Here is a pattern I call the Bus Pattern. It's like the Visitor Pattern, except it's not.

In my research for the "Concurrency" chapter for Thinking in Java 4e, I've read through a lot of material. This morning, I started perusing the 3rd edition of "Java Threads" by Oaks & Wong, from O'Reilly.

The latest version of HeronFront has just been made and now compiles on GCC 3.4.1

How do differences in temperament affect your team?

Operator precedence in Heron is tricky, because any sequence of legal operator characters is a legal operator.

There is a widespread belief that garbage collection leads to automatic memory management, and that without a GC memory management is neccessarily complex. These are both false.

File this under: too many darn symbols.

My recent blog-post "Post-TDD" has generated some interesting and lively discussion. Here are some more of my thoughts and clarifications.

The latest HeronFront preview release has the beginning of introspection/reflection support.

I have made a pre-release of HeronFront which semi-successfully translates to C++ the primitives module from the standard library.

Since Heron syntax is C++ based, I am experimenting to see what happens when you drop the requirement for the this keyword.

Test Driven Development (TDD) represents the state of the art of development processes, but what's next?

A reader questioned my project-estimation technique in "Thinking in C++, Volume 1."

About 88% of an iceberg's mass is below water. How much of your class is down there too?

In languages like C++, functions return temporary stack allocated values which can be very inefficient. I am using a technique on Heron which I call transfer semantics to provide a work-around.