Every once in a while, a java programmer wonders how do I return multiple values from my method? Perl and lisp can return lists, but java is constrained to return just one object. Here’s how that limitation can be overcome. Note that this requires a Java 5 implementation.
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After using iCalendar to publish and subscribe to various calendars from various computers, I starting thinking about RSS. Although RSS was originally designed to share news headlines between web sites, it quickly became clear that you can combine RSS feeds and newsreader software to solve unrelated software problems, hence the great explosion of RSS use that has nothing to do with ‘news’. iCalendar is going to be the same. (more…)

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Designing Interfaces is a valuable source-book of modern user-interface design, whose pattern approach transcends the operating system-specific references of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Designing Interfaces is much less technology-specific than most O’Reilly books, and replaces the jargon of Human-Computer Interaction with clear language and well-chosen examples. This means that instead of targeting a specific breed of alpha geeks, this book has wide appeal for software developers. (more…)

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Why is it that some people have no problems taking their thoughts and putting them into writing? I wish I was one of these persons, I wish I could write like Joel.

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