May 2015 Journal

T h e . C o d e R a n c h . J o u r n a l

May 2015 Edition

Howdy from all the CodeRanch staff, and welcome to the May edition of the CodeRanch Journal.

I n t e r e s t i n g . C o d e R a n c h . F o r u m . P o s t s

We had a top discussion this month about how some code can be cleaned up and made better - https://coderanch.com/t/649845/java/java/Clean-code

We learned a little about Collections and Iterators - https://coderanch.com/t/649641/java/java/Collections-extend-iterators

A member gets some help detecting duplicates in an Array List - https://coderanch.com/t/649929/java/java/count-duplicates-ArrayList

Is the Cattle Drive still open for one on one assisted learning? You betcha! - https://coderanch.com/t/649978/Cattle-Drive/Cattle-Drive-Open

Some confusion about Spring's setter and Constructor injection options cleared up nicely - https://coderanch.com/t/650296/Spring/Error-implementing-dependency-injection-setter

Java turns 20! Hear some of our Ranchers reminisce about their first experiences with the language - https://coderanch.com/t/650313/md/Java

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.

Our recent book promotions and their winners can be found below:

Getting MEAN - https://coderanch.com/t/649691/HTML-CSS-JavaScript/Winners-Mongo-Express-Angular-Node

jQuery in Action - https://coderanch.com/forums/t/650017/HTML-CSS-JavaScript/Winners-jQuery-Action

RabbitMQ in Depth - https://coderanch.com/t/650326/open-source/Winners-RabbitMQ-Depth

N e w . B o o k s . F o r u m

Some of the CodeRanch staff just love reading and reviewing books, and we figured that some of you might like to join in the fun and submit a book review of your own. So we created a new dedicated forum for you to do just that. The Books forum https://coderanch.com/forums/f-151/books

If you've read a book already mentioned in the forum then just add your review as a reply to the thread. Or if you're the first then create a new thread with some details about the book and your review right there.

Here's some recent reviews:

Learning Agile by Stellman & Greene - https://coderanch.com/t/650186/books/Learning-Agile-Understanding-Scrum-XP

Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas - https://coderanch.com/t/650322/books/Programming-Elixir-Dave-Thomas

Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra - https://coderanch.com/t/650133/books/Badass-Making-Users-Awesome-Kathy

T h e . M o o s e . G o e s . S o c i a l

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T h i s . M o n t h ' s . E d i t o r

Tim Cooke (https://coderanch.com/u/168427/Tim-Cooke) has been programming for a living for the best part of a decade, and a lot longer before that just for fun. When he's not writing software for the largest Derivatives Exchange in the World, you can usually find him around the forums with a cup of Tea in hand and his feet up.

S u g g e s t i o n s / F e e d b a c k

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J o u r n a l . A r c h i v e

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