What are Agile Methods really all about? Is it some new humanistic view of software development? Is it a social revolution? Or is it just plain good business? This blog makes the case for the latter.

The engineer – with that harried, vaguely irritated yet highly competent demeanor we all wear so well – ducks from the cameras like a common CEO or accountant as he enters the courthouse to defend his team’s code from critical errors and a security hole that festered in the absence of proper state-required methodology.

The September issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published. Includes an article on "Timers and audio performance".

I've noticed a lot of wrong statements about how java source files must be in a directory tree mirroring the package name. In fact, eclipse gets it wrong, and the developers refuse to fix it!

I've been troubled by some recent discussions about C# and Java language features. Most people in the discussions seem to lean towards making methods non-virtual by default. Let's reconsider that.

I have put together several blogs over the past several months since JavaOne. I have neglected to post these here, but will now. There is some disjoint discussion in these. Hopefully I've made my thoughts visible...

I started working on this text several months ago after attending JavaOne. I originally had many disjoint topics wound into this, and tried to separate them into some other blogs. Hopefully you can make sense of the text here.

Are you tired of new Languages... Yet?

Jim Coplien now has a teaching job, but he's saying that it's about time we get rid of classes. Here's my take on why he may just be on to something.

Some highlights from the Agile Keynote at SD Best Practices

Apple has touted the Mac OS X as The Best Platform For Java Development. In this article, I argue that Apple's marketing hype greatly distorts reality, and that Java developers should focus on Linux instead.

If you read Computer Science text books you might imagine external program documentation actually exists. Yet, when I asked many of my colleagues if they had ever had such documentation throughout a project's life cycle, they laughed a bit uncomfortably and said, "well, no, not really." What's going on here?

It's high time we all face up to reality. The network is and will remain "heteregenous". In spite of the sincere efforts of vendors and standards organizations to homogenize the network, the networks insists that it is indeed heteregenous.

Exploring how first component-oriented and now service-oriented technologies reached ubiquitous mainstream success... while we're busy designing more interesting but possibly less broadly-embraceable manifestations of the same.

Governments around the world are discussing laws and policies to promote the use of free software. It seems that most of the time this debate ignores the problem of developing applications inside the government.