There are many good resources on using events and implementing event listeners. Unfortunately, there are nearly as many resources that incorrectly or inefficiently implement event generators. These implementations introduce subtle nondeterministic errors, execute slowly, and/or fill th...

Let me begin with a philosophical rant. There is a motto from scientific computing that carries over to many areas of computer science: The gains made by better algorithms almost always outstrip the gains from better hardware.

Any business-savvy engineer knows that algorithm improvements come at a price: the engineer's time. But what about asking programmers to be a little more lazy? Warren MacEvoy chews over some of the technology issues of the day and offers his own suggestions.

The Beanshell preprocessor, or BPP for short, is intended to be a convenient and powerful preprocessing tool for Java developers. It's convenient because the preprocessor is based on Beanshell, which is essentially interpreted Java. This means that Java or Beanshell programmers can qui...