Binstock on Software

 Jacobin at the 3-year Mark A Brief Look at the History The project to build a JVM with go, Jacobin , has just reached its third anniversary...

This month, the Jacobin JVM project reaches the 30-month milestone, with release 0.4.0. Because for the last six months Richard Elkins ( @t...

Jacobin (a JVM written entirely in Go) just reached its 2-year anniversary. Since our 18-month update , a lot has happened. We have: Added ...

Earlier this month, the Jacobin JVM project (a JVM written in Go) reached its 18-month milestone. Since our post at the 12-month mark, we ha...

 After 12 months, Jacobin, the more than minimalist JVM written in Go, has come quite far. Presently, it can execute simple Java classes and...

After nine months, Jacobin has been steadily moving forward. The biggest news of this quarter is that Spencer Uresk ( @suresk on Twitter an...

After six months, Jacobin can now execute many of the most common bytecode instructions. Simple classes that use for-loops, call methods tha...

Executing methods is the principal activity of the JVM. There are many steps involved in finding, loading, executing methods correctly. The ...

Development on Jacobin , the JVM written in go that supports Java 11, has been proceeding rapidly. In the 100 days since the beginning of th...

Ever since I started out in programming, I've wanted to undertake a programming project that was developed with the rigorous approach us...

Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley I have reviewed many books on this website and I have gone through numerous others as par...

I use a variety of PDF tools in my editorial work. I frequently create, mark up, manipulate, and combine PDFs. In addition, I contribute to ...

The proliferation of metrics in software development threatens to take important quantitative measures and bury them beneath an avalanche of...

During the last 12-18 months, TDD has broken into the mainstream, it seems. And now, we're starting to see some backlash, as its limitat...

InformIT.com has posted my interview with Alexander Stepanov (of STL fame) and his co-author Paul McJones . Their just-released book, Ele...

I have been using Groovy to write functional tests for Platypus , the open-source typesetting project I work on. I am likely to make Groovy...

I have recently been playing with Fan , a programming language that reminds me a lot of Groovy, but has additional capabilities, such as act...

According to a recent HP poster, these were the rules in Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard's famous garage: Believe you can change the world...

I have gone through "Uncle Bob" Martin's new book, Clean Code, which is a lenthy presentation of rules that will help Java dev...

The most enduringly popular post on this blog is Perfecting OO's Small Classes and Short Methods , which presents a short series of stri...

Last week, Jeff Fredrick and I did a day-long code review of Platypus . We used a pair-programming approach, with Jeff driving and I helpin...