JavaRanch Journal, September 2010 Edition
Editor: Jaikiran Pai
Howdy from the September
JavaRanch Journal!
Blog picks written by the staff
Scott Selikoff blogs about event handlers and weak references in Flex
Interesting JavaRanch forum posts
A discussion on security management in Java EE web applicationsAn informative discussion on preventing SQL injectionsRanchers discuss the pros/cons of generating getter/setter methods using annotationsWe also had this lively discussion on JVM support in Java 7 for dynamic languagesAnd some interesting ways of determining how many times a given integer can be divided by 2
News from the Ranch
We now have a new Incubator category where new forums will be created. We have added the BlackBerry forum under that category. More details are available here. In the coming days, you'll see some more forums created under that category. Our regular book promotions continued this month and we gave away copies of Essential GWT, iPhone and iPad in Action and Learn BlackBerry Games Development. You too can win a free book!This week we have Chuck Lam in our Java forum promoting the Hadoop in Action book. You stand a chance of winning a copy of the book by participating in the forum discussions.Our JBoss Forum now has a FAQ page of its own - JBoss FAQ
From our archive
Every once in a while, we'll bring to you, some of the randomly selected evergreen articles that have been published at
JavaRanch. This month let's revisit:
Evil Unit Testing by the trail bossScriptless JSP Pages: The Front Man by Bear Bibeault
Meaningless Drivel
Before we sign off this month's journal, let's see what the trail boss has been doing outside of
JavaRanch. As he himself
admits, he's nuts about
permaculture and here's one of his articles on cast-iron:
Using a cast iron skillet ain't so hard - with a little knowledge one skillet can be non stick and last for hundreds of years.
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Your editor this month
Jaikiran Pai has been a member of
JavaRanch since 2005 and a moderator since 2007. He works for
JBoss and is part of the JBoss EJB3 development team. You'll find him occasionally blogging at
http://www.jaitechwriteups.blogspot.com/
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