"Java by Comparison; Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples" is an excellent book. To describe it in one sentence: it teaches you how to write better and clearer Java code. Who is this book for? I ...

This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...

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I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the Programming forum, but I'm really interested in a Java guide for beginners that's heavily oriented towards OS X and the tools for this OS. I've found ...

I've been learning Java for a semester and a bit and I've been working with BlueJ which has a handy textbook but it's scarcely a definitive reference - it's quite basic. I recently bought Sam's Teach ...

I recently posted an early preview of my thoughts on David R. Heffelfinger‘s book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. In this post, I provide a more detailed review of this book. In this section of ...