SitePoint is well known for their book: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

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One of them was of particular interest, the Website Owner’s manual.

I’ve been a web developer for a number of years but mainly focusing on backend technologies.

So it goes without saying that I do not have much experience in managing a site.

The free chapter entitled: The Secret to a Successful Website discusses the crucial role of the site manager.

The book is still in “Early Access” phase and should be available early next year.

Beginning Groovy and Grails

I’ve been entertaining the thought of trying out either Wicket or Grails for my next web project.

The release of this discounted book answers my question of which framework to try out first.

Will this finally be the end of JSF for me?

Effective Java (2nd Ed)

InfoQ has an interesting article about the upcoming book and provides a sample chapter on Generics free for download.

Other books from Bloch include:

• Java Puzzlers
• Effective Java (1st Ed)
• Java Concurrency in Practice (co-authored)

I’ve benefited a lot from the original book and I’m excited to see how this updated version will turn out.

Among them are sending notifications through email, IM or even JMS when your log levels reach a certain threshold. It’s a pretty useful feature especially if you need to be notified in real-time of problems encountered in your application.

I’d like to share with you some articles which I found useful about this topic:

• Reporting Application Errors by Email
• Receive Application Errors via Yahoo Messenger
• Instant logging: Harness the power of log4j with Jabber
• Develop an Asynchronous Logging Framework using log4j with JMS and WebSphere MQ
• Track Your Apps with the Open Source Logging Framework, Log4j

So whether you’re developing a desktop or a web application in Java it’s nice to know that you have these options.

Praise God!

The book is entitled:

Collective Intelligence in Action

Unlike other books in Collective Intelligence, the methods and examples presented in CIA are based in Java.

I’ve already joined many other book promos in the Ranch (Head First PMP, Rock Star Programmers, JQuery In Action), but this is the first time I actually won something.

And what a perfect timing it is, since I badly need to make the search algorithms I’m currently working on in our church ministry to be “more intelligent”.

I would like to thank JavaRanch, Manning and the author Satnam Alag for such a wonderful book.

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Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide

You can checkout Mike Chamber’s blog for more details.

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