Eric's Ramblings

This morning, I needed to install Ruby 1.9.3 on my Ubuntu 11.10 system, but it took a little bit of trial and error. I did get it working, ...

Are you a developer? Testing framework got you down? Have you had: Difficulty concentrating, remembering details, and making decisions? ...

This is part 4 of a series on turning functional code into great code. If you haven't read part 1 , part 2 or part 3 , go ahead and do...

Reading through several posts on this blog, I've realized that they ramble on and on (hence the title of the blog...) and are generally ...

Hello, and welcome back! This is part 3 of an ongoing series on turning functional code into great code. If you haven't read part 1 o...

Welcome! This post is part of a series; if you missed Part 1 , go ahead and read it. Today, we're going to focus on how the StylesheetC...

I recently came into contact with an eager young developer with a year or two of work experience, who showed me his code and asked me how to...

Recently I had a situation where I needed to implement Joshua Bloch's Builder pattern (see Effective Java , item 2) over a hierarchy of ...