I've just finished reading "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter (Addison Wesley, 2005).

The slides and audio from my presentation at the 2005 Python conference are now available.

Here, I describe an interpreted subset of Heron called HeronScript and I talk a bit about my short and long term plans.

Okay this came from a little idea I had last night for Neon, and from a bit of playing around with those ideas - dependency injection from Jini configuration files.

An interesting and funny way of describing management lessons.

Ian Bicking creates the first reasonable analysis (that I know of) between the two languages.

While experimenting to find a good introductory exercise for the PriorityQueue class, I discovered several anomalous results which I think produce a higher-order exercise in library design.

Heron is going to need a killer-app if it has any hope of surviving. I may have found one ... teaching programming.

Chuck Allison stated in his latest article the unfortunate fact: "C++ novices don't learn templates, let alone CRTP, in their first week". This represents one of the big problems with how C++ is taught to novices.

Automating the delegation of implementation of an interface to an expression.

A rather unpleasant name, but a very useful pattern.

C++ templates enable a powerful variant of the Adapter Pattern, which I call the Generic Adapter Pattern. I think it helps illustrate how OO design patterns go together well with generic programming techniques.

A lighthearted comparison of how successful fiction authors and language designers can accidentally paint themselves into a corner in their first work.

Inspired by Kevlin Henney's boost::any variant type I have written a high performance alternative called cdiggins::any.

Mike Levin has posted another audio interview with me, which we recorded yesterday using Skype. It's about an hour long.