Wiki and Javapedia Online: encyclopedia about Java

The Java.net Wiki contains some usefull links related with Java and some other topics:

• Communications.WebHome
• Embeddedjava.WebHome
• Games.WebHome
• Gelc.WebHome
• JDK.WebHome
• JUGs.WebHome
• Javadesktop.WebHome
• Javanet.WebHome
• Javaone.WebHome
• Javapedia.WebHome
• Javatools.WebHome
• Javawsxml.WebHome
• Jxta.WebHome
• Linux.WebHome
• Mac.WebHome
• Main.WebHome
• Netbeans.WebHome
• People.WebHome
• Portlet.WebHome
• Projects.WebHome
• Sandbox.WebHome
• Sungrid.WebHome
• TWiki.WebHome

The Javapedia is an online encyclopedia of all the things that Java developers migth need to know.

I hope those are usefull.

Java World

What to learn about Java and the Java World?

There is a good web site with podcasts about Java javaposse that contains interesting information about Java as well as interesting links . I was listening to the Java Posse Episode 2 - NewsCast for Sept 29 2005 where they provide information usefull information for Java Beginners such as:

• There is a blog that called the Blog Ride by Ted Neward's that contains lists of recommended books about several Programming Languages like Java and C++.
• There is a blog from Bobby Wolf from IBM that also contains information about where to learn about Java as well as information for people like me New to Java Techonlogy . That link contains a section about How to improve my Java Skills with a link to a collection of issues such about Java Theory and pratice issues. There we cand find articles about several different topics such as Java performance Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited.
• There is also a site about Java examples that can be usefull too.
• There is also a collection of Books on DVD that contain training on Java for beginners: Beginners Java 2 v1.5 20004 on DVD by Neal Ford.
• There is a small compact book that I heard about it being a good book to start to read about Java: Java 5.0 Tiger a Developer's notebook by Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan from O'Reilly.
• As a desktop reference book I heard about the Java In a Nutshell from David Flanagan from O'Reilly.

I am also putting together some buzzwords related with the Java World:

• Eclipse
• Netbeans
• Ant
• Apache
• TomCat
• EJB
• J2EE or JEE
• JSP
• JBoss
• JUnit
• Ajax

Friday, October 13th 2005

Recently I got a present from my husband a new iPod and I started listening about computer topics from ITC. It has been a a new world for me and I am loving it. There are lots of interesting podcasts about Programming, Security, Web services, Microsoft and even Python. Between several I listened a podcast by Joel Spolsky and I am currently reading his book called Joel on Software. His book is a set of essays that he published on his blog (www.joelonsoftware.com). Yeee...Yee blogs are new to me too. You can tell, right? I want to subscribe to his blog and for that I realized that I need a RSS feader. RSS is an abbreviation for Really Simple Sindication...it ends up by being a XML format for syndicating web content. I ended up by downloading a new free rss feader for windows called FeedReader. Being really new to the podcast world I think it will be a good idea to scan the book that my husband just bougth Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting.
Last but not least I heard about a search engine for podcasts: http://podcasts.yahoo.com. I need to give it a try still...