T h e . C o d e R a n c h . J o u r n a l
January 2015 Edition
Howdy from everyone at the Ranch!
W H A T ' S N E W?
We have two shiny new features to celebrate our sixth year on JForum:
Cow polls - everyone has one vote and you get more for each cow you've earned
Advertiser list - saw a banner and forgot what it said? Check the banner list.
See the
announcement thread to read more about them or leave us some comments.
B L O G S & D I S C U S S I O N S
Jim Manico posted an extremely thorough response to questions about his Iron Clad Java book
Do you know how == works with wrapper classes? There's a good review here
How to look at bytecode in Eclipse
How to get rid of getters and setters in your POJOs
B o o k . P r o m o t i o n s . & . W i n n e r s
There's a book promotion just about every week at
CodeRanch https://coderanch.com/how-to/java/BookPromotions. Just ask a question in the appropriate forum and you're eligible to win a copy of the book.
Some upcoming ones include:
Learning Agile with Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene
OCA: Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 8 Programmer I Study Guide with Jeanne Boyarsky and Scott Selikoff
And a bit further out, we have Venkat Subramaniam and Jeff Langr for their Java 8 Books on functional programming and testing respectfully.
T h i s . M o n t h ' s . E d i t o r
Jeanne Boyarsky has been a member of
CodeRanch since 2003 and a moderator since 2004. She was involved in the original JForum migration and never stopped coding for the Ranch.
S u g g e s t i o n s / F e e d b a c k
If you have any feedback on this month's journal then feel free to create a topic in our Ranch Office
https://coderanch.com/forums/f-10/Ranch-Office.
J o u r n a l . A r c h i v e
Our previously published journals are available online at
https://coderanch.com/how-to/java/JavaRanchJournal
All this and much, much more on
javaranch.com.
