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Book Review: The Well-Grounded Java Developer

Installing Ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Build your own Linux server on the cloud

In one hour, you can set up your own Linux server on Amazon's cloud. No kidding. It really is that easy. Here's how

Modern threading: A Java concurrency primer

Understanding Java threads in a post-JDK 1.4 world

QCon: Application development faces seismic shift

Java overtook C++ in popularity because it was better suited for the Web, now server-side architectures are giving way to thin-server architectures

Software Architects Need Not Apply

JW Archives: How the Java virtual machine performs thread synchronization

Understanding threads, locks, monitors and more in Java bytecode

Moving Beyond Core Hamcrest in JUnit

JavaOne 2012 Content Catalog Available

Quickly Viewing Oracle Database Constraints

Coverity applies static analysis to Web development

Coverity Development Testing for Web Application Security scans Java code for subtle defects

Early JavaOne 2012 Abstract Acceptances

proposal for EJB component start-up

Recent Software Development Posts of Interest – Early June 2012

Groovy recipes for sweeter Ant builds

An incremental, 'under the radar' approach to Groovy adoption

NetBeans 7.2 Introduces TestNG

JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support

Java tip: Deploying JavaFX apps to multiple environments

Get around the 'gotchas' of JavaFX deployment

NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful

JRuby gets speedier in version 1.7

JVM-based Ruby variant also features support for different character encodings

Java: Jury Says Google Did Not Infringe / Comprehensive JVM Options List

The Developer/Non-Developer Impedance Mismatch

Use Memcached for Java enterprise performance, Part 2: Database-driven web apps

Using Memcached with Hibernate in Java web applications

NetBeans Usability Tips

Easy Unit and Integration Code Coverage

Microsoft is to Monopolist as Apple is to….

JavaFX-Based SimpleDateFormat Demonstrator

Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom Hint

Oracle urges removal of older Java versions due to security risks

Latest Java update holds new features, fixes, and performance improvements

Recent Interesting Software Development Posts – 1 May 2012

Specifying Appropriate NetBeans JDK Source Release

Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories

Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest

Use Memcached for Java enterprise performance, Part 1: Architecture and setup

How is Memcached different from traditional Java caching?

Deleting All .class Files with Groovy

Are Static Imports Becoming Increasingly Accepted in Java?

JavaFX Scene Builder Released

10 hard truths developers must learn to accept

From scope creep to bitrot to users with minds all their own, programming offers an array of bitter pills to swallow

Java 7’s Support for Suppressed Exceptions

JDK 7 Additions to Currency Class

The Impending End of Knol

Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code

Unit Testing is a Means to an End

Software Development Posts of Interest – March 2012

ToString: Hexadecimal Representation of Identity Hash Codes

Just Say No to SSNs

Typesafe Stack 2.0 Released: Q&A with Typesafe President and CEO

JavaOne 2012 Call for Papers

How Badly Do We Want a New Java Date/Time API?

NetBeans 7.1’s Internal Compiler and JDK 6 Respecting Return Type for Method Overloading