It appears that I may have been doing the right thing in putting together Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design . Expertise is grown through "effortful study" of the material. Experts search through their long-term memory for applicable patterns, based on their study.

The idea of many exercises, each exposing a piece …

Control Break Reporting is a design pattern that has been around since the earliest …

I like Python for exploring unknown data [One More Cool Thing About Python ].

Anthony B. Coates [Homepage ] notes "I tried Python for a while for similar reasons. However, in my case I was a bit put off by the need to learn a another library API, which is not an …

PJHyett asks

Why is it that selling points of newer langauges are features that Lisp had decades ago? Java has garbage collection, Ruby has closures, Perl is dynamically typed, etc. What the hell have we been doing this whole time besides reinventing the wheel?

Call me lazy, but I want …