The same user interface guidelines that make for an outstanding software product apply to source code as well. It turns out that programmers actually have human minds after all...
There is a wealth of untapped power and productivity to be found on the Unix command line. Here are slides from a presentation I gave at Bangkok, Charlottesville, and Philadelphia open spaces conferences.
JTable and its associated classes offer a powerful and cleanly designed implementation of table functionality. The Model - View - Controller design manifests itself in several useful ways, and the TableSorter class provided by Sun makes table sorting possible with a trivial amount of effort.
