This is my first post to the programmer's symposium, but here goes nothing: I want to make a java app that basically does two things: 1. Takes the Contents of a directory of my choosing and indexes ...

One of our biggest challenges as software developers is organizing our code so that it is easier to extend and maintain. The Command pattern helps us do that by encapsulating all the data required to ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...

just remember, OS X is no different than any other UNIX system in this regard (i.e., command line java stuff). if you get into GUI stuff, it's even better than anything.. the inventor of java, james ...