Articles for the Programmer

Practising Best Practises in Your Software Development Process, October 2003.

Why is software developed chaotically? Why are best practises ignored? We suggest The Knowing-Doing Gap as a possible cause.

Example Usage of the uptodate target in Ant, Sep 2003.

How to use ant's uptodate task for conditional compilation and conditional distribution...

Why Digital Cameras Are Here To Stay, May 2003.

Digital cameras are not just the latest fashion in consumer electronics...

Top Tips For Apache Ant, April 2003.

Some best practices and things to avoid in ant build scripts.

Is Configuration Really Easier Than Programming?, March 2003.

We question the common assumption that configuration is easier than programming, and explain how configured systems can break some basic computing principles.

What's Good About Jython?, March 2003.

We illustrate the expressive power of Jython with an example that uses Java Swing to build a simple graphical user interface.