In Pursuit of Elegance

I’ve always liked and been fascinated by the concept of elegance. One of my favourite programming aphorisms comes from Richard A. O’Keefe: elegance is not optional. So I enjoyed reading...

What exponential really means

Beautiful illustration of the power of exponential series: Machine with Concrete from Arthur Ganson, by way of Alan Rorie’s blog.

m2Eclipse and JUnit4: 'no tests found' - solved

Just a quick note: I have a project in Eclipse which is maven-based, and generated initially using the “new maven project” wizard in Eclipse. I’m using JUnit 4.5 for the...

Eclipse/maven: solution to cannot nest folders problem

I had the following problem with Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) and m2Eclipse 0.9.8, but from searching I believe that it occurs with other combinations as well. Situation: I have a maven-ized...

Amazon mp3 store: Linux kudos

Heh, just bought an mp3 album from Amazon (having discovered Synaesthesia on last.fm), and expected the usual “Linux? Sorry, is that Windows or Mac?” trouble. Was very pleasantly surprised to...