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Bill Armstrong12/28/12
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Weekly Poll: Development in 2013

For the finale in our "End of 2012" series, we want to know what the DZone audience thinks is going to be big in 2013.

Shane Willerton12/13/12
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Review of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

We software developers are an odd bunch. I can say that as I’ve been one for over a decade. We have our personality quirks; are fiercely independent and can be insanely proud of the ugliest code...

Ben Linders12/13/12
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Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain

The book Enterprise Software Delivery takes a view at the software supply chain, and explores what enterprises can do to have software products and services that deliver value to the business. It is...

Ashish Sarin12/12/12
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Interacting with newly created bean instances using Spring's BeanPostProcessor

BeanPostProcessor is used to interact with newly created bean instances before and/or after their initialization method is invoked by the Spring container. You can use BeanPostProcessor to execute custom logic before and/or after bean’s initialization method is invoked by the Spring container.

Andrzej Grzesik12/04/12
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Review of Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations

Presentation Patterns is a new book about creating and delivering presentations. Authors: Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough and Nathaniel Schutta have huge speaking experience, and while they share a...

Cruz Castillo11/30/12
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SOA with REST: Principles, Patterns & Constraints for Building Enterprise Solutions with REST

The authors of the book explain to the readers how to build enterprise solutions using SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) and REST ( Representational...

Matt Raible11/29/12
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The Well-Grounded Java Developer Book Review

I really enjoyed this book and feel I became a more knowledgeable Java developer by reading it. It contained a lot of high-level concepts as well as nitty-gritty details. In my opinion, the sign of a great book is one that you feel you'll refer back to as a reference guide.

Phil Whelan10/03/12
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"NoSQL Distilled" Reviewed!

In this post I am going to review Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler's new book entitled "NoSQL Distilled - A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence." An...

Matt Raible10/03/12
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Core HTML5 Canvas Book Review

I've known David Geary for quite some time and I was asked if I'd like a copy of his book 'Core HTML5 Canvas'. I said yes, and now here is my review of that book.

Eric Gregory10/01/12
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Data Structures, Wikileaks, and What Comes Next

Andy Greenberg's "This Machine Kills Secrets" investigates the rise of Wikileaks and its progenitors. I got the chance to ask him about the points where data structures intersect with history, and what comes next.

Frank Kelly09/25/12
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Book review of "Software Estimation"

Published over 6 years ago "Software Estimation" by Steve McConnell is a great read. As a practitioner of the agile arts I must say in reading it now this book seems like the last great attempt to "fix" waterfall and "big design up front" (BDUF) methodologies which were known for their very distinct big phases of requirements, design, development, testing and release.