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Behold! A link-post!

Wherein I link to various shiny things that caught my eye for the last four days, while I was not able to blog.

preferred Iterator usage - use “for”, not “while”

using “while” with Iterators is naughty

The Head First Design Patterns model is hot

If there is one thing Kathy Sierra and crew know how to do, its how to market their books. I guarantee their covers get a ton more attention then this, for instance. They are getting plenty of free advertising from bloggers, like me and Robert Watkins, for instance.
Anyways, I bought it for the […]

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, in Java, multithreaded

This is pretty much the most important java program ever.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-java-3.html
The site has the 99 bottles program implemented in over 700 languages. A worthy goal:
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

Fowler on collections and closures

Martin Fowler blogged on how Ruby deals with collections using blocks (or closures). Its a nice example of some of the power you really miss having in the Java/C# family of languages.
Wouldn't it be nice if instead of this:

List managers = new ArrayList();
for(Iterator iter = employee.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
   Employee emp = (Employee) [...]

Java technical interview guide - part 1

update 8/31/05: I have written part two with some possible answers. Also, renamed the post.
I did a technical evaluation for a candidate my employer was looking at awhile ago, so I had an opportunity to try and figure out a good set of technical questions for a prospective intermediate level Java web developer. [...]