JBoss Portal Server Development Book Review

This book is dedicated to developers that works every day on J2EE portals. The author explains all the portal concepts and standards supported in JBoss Portal.The target audience of the book...

0 replies - 3199 views - 04/21/09 by piergiorgiolucidi in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Seam In Action

The intent of the text is to provide comprehensive coverage of the features of Seam. This includes both background as to why these features exist and details of how to use them. The number of ways...

18 replies - 2713 views - 04/14/09 by David Sills in Book Reviews

Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming

I consider this book oriented more towards beginners and medium Spring/AOP developer programmers. This book has a good structured approach to learn for any reader. It has concrete theory and...

2 replies - 4322 views - 04/08/09 by Manuel Jordan in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect

Some people think that API design is an art, and there is some truth to that. However, this book is for designers and developers looking to blend some engineering into the mix.Personally, I believe...

18 replies - 2857 views - 03/28/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Java Persistence with Hibernate

To be a comprehensive learning aid to intermediate to advanced Java programmers who want to learn to use Hibernate in their Java software projects.Win a copy of this book - Simply tell us about your...

36 replies - 3386 views - 03/25/09 by jkilgrow in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy - Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework

Core .NET Refcard Download our Core .NET Refcard - written by Jon Skeet, it makes a great companion to this book.Developers starting out in the .NET Framework should not start with this book. If you...

9 replies - 1181 views - 03/19/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

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2 replies - 1432 views - 03/16/09 by Aslam Khan in Book Reviews

.NET Fireside Chats - Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Brian Peek and Dan Fernandez, authors of 'Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube,...

4 replies - 1233 views - 03/10/09 by alashcraft in Articles

The State of Silverlight 2 Books

The past couple weeks I’ve seen a number of people asking for Silverlight book recommendations. Although I haven’t read all the below books; I’ve put...

0 replies - 1258 views - 03/06/09 by cschuman in News

Top 50 New Software Development Books

It's been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still refer to it when I want to...

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Win Your Copy - WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008

This book is geared toward individuals that have at least a general development background, but have no knowledge of WPF. A novice may be able to work well with this book, but it is expected that...

3 replies - 1182 views - 03/04/09 by izzyschwartz in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Collective Intelligence in Action + An Interview with the Author

Collective Intelligence is a useful technique, as we try to provide web applications that will appeal to entire communities. We had an opportunity to talk to...

6 replies - 2874 views - 03/04/09 by WeiLing in Articles

Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Who is this book aimed at? I think the beginning of chapter one sums it up nicely: “You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better...

1 replies - 4853 views - 03/02/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

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33 replies - 19103 views - 02/16/09 by WeiLing in Uncategorized

Stripes:...And Java Web Development Is Fun Again

This book is written with a Java developer audience in mind. Some experience of developing web applications will be helpful. The purpose of this book is to introduce the Stripes framework. Best...

7 replies - 5745 views - 02/11/09 by Meera Subbarao in Book Review

EJB 3 Developer Guide

This book is aimed at the Java developer with relatively little exposure to EJB3.

0 replies - 2339 views - 07/15/09 by zakamuffin in Book Reviews

The Definitive Guide to NetBeans Platform

The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform is a thorough and definitive introduction to the NetBeans Platform, covering all its major APIs in detail, with...

0 replies - 96 views - 07/10/09 by RyanLittle in Uncategorized

Book Review: Grails in Action

Targeted very specifically at pragmatic programmers, i.e., you need to get a job done, right now, today, rather than needing to gain an understanding of highly abstract concepts.

1 replies - 1156 views - 07/10/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in Book Reviews

Book Review: Pro JavaFX Platform

This book feels like it is primarily targeted towards desktop and rich internet application developers. It contains technical information for developers and designers, and builds a compelling case...

8 replies - 1498 views - 07/09/09 by Jonathan Giles in Book Reviews

Win your Copy: OpenSolaris Bible

The good point for this book is that it does not start from somewhere in the middle by assuming that reader is familiar with UNIX systems either through one of UNIX operating systems of by having...

9 replies - 780 views - 06/19/09 by Masoud Kalali in Book Reviews

Learning Dojo

I consider this book oriented to any already Dojo Developer with the idea to have a reference in hands and many samples applied. The book has a cover style oriented in my opinion for reference,...

0 replies - 569 views - 06/18/09 by Manuel Jordan in Book Reviews

Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life

The authors state their target audience well: Anyone wanting out of the rat race. Anyone who wants to stand up, look around, and see if this road is somewhere they want to go. Anybody who imagines...

0 replies - 1300 views - 06/17/09 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

An Overview of Wrox Series

I’m happy to say that after almost a year of hard-work on our Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book, last weekend Simone and I sent the last part of our chapters to...

0 replies - 439 views - 06/10/09 by keyvan in News

Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development

I consider this book oriented to any Spring Developer with the desire to quickly learn how to work with Spring Web Flow 2.0.X from scratch, developers who already have experience with 2.0.x and...

0 replies - 2897 views - 06/03/09 by Manuel Jordan in Book Reviews

JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications

The main audience for this book is developers who wish to create Rich Internet Applications with JavaFX. The book is suitable for those who are currently using Swing to do this, those who are...

0 replies - 2608 views - 06/02/09 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews

Seam Framework: Experience The Evolution of Java EE

The book's intended audience are those who are just starting to investigate Seam, or who want to find out more about the technology, to advanced users of the technology who want to be updated for the...

1 replies - 3938 views - 05/12/09 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews

Spring 2.5 Aspect-Oriented Programming Book Review

This book is dedicated to developers that work on J2EE applications every day, and would like to know more about Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and Spring AOP. I think that this book can...

1 replies - 2084 views - 05/11/09 by piergiorgiolucidi in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: JavaScript for Programmers

jQuery Selectors Refcard Download our jQuery Selectors Refcard - written by Bear Bibeault, it makes a great companion to this book.This book is aimed squarely at the beginner level web developer....

12 replies - 746 views - 05/06/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition in C# and VB

Core ASP.NET Refcard Download our Core ASP.NET Refcard - written by Holger Schwichtenberg, it makes a great companion to this book.This book could be useful for a wide range of ASP.NET developers,...

4 replies - 885 views - 04/29/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

To quote the back of the book, “Whether you’re a deep thinker, programmer, manager, knowledge worker, or technogeek (or you just happen to have a human brain you’d like to crank up), Pragmatic...

26 replies - 3921 views - 04/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

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