Author: stanley
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JavaOne 2005: Wrap Up
I did not attend JavaOne this year (I wish). Eric Armstrong, blogger at Aritma.com, did. Not only did he attend the conference, he put together a very good blog entry about the cool stuff that is happening in the Java world, as well as in the software world. He does a very nice job. I…
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Soft-Eng World in June 2005
I’ve been saving a lot of links in my Bloglines account. It’s time to share some of the best reads of the last couple of weeks. Enjoy. LearningThis is an article from the Pragmatic Programmers that is dear to me. It is about learning. A great article.[Hunt and Thomas] Designing Learning (There is also a…
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Rapid J2EE Development by Monnox
In one sentence, this book is an overview of Java open-source projects that complement the development cycle. It is a very good overview, actually. Alan Mannox packs a lot of good advice on good development techniques. He mixes it up with a good pragmatic approach. The author has a very good way of writing. He’s…
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Tate on Developers
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2005 InfoWorld Compensation Survey
We’re making more money in 2005 than in 2004. A quarter of us are unhappy with our jobs. We are scared of offshoring. But overall, things have turned around for the better: more opportunities, rising pay, less competition. You’ll find this and other details in this well-written report on InfoWorld. 2005 Compensation Survey by InfoWorld
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Shortage of IT Workers?
Not now, of course. But in a couple of years, will there be a shortage of IT professionals? It’s hard to say. It definetely doesn’t look (and feel) like that right now. There are still a lot of IT guys unemployed. And even though there’s been a pickup in jobs recently, it is still fairly…
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Monnox on Software Engineer
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My Book List
I modified my book lists a little… First, I created a new category: Book List. I’ll post each book that I finished reading in there. If it is a book I recommend, I’ll post it in both categories. My Book List The books that I recommend, a subset of this list, are located here. In…
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Refactoring To Patterns by Kerievsky
This book had such a potential… I thought this was going to be another classic (check Amazon.com reviews). But because of the flows it contains, it is just an OK book. The over-complicated code just ruins this superb piece of work (as another Amazon.com reviewer puts it). This book is a lot better than Holub…
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