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Daily Caffeine - Issue no.8 - A biography through links: Martin Fowler

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After Joshua Bloch another “Biography through links”:Martin Fowler, chief scientist at Thoughtworks and author of numerous books on software design.

  Martin Fowler’s Bliki
  A Conversation with Martin Fowler: part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI
  TheServerSide hot thread on: Martin Fowler renames IoC: Dependency Injection

Daily Caffeine - Issue no.7 - Inside Java Swing

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  Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
  Swing, Threads, and Events
  A Swing Architecture Overview

Daily Caffeine - Issue no. 6 - Special Issue: Sematic Web

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Yesterday night we had two great presentations at the Java User Group Milano. One of them was about the Semantic Web. Here are some links.
  Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
  The Semantic Web: An Introduction
  Role of Java in the Semantic Web
  The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System
  Jena Semantic Web [...]

Daily Caffeine - Issue no. 5 - Scripting languages for the JVM

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Nowadays there’s a great attention to dynamic and scripting languages; today issue of Daily Caffeine presents three good links to start learning how we can use different scripting languages for our beloved JVM
  Java scripting languages: Which is right for you?
  Choosing a Java scripting language: Round two
  developerWorks : Alt.lang.jre [...]

Daily Caffeine - Issue no. 4 - Is Java boring?

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A blogpost of Tim Bray stirs up a storm in the Java community
  ongoing · One Sun Year
  techno.blog(”Dion”): Java is boring
  TheServerSide (hot) discussion on “Java is boring”

Social Dreams

After social linking and social networks tonight I’ve met a sort of.. social dreams: www.43things.com: What do you want to do with your life?.
I’m almost skeptic about this type of initiatives, because I can’t see a real value in them; anyway it offers a pretty intereting picture of our society, dreams and fears.
It will be [...]

Daily Caffeine - Issue no.3 - Inside Java Classloading

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In this issue you’ll find some interesting articles to start learning about Java classloading and the garbage collector. Enjoy!
  Understanding the Java Classloading Mechanism
  Understanding the Java ClassLoader
  TheServerSide.com - Advanced Classloading in J2EE
  Understanding Automatic Garbage Collection

Daily Caffeine - Issue no.2 - A biography through links: Joshua Bloch

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My MyBlogLog stats tell me that my readers have been particularly interested in Joshua Bloch’s J2SE 5.0 poem. Therefore, I decided to dedicate this monographic issue to Joshua Bloch, one of the creators of the Java language and of the JDK, also an excellent writer and speaker.

  Joshua Bloch [...]

Daily Caffeine - Issue no. 1 - Special Issue: J2SE 5.0

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  Joshua Bloch: J2SE 5 poem
  Enhanced For Loop and Auto-boxing / Unboxing
  Using and Programming Generics in J2SE 5.0
  ONJava.com: Bridging the Gap: J2SE 5.0 Annotations
  Monitoring and Management with J2SE 5.0

Daily Caffeine - Issue 0

This post contains the Issue no. 0 of an experimental (almost) daily column called “Daily Caffeine”; it’s not my goal to make another linkblog (there’s already an excellent linkblog out there), but to provide some good links to recent and not-so-recent articles and blog posts on the Web. I’m planning also to deliver special issues [...]