Binstock on Software

SOA is becoming increasingly hot and lots of developers are wondering what they need to know to implement it without getting lost in the com...

In a recent blog post , Java wiseman Norman Richards, points out that this innocent-looking line of code contains a gotcha that most IDEs (h...

The first book dedicated solely to continuous integration has just come out. I've been poring over it and have learned several things. ...

In a recent blog post , Larry O'Brien, points out that we need more varied types of tags in our code than the overworked TODO. He sugges...

Today, I was speaking with an expert at CollabNet (the Subversion folks) about a problem I have with Subversion. To my amazement, he told me...

The other day over lunch, x86 optimizing expert Rich Gerber articulated a change in his on-line searching that has also been showing up in ...

In mid-May, I decided to switch to Office 2007, fearing that I would eventually start receiving docs in the new formats and then be forced t...

In addition to my regular work, I have begun writing a monthly column for GreenerComputing.com , a site that specializes in discussing news ...

The open-source project I've been working on for months shipped its first milestone today. The project is called Platypus (for page layo...

Writing a parser represents a kind of trophy achievement in programming, in my opinion. For years, it meant using very quirky tools such as ...

While there is considerable conversation about how many unit tests to write (I have two recent posts on the topic-- here and here --based o...

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...

Because I review lots and lots of tools, I find myself going through PCs pretty quickly. It's not fair to gauge the performance of a pro...

The other day, I met with Burke Cox who heads up Stelligent , a company that specializes in helping sites set up their code-quality infrastr...

The more I use unit testing, the more I wander into areas that are more typically the province of true testers (rather than of developers). ...

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

InfoWorld magazine announced today that it would be abandoning the print publication and going to an entirely online format. This move cont...

In my current column in SD Times, I discuss characterization tests, which are an as-yet little discussed form of testing. They are unit te...

Last week I purchased a Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor , which measures the wattage used by any plugged-in device. It's already ...