I recently came across a post entitled “Why I love everything you hate about Java”. I love it. I would say that the Decorator Pattern is an important pattern in CS for modularity. In the comments there is a lot of to and fro from people, but I think I…

I was discussing Omniscient Debuggers recently with someone at an LJC meetup. Omniscient debuggers drastically reduce the time needed to debug software by giving the programmer complete freedom with respect to time: they permit to step forward and backward, and to immediately answer questions like “when was this variable assigned…

So I’m a fan of the concept of node.js, but am still unconvinced of its maturity. The big thing I am worried about is its garbage collection, which is comparable to very old Java GC in that it is a “stop-the-world” style GC, where all execution is paused while GC…