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The JavaSpecialists' Newsletter
Celebrating 24 years of publication, enjoyed in over 155 countries by 70,000 of the world's top Java programmers and spanning over 300 specialist Java articles.
Newsletter Archive (Book Review)
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224 Book Review: Mastering Lambdas: Java Programmin... 2014-12-27
In his latest book, Maurice Naftalin takes us on a journey of discovery as we learn with him how Lambdas and Streams work in Java 8. Full Article
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216 Book Review: Good Math 2013-12-30
Software engineers need to have a good understanding of mathematics. In this newsletter, we review a book written by a geek and aimed at the geek who wants to discover interesting facts about maths. Full Article
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204 Book Review: The Well-Grounded Java Developer 2012-08-06
Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg explain to us in their new book what it takes to be a well-grounded Java developer. The book contains a section on the new Java 7 features and also vital techniques that we use for producing robust and performant systems. Full Article
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185 Book Review: Java: The Good Parts 2010-07-11
In his latest book, Jim Waldo describes several Java features that he believes make Java "good". A nice easy read, and I even learned a few new things from it. Full Article
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163 Book Review: Effective Java 2nd Edition 2008-08-13
Joshua Bloch has at long last published an updated version of Effective Java. An essential guide for professional Java programmers who are interested in producing high quality code, this book is also very readable. In this newsletter we describe some of the nuggets found in the book. Full Article
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144 Book Review: Java Puzzlers 2007-05-16
Experienced Java programmers will love the Java Puzzlers book by Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter, both well known Java personalities. In this newsletter, we look at two of the puzzles as a teazer for the book. Full Article
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140 Book Review: Java Generics and Collections 2007-03-08
Java Generics and Collections is the "companion book" to The Java Specialists' Newsletter. A well written book that explains generics really nicely, including some difficult concepts. In addition, they cover all the new collection classes up to Java 6 Mustang. Full Article
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125 Book Review: Java Concurrency in Practice 2006-04-17
We review Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz. Brian's book is the most readable on the topic of concurrency in Java, and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. It is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java developers today. Full Article
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119 Book Review: "Wicked Cool" Java 2006-01-13
The book "Wicked Cool Java" contains a myriad of interesting libraries, both from the JDK and various open source projects. In this review, we look at two of these, the java.util.Scanner and javax.sql.WebRowSet classes. Full Article
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112 Book Review: Head First Design Patterns 2005-08-22
This book is a fantastic introduction to Design Patterns, probably the best available. In this newsletter, I look at some of the winning formulae used in the book, and explain why they work. I also give some tips of where I disagree with the book and some additional information that will be use... Full Article
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085 Book Review: Pragmatic Programmer 2004-03-05
One of my favourite software development books, this one takes a good hard look at how to be a programmer in the real world. Surprisingly thin for a book with this much substance, I refer to the ideas in here all the time. The pragmatic bunch have built an entire industry around their software ... Full Article
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066 Book Review: Java Performance Tuning 2nd Ed. by... 2003-03-21
In this book, Jack outlines the process used to make Java systems run faster. He gives lots of tips on how to find your bottlenecks and then also gives specific tricks to make your code just that bit faster. A must-have for Java programmers who care about the speed of their programs. Full Article
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048 Book Review: The Secrets of Consulting by Geral... 2002-05-29
How much do your customers love you? How should you give and receive advice? In this excellent book, we learn why it is so important to understand your customer. I use the principles daily in my work with code reviews, performance tuning and dealing with customers or clients. Full Article
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044 Book Review: Object-Oriented Implementation of ... 2002-04-01
In our first book review, we look at an interesting book that talks about implementing numerical methods in Java. Although not primarily a Java book, it gives us some insight as to the performance of Java versus other languages like C or Smalltalk. Full Article
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