Announcements

1. Spring Social 1.1.0 Released

Cloud

1. MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6 Upgrade Support for Amazon RDS

General

1. A Note On This Week’s Server Maintenance | Pocket Blog
2. Apple Designer Jonathan Ive on What’s Next
3. AT&T creates $500M joint venture for a Netflix-style TV service — Tech News and Analysis
4. The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data

Software development

1. Ameba Teams and Amoeba Management
2. Automate with Grunt
3. Beyond the Product Demo: Choosing the Right Validation Technique in Scrum
4. Code Like a Fighter Pilot, Design Like an Engineer and Measure What?
5. Git Branch Clean-up Adventures
6. Google is testing a feature that lets Chrome users save, share and organize their favorite Web content
7. Hard Books Are Overrated
8. How Docker Helped Us Achieve the (Near) Impossible
9. Improved Query Filtering and Conditional Updates for DynamoDB
10. Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product
11. Move over, Old Man Ruby – your Java moment has arrived
12. On Agile: Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) is key for the team survival
13. RESTify your SQL Data
14. Save more now with Calendar API! | Google Developers Blog
15. TDD is dead. Long live testing.
16. Test your app with Capybara
17. Testing for Developers: why you should be doing Unit, Integration and QA Testing
18. The disease that afflicts us
19. The justice in coders
20. The Top 10 Productivity Booster Techs for Programmers
21. We need better mobile multitasking
22. What Is A Unit Test?
23. you have ruined javascript
24. Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

Java

1. Do more with less: Lambda expressions in Java 8
2. HashMap performance improvements in Java 8
3. New feature for Liferay 7: Sharing Content between Sites
4. Java EE CDI Qualifiers: Quick Peek
5. Spring MVC Exception Handling Example