JavaRanch Journal, February 2011 Edition
Editor: Roberto Perillo
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Interesting JavaRanch forum posts
Demystifying the OCMJD Certification: Successfully Solving the OCMJD AssignmentJDK 7 is now feature complete. JDK 7 is finally on its way!Recursion: get to know this powerful programming resource!Writing a Binary File in Java to be read by a C Program and Vice-Versa
News from the Ranch
This month, we had the OWASP (or, the Open Web Application Security Project) team answering questions about their book.We also had a small contest in order to choose Clojure or Security forum advocatesCheck out the winners of The Joy of Clojure bookCheck out the winners of the OWASP book
Book Reviews
Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability
Archive
If you are taking the OCMJD certification, you can use the Tests for the Data Class/Locking Mechanism to make sure your Data class is really thread-safe.Here's an interesting interview where Martin Fowler and Paulo Caroli discuss continuous integration, deployment and tests. The interviewer happens to be my good buddy Paulo Silveira.
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Your editor this month
Roberto Perillo is brazilian, has bachelor's degree in Computer Science and is currently mastering in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Aeronautical Institute of Technology. He currently has the
SCJP,
SCJD, SCWCD and SCBCD certifications and works as tech lead and senior Java developer. In his free time, he likes to hang with his girlfriend, family and friends, run, swim, play basketball, play the guitar and support his favorite soccer team: Sao Paulo Futebol Clube!
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