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Review of "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch
Michael reviewed Effective Java by Joshua Bloch and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes. This updated edition has plenty to recommend it. ... The second edition boasts 78 items compared to the first edition's 57 items. As before, the justifi...

I've Been Wondering...
...if all the things I've seen were ever real

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Worldwide Premier Book Review: Effective Java, 2d ed
I've posted my reviews on Amazon and the JavaRanch BunkHouse. As of this posting, neither review has popped, but they should soon. I tried to contain the off-color commentary and bigoted epithets as much as possible. The Bunkhouse has a 250-word limit...

Val's Blog
Lots of stuff for Web 2.0 freaks and Java addicts

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Spot the bug #1: reading characters from a stream
A very common mistake that might seem obvious (or so I hope), yet that I've seen in many places is the one where we need to read characters from any kind of input streams and we cast an int read from that input stream to a char a little bit too early....

Balaji's blog
Think Good

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Book Review: Adobe AIR for Javascript Developers
I was trying to learn Adobe AIR and was looking for some good set of learning resources. I found the book "Adobe AIR for Javascript Developers" from Oreilly by and started reading it online. A cool book, the authors have done great job on presenting th...

Lasse's weblog
Blurts on the Art of Software Development

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Planning Poker 101
The Disclaimer Ever heard of planning poker? If you haven't, continue reading. If you know what planning poker is and don't feel like reading yet another intro, jump over to The Beef. No, wait. I think you should read the whole thing. If for no ot...

In through the out door
Musings in real time

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A tour de force
This is one of the best technical books I've read in a long time. If you dabble in web development at all, you need to have a look at this book. jQuery is a Javascript framework that aims to let you think structurally and conceptually, rather than w...

David's blog
What was I thinking?

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Book Review: Murach's Java Servlets and JSPs
David O'Meara reviewed Murach's Java Servlets and JSPs by Joel Murach and Andrea Steelman and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes.

The Bear Den
Ursine rambling and grumbling

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Interview at JavaLobby/DZone re jQuery in Action
Yehuda and I were recently interviewed regarding the publishing of jQuery in Action. Click below if you are interested in reading the interview. Read the interview.

Just My Thoughts
Ilja on Software Development and more...

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A Lightweight Appreciative Retrospection
In December last year, our team had to meet a challenging business goal, and to meet it we changed quite a lot of our process. As the end of the year came close, we felt the desire to have some kind of reflection. We didn't feel the need for a fully fl...