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Development

Good Java books

Eric over at Manageability has a good list of Java books to read here. I’ve just finished J2EE without EJB by Rod Johnson and I might even consider having it higher on the list. It does an excellent job of explaining The Spring framework but also explains when it is sound to use EJBs, JTA etc. in your projects. It has much more background information than I thought it would. An absolutely excellent book.

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General

Extensive Firefox review

Good and extensive FireFox review here. Picked up a good extension called SessionSaver too.

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Hiring developers

Computerworld has a nice article here about hiring people not tools. To me it’s important that I can trust the person and know that they are competent and willing to learn. If they have had experience with Java or C++ is secondary.