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Interesting reading at
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/students/kinga-ms-paper.pdf

This is a good book for reading if you want to understand more on Java data structures.
Download Link
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/JavaStructures/Book_files/JavaStructures.pdf

From Apress at http://www.apress.com/resource/bookfile/1909

Java Data Objects (JDO) is a standard way to access persistent data in databases, using plain old Java objects (POJO) to represent persistent data. The approach separates data manipulation (done by accessing Java data members in the Java domain objects) from database manipulation (done by calling the JDO interface methods). This separation of concerns leads […]

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirecitonal throughput, and end-to-end latency. The environments currently measureable by netperf include:

TCP and UDP via BSD Sockets for both IPv4 and IPv6
DLPI
Unix Domain Sockets
SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6

OpenDNS is a free, closed-source, DNS resolution service.
OpenDNS provides the following recursive nameserver addresses for public use, mapped to the nearest operational server location by anycast routing:

208.67.222.222 (resolver1.opendns.com)
208.67.220.220 (resolver2.opendns.com)

OpenDNS offers DNS resolution for consumers and businesses as an alternative to using their Internet service provider’s DNS servers. By placing company servers in strategic locations and […]

You should be able to better understand Git after viewing this
http://www.slideshare.net/technicalpickles/git-as-a-subversion-replacement

O’Reilly has published a number of Open Books–books with various forms of “open” copyright–over the years. The reasons for “opening” copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.
Link:
http://oreilly.com/openbook/

These are the programming books that I read or am reading for year 2008, which I think is good for reading by developers.
December is a long holiday. Any recommendations for good books for year 2008 which worth reading, irregardless of programming languages?
Effective Java (2nd Edition) by Joshua Bloch

Java Power Tools by John Ferguson Smart

 
Clean […]

I am reading back the book Pragmatic Programmer which I used to read few years back. The book is full of gems which every programmer should read.
Good excerpt from the book

Invest regularly.  Just as in financial investing, you must invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly. Even if it’s just a small amount, the habit […]

This is another good book for general reading.

Download Link
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/aPToP/

A good for references - Algorithms for Programmers.
Download Link:
http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf

Digg
Digg is running on the followings

Caching (Memcache)
Distributed file system (MogileFS)
Monitoring (Nagios)
Asynchronous Processing (Gearman)

To know more about the architecture, you can read the followings

How Digg works
Digg Database Architecture
High Scalability - Digg Architecture

 
eBay
Existing eBay website is built using Java. There is a good presentation on the eBay architecture. It is interesting to see the evolution to Perl […]

Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub provides Git repository hosting services. You can fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease using GitHub.

Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development such as mis-understanding customers’ requirements, missing deadlines, over-budget, conflicts between customers and developers and poor maintainability of legacy systems.
This book is a bit outdated but still worth browsing through.
Download Link
http://www.agileskills.org/download.html.en

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
The Java Language Specification, Third Edition - Written by the inventors of the technology, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the language’s constructs, this is the source for you.
The book provides complete, accurate, and […]

Publisher:  The MIT Press
This book is a must read for entry level computer scientist or programmer.
Download Link:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

We are a very small firm doing software project delivery. The purpose of the blog is just to share some of the code that we have developed within developers in the company, and also the developers over the Internet. The open source solutions here are developed either as part of the overall solutions that we […]