application without a database. I share three reasons why such a notion deserves some merit.

The alpha release of Apollo generated both excitement and healthy skepticism about Adobe's new client-side runtime. I decided to take a first-hand look at Apollo and summarize some of my findings in this blog post.

Would you like to know how to write an interpreter? Many programmers have asked me the question, so I wrote a short article explaining how the Cat interpreter works in detail.