Binstock on Software

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...

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 ...

My interview with Donald Knuth is now posted . It's a long piece, that has some unusually interesting points, including: - why Knuth doe...

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 ...

Ruby aficionados have been working for the last few years under a serious handicapt: there was not good, up-to-date reference on their favor...

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...

Earlier this week, I was being briefed by HP about some recently released workstations. As we were moving through the slide-deck, a small it...

I've read lots of explanations of Dependency Injection or DI (formerly known as Inversion of Control) and the associated Hollywood Princ...

In presentations at Infoworld 's Virtualization Summits ( slides here ), I have repeatedly discussed how virtualization can prevent malw...

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...

JetBrains, the folks behind many well-loved dev tools (such as IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper ) have announced that TeamCity 3.0 , the just-re...