This week, we're delighted to have Riyad Kalla helping to answer questions about the MyEclipse IDE. He will hang out in the IDEs, Version Control and other tools forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 31st 2007 and will end on Friday, August 3rd 2007.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the software provided by the publisher, MyEclipse LLC.

Please see the promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

This week, we're delighted to have Alexei White & Andre Charland helping to answer questions about their new book Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications. They will hang out in the HTML and JavaScript forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 23rd 2007 and will end on Friday, July 27th 2007.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Prentice Hall.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Jeanne reviewed Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.

"Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns" is a valuable reference for using CSS on your website. ... The companion website lets you play with each pattern. In summary: buy this book!

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

Ulf reviewed Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz and gave it 8 out of 10 horseshoes.

[The book] explains not just the features of the Java virtual machine and the class libraries that help implement concurrent applications, but also serves as an introduction to the problems arising in multi-threaded code in general. ... All concepts are explained with plenty of code examples that show what is and what isn't thread-safe. ... Everyone not having had the benefit of CS 401 "Issues in Concurrency" will get a lot out of this book. And those who did will learn how to properly implement concurrent applications in Java.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

A rancher is thrown into the cold water of having to interview job applicants, and wonders what others have found to be useful techniques. Members chime in with recipes of their secret sauce, experience from the trenches, and opinions on the balance of asking technical vs. personality questions in this thread in the Jobs Discussion forum.

Jason reviewed Release It! by Michael Nygard and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes.

Nygard talks about all the things that can and will go wrong in the finely crafted software we were sure was ready for production. "Release It!" provides many first hand accounts to illustrate his points, ... and these stories serve as excellent motivators. The Pragmatic Programmers have a few "must read" books and "Release It!" is another one.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.