I am finishing up a rather large application that needs some JMX management capabilities. I've got a lot of classes that need to be MBean enabled, and I really don't want to go through and change them to inherit from StandardMBean.

There are two kinds of software experience you want for your end users - Invisibility and Smile on My Face.

I haven't been posting as much at Artima lately, but I have been posting a fair amount of questions and ideas at Lambda-the-Ultimate.org.

I am looking to name a new operation in the Cat programming language.

As modern IDEs are becoming larger, IDE projects cope with entropy by creating versions of their tools aimed at specialized developer communities, for instance, around popular enterprise frameworks. What does the segmentation of the IDE market place along the lines of developer micro-communities say about the future of IDEs?

This week, a number of Python developers (core and otherwise) and some Googlers got together in Mountain View and New York for a four-day Python and Python-3000 (Py3k) development sprint. Here's what we've done.

Guido kills <> in Python 3000. I am sad.

In Part I, I related a resurgence in interest in multi-paradigm design about thirteen years after its first appearance. In this 'blog I consider what such developments portend for curriculum design and, in fact, the basic content of any CS program.

The recent proposal to add closures to Java brought up some questions for me. How much more productive would I be with closures in Java? How much more fun would I have?

There is a debate raging at the Lambda-the-Ultimate.com site about closures in Java. Here's my two cents on the subject.

Setting CLASSPATH for directories and jars driving you crazy? I finally decided to do something about it.

X-develop is an unknown Java IDE that allows for very agile development patterns without getting in the way. This blog post illustrates a unique approach called 'fuzzy' or 'freeform' refactoring that is enabled by a unique X-develop featured called 'instant project-wide on-the-fly error checking'.

Two distinct approaches to Ajax application development emerged in recent years, each extending previous architecture models. As the two seem incompatible, you will need to make a choice.

Tonight we'll be upgrading the hardware that serves up Artima. In the future the site should scale better under heavy load, but tonight there will be some outage. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.

I am playing with the idea of allowing types to pushed onto the stack in the Cat language. Here are my ruminations on the subject