Good user interface design is one of the most poorly taught disciplines in software education. Such poor foundations follow programmers all the way to their positions of leadership in the industry, and the Agile Manifesto authors are no exception. Here, I post my thoughts on a recent posting in Håkan Reis' 'blog, whose views struck a chord with me.

Looking for your best Fs, Fs, Fs, Fs and Fs regarding everyone's favourite (to use, or to moan about) language, C++. If you've got 'em, let me have 'em. The worst that can happen is you'll get a mention in the new book ...

After a prolongued hiatus from public writing activities (articles, blogs, books) throughout 2006, I'm about to stage a comeback. For those with nothing to do with the next 120 seconds, here's an explanation of why, and what you can expect in the coming months.

This is just to let everyone know that I have started my own separate blog on my home page.

For a long while I didn't fully grasp the funky syntax of typed functional languages like ML and Haskell, until I realized a fundamental difference between many typed functional languages and common imperative languages.

I've recently discovered the Google custom search engine service (the so-called Google co-op) and I've used it to build a search engine service dedicated to programming languages.

So I am currently studying the language of "serious" language researchers in order to write a paper about Cat, and the book "Types and Programming Languages" by Benjamin Pierce has turned out to be a huge boon!

Having spent some more time trying to explain Cat, a stack based functional language, I came to an interesting realization: virtually everything could be explained in terms of tuples.

I've posted an updated version of the Cat manual with a generalized description of the type inference algorithm used in Cat. This post contains an excerpt of the type inference algorithm description.

I've recently posted the Cat source code to CodeProject.com with a reasonably detailed description of the design and implementation.

In a recent series of conversations, Dan North, Martin Fowler, and Marc McNeill explore what is possibly the fifth Agile principle: valuing outcomes over features. They also discuss the differences between use-cases, user journeys, and features.

I've just posted a fairly in depth Cat tutorial, and the Cat version 0.9.4 ... it's been a long day.

I've posted a list of the built-in atomic functions for the most recent version (0.9.3) of the Cat language.

Many people think that inner classes in Java could be better; this Blog presents a new syntax that emphasizes Clarity, Consistency, and Conciseness (in that order!). An example usage is: withLock lock, method { out.println "Hello" };

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, Cat is quickly reaching a stable 1.0 release.