Graham Hamilton the lead architect of J2SE follows up his last interview with a new one here. He talks about making the development of the Java platform more open and how they strive to preserve the simplicity of the language while still adding power for the developers. I definitely think they are on the right track here.
A great article about project management here. It focuses on Crystal Clear (which seems to be an agile methodology?), but really is applicable to any smaller software project.
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.