In recent years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the number of languages used in mainstream projects. In particular, languages which run on the JVM or CLR have become quite popular (probably because sane people hate dealing with x86 assembly). Naturally, such languages prefer to interoperate with other languages built on these core platforms, […]
As I have previously written, I have recently been spending some time experimenting with various aspects of Scala, including some of the frameworks which have become available. One of the frameworks I have had the privilege of using is the somewhat unassumingly-titled Specs, and implementation of the behavior-driven development methodology in Scala.
Specs takes full advantage […]
This is definitely old news by now (in fact, almost a month old), but I’m just now discovering it myself so I decided to share. The jEdit project is renowned for two things:
Marvelous support for every language under the sun
Eye-bleedingly bad UI design
It’s always been possible to hack yourself an improved version without too much […]
I’m not entirely sure what these metrics mean, but they give me a warm feeling inside.
Analyzed classes: 136
Excellent classes (.): 121 89.0%
Good classes (=): 9 6.6%
Needs work classes (@): […]
As some of you may know, I’ve been following the Buildr project with a fair degree of interest of late. Just last week, Assaf announced their first release as an Apache project: Buildr 1.3.0. Being of the inquisitive bend, I decided that this would be an excellent time to reevaluate its suitability for use in […]