February2012 Journal   

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Blog picks written by the staff:

• Jeanne writes about knowledge vs experience vs skill while interviewing.
• Jeanne writes about ant dependency graphing with graphviz
• Frank writes about the problem with growing build times and jenkins
• Mohamed shares his thoughts on why dealing with legacy code is hard

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Interesting JavaRanch Forum posts:

• Want to know- What do interviewers tend to know when they say "say something about yourself?", then head over to http://www.coderanch.com/t/565924/Jobs/careers/do-interviewers-tend-know-when
• Portability of Java on 32 bit and 64 bit machines
• Oracle Associate Certified Java SE 7 programmer certification is now live

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Book Promotions: Past:

• Hello! Python in the Python/Jython forum

Ongoing:

• C++ Concurrency in the C/C++ forum
• Spring Integration in Action in the Spring forum

Upcoming:

• Liferay Portal Systems Development in the Portals and Portlets forum
• Murach's HTML5 and CSS3 in the HTML, JavaScript and CSS forum

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Recent Book Reviews by Javaranch Staff:

• Development with the Force.com Platform : building business applications in the cloud
• Murach's Java Programming
• Service Design Patterns
• Location-Aware Applications

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Your editor this month: Mohamed Sanaulla works as a software developer building enterprise applications.

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