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Book Club: Hexagonal Architecture (Alistair Cockburn)

In our latest book club we discussed Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture which I first heard about around a year ago and was another of Dave Cameron's...

0 replies - 1022 views - 08/05/09 by markhneedham in News

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 - 804 views - 06/10/09 by keyvan in News

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 - 1611 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...

0 replies - 11508 views - 03/04/09 by jurgenappelo in News

Last day to take 50% off All Manning Books for DZone Members

Limited Time! 50% off All Manning Books for DZone MembersDZone has arranged with Manning Publications to offer you an amazing deal on Manning books....

4 replies - 11247 views - 01/28/09 by WeiLing in Announcements

The Top 5 Books I Read in 2008

I read several books in 2008, 90% of them were technical. I also read a number of books related to software development rather than a specific framework or...

10 replies - 14503 views - 12/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Book Comparison: Spring Recipes and Pro Spring 2.5

Since about 2 years ago I have been an evangelist for Pro Spring book in the Spring Forum, the best and definitive book to learn Spring from the scratch...

0 replies - 5277 views - 12/17/08 by Manuel Jordan in Articles

Two Exceptional Books from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has just released two exceptional books. These two books do not cover any framework, or any new technology. I have read the first few...

2 replies - 6861 views - 03/31/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

Pro Netbeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition : New from Apress

Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. The authors of this book are...

0 replies - 3455 views - 02/28/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

Two Great Books for PHP Developers

PHP is hot and this week we have two new releases to keep developers in top form. First, Pragmatic Bookshelf has released Rails for PHP Developers, a guide to...

6 replies - 2565 views - 02/13/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

Several Exciting New Books For Web Developers

I was preparing my draft for interviewing some of the authors for Manning as well as Apress, and browsing their web sites for updates. There are several new...

1 replies - 1111 views - 01/26/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

The CSS Anthology - 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, Hacks

Chapter 1 - Getting started with CSS Chapter one is a whirlwind trip through the very ground work of CSS design. It start of with coverage of the different was of defining CSS styles. The author...

0 replies - 2055 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Oracle Essentials

Chapter 1. Introducing Oracle This chapter presents a brief history of the development of the relational database, including a history of the development of Oracle databases, as a context for...

0 replies - 1580 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Interview: John Ferguson Smart, Author of Java Power Tools

Java Power Tools which will be released around Match 2008, covers 30 open source tools designed to improve the development practices of Java developers. As...

0 replies - 2282 views - 01/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

SOA Security

Part I - SOA basics Chapter 1 - SOA requires new approaches to security SOA is all about breaking down barriers between one application and another, rethinking them as services that can call...

0 replies - 3225 views - 01/10/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews