Changes: http://www.picocontainer.org/changes-report.html

Flamers: It's only 5 weeks old, so don't pick too many holes in it. Use our JIRA instead.

I have been a hausmate for
a while now, so I am moving as much as possible of my OSS projects to
Codehaus. Then what's more natural than moving the blog too?

My old blogs were at freeroller and blog-city. Rest in peace.

I needed a more challenging job. So I started in ThoughtWorks UK a month ago. I'm glad I did.

A couple of weeks ago a colleague at work pointed me to a tool called Simian (Similarity Analyser). It works very much in the same way as PMD's subproject CPD (Copy Paste Detector).

I've written a Maven plugin for it. Have a look at a sample report.

With a tool like this, you quickly see candidates for refactoring.