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I'm Learning jQuery
I’ve just starting learning and using it, but I can already say: wow! It’ssome powerful stuff. I’ll go even further, if you are doing any webdevelopment, whether you work on front or backend, you should learn theframework. It will make you a better developer and make your lifeeasier. Plus, it’s arguably the most popular webdev…
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stylin' with CSS
I looked at this book over at B&N and it got me hooked. Especially the chapter on how to do some basic page layout. I could not believe how simple it could be! The author really got me very interested and that eventually led to me buying this book. I’m glad I did. 🙂 If…
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Core JavaServer Faces
One Minute ReviewPositives* Lot of examples — with complete source code* Excellent writing style* Focus on helping the reader Negatives* Some chapters deviate from others: only snippets of code and no complete examples SummaryIf you want to learn JavaServer Faces (JSF), this is the book to learn it from! What is the best technique to…
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CSS Notes: Layouts
I’m reading an excellent book on CSS – Stylin’ with CSS (highly recommended). I finished reading roughly half of it and I’d like to summarize some of the things I learned. CSS LayoutsI am used to creating page layouts with HTML tables. It’s easy to do and you can get any layout you want. But…
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10 Ways to "Stay on Top"
If you consider yourself a good programmer, great! But is this going to hold true, two years, five years from now? If you are not going to learn new things, I can safely say that you’re going to be “out of date.” If you want to stay still, you have to continue moving: being a…
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Criteria for good design
Uncle Bob listed a few Design smells — the odors of rotting software in his book Agile Software Development. Take the inverse of that and what do you get? Criteria for good design — that’s the approach that the author of the book PHP in Action took. Here are the characteristics of good design. Flexibility…
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Spring in Action
One Minute ReviewPositives* Excellent overview of Spring (good coverage)* Not too detailed; not too light* Excellent writing style Negatives* Feels lengthy* Too pro-spring PositivesWhat’s not to like? I think this is an excellent resource for the Spring Framework. I liked it as a refresher for some of the Spring 2.0 features, but I’m also going…
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Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers
Ben Watson, whose blog I just came across, lists the following Top 5 Attributes… Humility Love of Learning Detail-orientedness Adaptability Passion I think this is a very good list. I think effective programmers are humble. Why? Because you have to be able to work well with others. Just from my experience, it’s hard to work…
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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
One Minute ReviewPositives* Excellent coverage of EJB technologies* Thorough coverage of Java Persistence* Focuses on doing best-practice development* Full of examples Negatives* Explanation on how to create an external client not clear SummaryThis is an excellent book on a simplified (still overcomplicated) EJB 3.0 technology. I had high hopes for this book and for the…
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Test Driven
One Minute ReviewPositives* Excellent coverage of Test Driven development* Covers many development best practices* Excellent writing style Negatives* Could be more concise SummaryThis is an excellent book on TDD — I think it’s the best book on the subject. At first, I thought this book is going to be just a review of the commonly…
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