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In order to get ready for the SCJP 6 exam, I’ve read SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide, from Katherine Sierra and Bert Bates, aka some of the certification’s exam creators. The authors make clear at the beginning that the book is about, and only about, being ready for the SCJP exam. [...]

hi I went yesterday to the Agile Tour 2009 event in Strasbourg. Overall, I was fearing it to be a bit dull, the program looking not so attractive. Yet I found it quite interesting and worth the time spent. Maybe low expectations helped, I don’t know, still I’m happy of this outcome. Let’s dig through [...]

I’ve recently finished Maven: The Definitive Guide. It was the paper edition, since I muss confess I didn’t manage to go through the pdf edition. Still, I found the book rather interesting and quite well put. It’s not as enlightening and breath cutting as some others, but at least I was able to read it [...]

hi I recently finished Clean code, from Robert C. Martin (well, in fact it’s mainly from him and some guests, but then..). Anyway, the focus of this book is how to write clean code, meaning readable and maintainable code. For this, the authors go at length on the different aspects, dedicating whole chapters to aspects [...]