Posts Tagged ‘Java’
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Dependency Injection : design patterns using Spring and Guice / Dhanji R. Prasanna, Manning, 2009
Java programmers will find this valuable. 300 pages, contents:
- – Dependency injection: what’s all the hype?
- – Time for injection
- – Investigating DI
- – Building modular applications
- – Scope: a fresh breath of state
- – More use cases in scoping
- – From birth to death: object lifecycle
- – Managing an object’s behavior
- – Best practices in code design
- – Integrating with third-party frameworks
- – Dependency injection in action!
appendix A – The Butterfly Container
appendix B – Smarty Pants for Adobe Flex
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Tags: 5-stars, Java, OO, patterns
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Clean Code : a Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin ; [with] Michael C. Feathers … [et al.], Prentice Hall, 2009
The programming gods have spoken, and this is the way and the light. The example code is in Java, but the rules and practices should be applied where possible to all languages. 400 pages.
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Tags: 5-stars, agile, Java
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
JavaServer Faces 2.0 : the complete reference / Ed Burns, McGraw-Hill, 2010
A well written book by knowledgeable insiders. 700 pages.
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Tags: Java, web-apps
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam / Kent Ka lok Tong, Apress, 2009
This book introduces you to developing web apps using Java Server Faces and the Seam framework. 300 pages.
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Tags: Java, web-apps
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Programming Scala : tackle multicore complexity on the JVM / Venkat Subramaniam, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008
Programmers will see the Scala language for parallel processing as a path to the future. As always, this Pragmatic book is very practical. 200 pages.
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Tags: 5-stars, algorithms, Java
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Beginning database-driven application development in Java EE Using GlassFish / Using GlassFish Yuli Vasiliev, Apress, 2008
For enterprise web app developers. 400 pages.
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Tags: database, Java, virtualization, web-apps
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Beginning Java ME Platform / Ray Rischpater, Apress, 2008.
This book is for the programmer who wants to develop a mobile app once, and deploy it on diverse PDA / smart-phones (BB, Nokia, Android ..). Am I oversimplifying the challenge? 550 pages.
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Tags: 5-stars, Java, Mobile
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Web Geek’s Guide to the Android-enabled phone / Jerri Ledford, Que Pub., 2010
This is mostly a user guide, but it introduces programming in the last two chapters. 250 pages.
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Tags: Java, Mobile, web-apps
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Use Case Driven object modeling with UML : theory and practice / Doug Rosenberg, Apress, 2007.
Here is a practical book on UML, the best way to diagram the requirements for a software project. 400 pages, hardcover.
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Tags: Java, OO, process
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Software Pipelines and SOA : releasing the power of multi-core processing / Cory Isaacson, Addison-Wesley, 2009
The Pipelines framework, for large scale business applications, divides processing across several threads which can run efficiently on multicore machines. This book starts with the architecture, then gets practical with the help of example code, well explained. 350 pages.
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