How-Tos

5 ways to make underemployment work for you

Don’t let pride get in the way. Pursuing jobs that you’re overqualified for can be the pathway to a new career

Responsive web design with Google Web Toolkit

Patterns for building mobile-enabled web applications

Customizing cell rendering

Free and cheap ways to learn about network administration

How-to: Get started with MariaDB

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MariaDB database server and phpMyAdmin on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu

Stability patterns applied in a RESTful architecture

Five ways to stabilize network behavior in distributed systems

Top 10 tips for Windows 10

You need to know these behind-the-scenes tricks to get the most out of the current Windows Technical Preview

How to choose the right Linux distro

RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSuse have far more similarities than differences, but choosing the wrong one for the job can make life much harder

ChoiceFormat: Numeric range formatting

Customize the formatting of numeric ranges with ChoiceFormat patterns for arrays, strings, and more

Java 101: The essential Java language features tour, Part 5

Four more small-change language features introduced in Project Coin

IT resume makeover: How (and when) to break the rules

The ironclad rule of resume writing is to highlight your career in reverse chronological order – all the time, every time, right? Wrong. Resume expert Donald Burns explains why

10 more do’s and don’ts for faster SQL queries

Follow these tried-and-true techniques to improving both the speed and concurrency of your dawdling database

Autoboxing, Unboxing, and NoSuchMethodError

An explanation and workaround for the Java NoSuchMethodError

Open source Java projects: Spring Batch

Reading and writing CSV files with Spring Batch and MySQL

Do Twitter analysis the easy way with MongoDB

For simple Twitter analysis, try MongoDB's aggregation framework

The ultimate superclass, Part 3

Java 101: The essential Java language features tour, Part 4

Project Coin: Small language changes that cut the cost of productivity in JDK 7

Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT or OpenWrt

Open source DD-WRT or OpenWrt firmware can breathe new life — and advanced features — into your old wired or wireless router

Connecting to Cassandra from Java

Jumping JavaScript! Hands-on with the Famo.us framework

Find out for yourself how Famo.us JavaScript framework plans to reinvent the Web

The ultimate superclass, Part 2

Open source Java projects: Spring Integration

Develop a robust message-passing architecture with Spring Integration

Hibernate validation in a standalone implementation

Implement a consolidated validation strategy with Hibernate Validator

Git smart! 20 essential tips for Git and GitHub users

The programming world's favorite distributed version control system also lets you find, share, and improve code. Here's how to make Git and GitHub work better for you

Code in JavaScript the smart, modular way

Treat your JavaScript with the respect it deserves, with more modular design, AMD modules, and CommonJS

Java 101: The essential Java language features tour, Part 3

Autoboxing and unboxing, enhanced for loops, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types

The ultimate superclass, Part 1

Integrating Arquillian and JBehave

Three Arquillian extensions for behavior-driven development in the container

Java 101: The essential Java language features tour, Part 2

Programming with typesafe enums and annotations in Java 5

Object calisthenics: Change the way you code

Initial Peek at Java EE 6 Cookbook for Securing, Tuning, and Extending Enterprise Applications

Dozer: Mapping JAXB Objects to Business/Domain Objects

Why I stopped using Spring

More Common Red Flags in Java Development

Uncompressing 7-Zip Files with Groovy and 7-Zip-JBinding

Book Review: Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

Humble architects

Elasticsearch in a box

Book Review: Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Book review: Instant Mockito

6 secrets of JavaScript Jedis

6 coding tips to take your JavaScript to the next level

Native Java Packaging with NetBeans 7.4

Provisioning Ubuntu with Java in 3 steps

9 killer uses for WebSockets

Consider using WebSockets for instantaneous data without the browser refresh

BadInputFilter revisited

Restore the security benefits of BadInputFilter for any Tomcat or Servlet/JSP container implementation

Oracle seeks Java performance boost, joins HSA Foundation

Oracle, which has already been working with HSA Foundation on projects, finally becomes a member

Troubleshooting Java enterprise application performance

Tuning web service applications for performance and memory utilization

Announcing EAXY: Making XML easier in Java

Consuming SharePoint web services with a Java client

Using CAML for CRUD methods on SharePoint Copy and Lists services

10 common tasks for MongoDB

Getting past the startup hype, 10 things you should do with MongoDB