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GoF Patterns: Helping Losers Lose Less

…don’t dismiss patterns because of the GoF - much of the patterns community derides that work as well. Think of the GoF as helping losers lose less.
- Richard Gabriel, comp.lang.lisp, 2001
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Kathy Sierra, the Shangri-La diet, and common sense

Kathy Sierra recently blogged about her positive experience with the Shangri-La diet (no link love from me). I love Kathy’s blog, her books are great, and she is a great presenter. But she should stick to mind hacks and learning theory instead of advocating diet books.
While, I commend her on success in losing […]

Eight More Essential Books for Developers

A followup to my most popular post ever

Five books every Java developer must own

Update: Welcome, Javalobby readers! You might be interested in the followup to this post. Thanks for the great feedback and suggestions.

Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David ThomasThis is absolutely required reading for any software developer, regardless of language. If you are lost when people are talking about “keeping it DRY” or […]

Naming test objects - mock, stub, fake?

consistent names for “test doubles”

Neward’s paper on the OR mismatch and LINQ

Ted Neward recently posted an extensive paper comparing various OR solutions from over the years, including JDBC, SQLJ, and ActiveRecord. Of course, the paper finished up by showing .NET's upcoming solution with LINQ and how it "hopes to take a large step forward in minimizing the object-relational mismatch." It allows you to code [...]

First No Fluff Just Stuff session of 2006 posted

The first NFJS show has been posted for 2006 for Milwaukee on Feb 24-26th. The full session listing has quite things that I either missed last year or are just new:

Programming Java Concurrency - as I mentioned earlier, concurrency is something I would really like to expand my knowledge on in 2006.
Unit Testing Best [...]

Refactoring and abstractions

"you couldn't refactor your way out of paper bag..."

calling your data layer via Ajax (jsquery) - a bad idea?

thoughts on jsquery and calling JDBC/ORM directly via ajax

IDE code smell: generated comment templates in repository

Many of the modern automated IDEs insert boilerplate comments into your code as your create new classes, methods, code blocks, etc. They contain something like the following:
/*
* Created on Aug 15, 2005
*
* @author Insert Name Here
* Insert type description here
*
* To change the template for this generated [...]