The LogManager implementation in J2SE has some issues with dynamic logging configuration. I've implemented a Jini service that provides remote configuration control plus some other capabilities.

When you look at the complexity of web services configuration, the extent of tool involvement and the plethora of standards that are being created to solve the ever growing list of shortcommings, it is a wonder that anyone is making progress. Jini has already solved these problems!

RSS feeds are great for news feeds. They're ALMOST great for online support forums and other ongoing dialogs. This post presents a wishlist of needed features, and points to recent developments in that space.

Eamonn McManus beat me to blogging about JavaPolis on Artima. I add a little sprinkling of Trust and Sex.

My answer to YACC and Lex, the YARD parser version 1.0, is now online at SourceForge.net.

JavaPolis is great! Lots of interesting people, lots of interesting sessions. Here are my experiences, with a summary of most of the sessions I attended.

Optional static typing has long been requested as a Python feature. It's been studied in depth before (e.g. on the type-sig) but has proven too hard for even a PEP to appear. In this post I'm putting together my latest thoughts on some issues, without necessarily hoping to solve all problems.

I've been thinking about objects recently. One of the questions I've been thinking about is whether or not one can make sense of objects in a language-independent way. Herein are some reflections, and what may be the start of a series of posting on the subject...

I show how static event handlers through template function specializations can be simpler and more efficient than dynamic event handlers through function pointers.

C++ template specializations provide an elegant mechanism for implementing event-driven frameworks. This is the technique that I am using for defining semantic actions in the YARD parser. This is a reprint of an article I just posted to CodeProject.com.

I just finished the first version of the YARD (Yet Another Recursive Descent) Parser for C++, and posted it to CodeProject.com. The YARD parser is a simple regular expression parsing toolset which can operate on generic data.

Search has become the holy grail of the desktop. While search on the desktop is nothing new - Microsoft has been pursuing WinFS in fits and starts over more than the last decade - this time something is different: everyone thinks it's important.

Just what is the difference between design and architecture?

I am looking at rebuilding the Heron compiler in C++. I am surveying which platform developers would most like to see targeted whether it is native code, java virtual machines, .net, or other.

I finally got an article posted to Slashdot.org on Heron. This is a very nice boost in visibility for the language.