Binstock on Software

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...

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

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...

One of the constant challenges I have as a Java developer is keeping up with the numerous good FOSS dev tools. I no sooner start testing one...

Before getting into my concerns about whether unit testing's popularity has peaked, let me state that I think unit testing is the most ...

In The ThoughtWorks Anthology a new book from the Pragmatic Programmers, there is a fascinating essay called “Object Calisthenics” by Jeff ...

I just got back from the CITcon conference , which is the thrice-yearly confab of agile developers who use continuous integration (the ...

As many of you know, I have spent much of my free time during the last 24 months working on an open-source project called Platypus . The pro...

For many years--decades actually--I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Pla...

Java developers suddenly have a wealth of choices when it comes to dynamic languages that run on the JVM. There's JavaFX , which Sun ann...

How do you write unit tests to exercise private functions and check on private variables? For my projects, I have relied on a technique of a...

My review of three leading enterprise Java IDEs appeared in later March in InfoWorld. I've received some nice comments on the piece an...