Great Books for Becoming a Better Developer

You want to become an even better developer? Then you must read these books. If you have already read them. Read them again.
Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software: This is the standard book on patterns and patterns are an extremely important piece of vocabulary for every developer. Not to impress coworkers with your knowledge, [...]

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3 Books You Should Read When You Want to Go Agile

If you haven’t switched to an agile approach to software development yet, you probably should. But be warned. Agile is not about daily stand ups in the morning. It also isn’t about renaming your “work break down structure” into “backlog”. Going agile requires changes deep in the internals of your team and/or in your company, [...]

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The Question isn’t what is Going on at Oracle or SUN

Since SUN was bought by Oracle, many people are speculating what is going on at Oracle, and how this will affect the future of Java. When you are relying heavily on java for your daily work, it is obviously extremely interesting, what is going to happen with java. At least I don’t want to become [...]

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