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The Pyjamas Book Online is being developed as a comprehensive guide and reference to developing Pyjamas Applications in Python. Pyjamas allows the developer to escape from AJAX and Javascript and program exclusively in Python, if desired, for the creation of Rich Internet and Desktop applications, using the same Python source code for both Desktop and Web. Pyjamas is a port of GWT to Python.

If you want to start reading about Scrum take a look at this article. Quite comprehensive set of links and book list about Scrum you should consider reading.

This excerpt from the upcoming book, Open Source SOA, addresses the Service Component Architecture (SCA), and its sister technology, Service Data Objects (SDO), emerging standards used in service-oriented architecture for creating multi-protocol, multi-language services based on reusable components. Using JBoss jBPM, as the author demonstrates, you can apply process automation to a wide set of business process management problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business process orchestration.

The e-book version of the Pragmatic Programmers release Rails for PHP Developers written by Derek DeVries and Mike Naberezny occupies now some of my scarce hard drive space for several months, and today I managed to hit the last page of it. In case you're interested in knowing if it's worthy to sacrifice some rare hard drive or bookshelf space for this book read on.

I have gone through "Uncle Bob" Martin's new book, Clean Code,which is a lenthy presentation of rules that will help Java developers write better code. It's similar to Kent Beck's Implementation Patterns,except more code-fixated. Clean Code has some good points, but it contains several weaknesses that seem to have gone entirely by the reviewers on Amazon. So, here's the scoop.

Patterns books are great because the chapters are usually short and very focused. Here are 8 of my favorites. Which have you read and would you recommend?

This article contains a top 100 of the best management, leadership & personal development books. I have created this list using three different criteria

Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java provides many useful technique on Artificial Intelligence Programming. The 124 pages, 1.25 MB ebook also provides a few code listings that you can practice directively, and even another code listing bundled in the zip file along with this ebook, about 1MB in src directory.

This book will teach users to use NetBeans functionality to automate many of the tedious or repetitive tasks frequently encountered when developing applications using JavaBeans. Utilizing NetBeans, users will be able to implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern by using JavaBeans as the model component. They can also add messaging functionality to enterprise applications through the Java Messaging Service API and through message-driven EJBs.

If you’re interested in Groovy (and if you’re not you should be) then “Groovy Recipes” is a book you’ll find useful over and over again. There’s enough information here to keep you busy learning and experimenting for a long time. But it doesn’t stop there; “Groovy Recipes” is also an introduction to Grails, the Rails-like web application framework written in Groovy.

I’m a big fan of writing as little code as possible and borrowing everything else. I’m also a big fan of Groovy. I recently had the pleasure of reading Chris Judd, Joseph Nusairat, and James Shingler’s hip “Beginning Groovy and Grails” and in short, I loved it! This book is all about borrowing a slick web framework (and a lot of plug-ins) and leveraging the power and simplicity of Groovy to build web applications quickly.

Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Robert C Martin is a rare book that you can carry along in your entire IT career path. Whether you follow Agile or Waterfall process, this book is must-have for all programmers.

I always thought GOF Design Patterns book achieved it's objective to make us better C++/Java programmers. It taught us how to design polymorphic class hierarchies alongside encouraging delegation over inheritance. In an object oriented language like Java or C++, which does not offer first class higher order functions or closures, the GOF patterns taught us how to implement patterns like Command, Strategy and State through properly encapsulated class structures that would decouple the theme from the context. As long as we do not link them with the pattern definition and theory as espoused by Christopher Alexander, the GOF book has an invaluable contribution towards today's mainstream OO community.

As web developers, it only makes sense that we find learning resources on our preferred medium, the Internet. However, there are definite pluses to the Old School method of learning; the print book. They've been through rigorous editing cycles, and you can trust solid publishers like O'Reilly. Also, you can trust the user ratings and comments that are on sites like Amazon. You can make an informed purchase with the help of these comments, and you don't have to worry that these highly-rated titles are going to be accurate or poorly written. Publishing contracts are generally only given to industry and thought leaders who are worth listening to and learning from.

The Clojure Beta book is now available. Here's the Table of Contents. (Chapters with an asterisk are included in this beta.)

JavaCC is a tool that I've found that I can quickly hack together a simple parser with minimal effort. That said, I'm not in the business of building parsers so it's a need that only comes along once in a blue moon. It requires that I hack at code and poke through documentation and spend some time scratching my heap trying to figure out what going on. So, I'm very glad to have a copy of "Generating Parsers with JavaCC " written by Tom Copeland.

The programing languages we are using has a formal name called "Formal Languages" (FL), here is a short explanation about it. If you are a former programmer, don't loose your time reading this.

Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect, is a former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Bloch won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine for the first edition of his 2001 book, Effective Java Programming Language Guide, known to many developers as Effective Java, and he is also the coauthor (with Neal Gafter) of the highly regarded book Java Puzzlers.

Apple recently dropped the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that developers had to agree to develop iPhone applications using the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). The NDA prohibited iPhone developers from writing tutorials, guides, blogs, books, and even wikis about the iPhone SDK. Since the NDA has been lifted on the iPhone SDK many publishers have announced the release dates of books aimed to assist in the development of iPhone applications. Here is a list of upcoming books devoted to the iPhone SDK...

"slide:ology" can help you improve your ability to connect with the people listening to you by taking the focus off of the software you're presenting with and putting it back on what's really important; the ideas being presented, the people you're presenting them to.

He has realized that, while computers have become easier for end users, the very features that paved the way to point and click simplicity are actually making programmers less productive. "Developers who grew up using graphical user interfaces don't know many of the cool, efficient tricks of the trade of the Really Smart Guys of yesteryear," he says. His goal with The Productive Programmer is to spur those computers from a gentle stroll to at least a brisk trot.

The pilot will be the first time the new life cycle is exposed on a real project with a real team. In effect it is a marketing event for the new process. If you choose the wrong type of pilot you could end up aborting, which would be a poor advertisement for the new process.

This book has been taken out of print by W. H. Freeman. You are welcome to use it if you like. We believed in 1992 it was the way to introduce theory in Computer Science, and we believe that today. --- Al Aho and Jeff Ullman

A nice book of algorithms and source code.