Today there was a near-total eclipse. Glasgow was overcast and the only evidence was a slight darkness. Just as we thought we were going to miss it the maximum-eclipse (or thereabouts) struggled through, pale and moon-like through a veil of cloud. Then a few minutes later we caught a brighter glimpse.

But this article is about Eclipse the Java...

There is a design and it is incredible. It exists in documents and on whiteboards and in some unit tests but mainly it exists in my head. It's a marvel of software engineering, both efficient and elegant. It is instantly updated as my understanding of the problem evolves or as the requirements change or as my original assumptions are dashed in...

Finding good programming blogs is a tricky business. Here is a list I have curated over the last couple of years.

http://blog.8thlight.com/...

There is soon to be a big change wrought on the programming community, and it is going to be driven by hardware. Processor speed is about as fast as it can be with current technology. To satisfy the need for speed, manufacturers are combining several chips into parallel processors. Multicore is the future and that means concurrent...

I've just finished week two of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. Last week was Ruby where we dived into writing Domain Specific languages and meta programming. The Ruby chapter got me thinking about how I can use mixins in Java...