The CodeRanch Journal January 2014
Howdy from everyone at the Ranch!
What's new?
We have three shiny new features to celebrate our fifth year on JForum.
The Rattlesnake Pit - We have a new forum for political, controversial or "too meaningful for MD" topics. It requires 5 cows to post, but anyone can read.The ability to flag posts for more attentionA re-launch of the beta view with more screens using the new look and feel
See the
announcement thread to read more about them or leave us some comments.
Plus
Check out the leaderboard to see who has the most likes or cows. (across all time or the last 30 days)
Blogs and discussions
Jeanne blogged about the Application Security conference
Tim blogged about magic numbers
(see you don't have to be a moderator to have your blog post featured in the Journal. Keep posting in
Blog Around the Campfire and your blog post could be here)
And around the forums
Our discussion about favorite Java 7 features is still going strong
A greenhorn gets some help with Android
We've retired our NetBeans Certification forum since the exam itself is retired. Don't worry, all the posts are still there. Just look in the Product and Other Certification forum
Book Promotions and Reviews
We have a book promotions coming up starting this week. See the
book promotion schedule to see how and where you can win a free book.
Staff book review for Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - reviewed by by Mohamed Sanaulla
Staff book review for Murach's Android Programming - reviewed by not one, not two, not three, but FOUR moderators. Check out the variety of opinions on the same book to see how your moderators think
Suggestions/Feedback
If you have any feedback about this edition or the Ranch journal in general,
then feel free to open a new
thread in our
Ranch Office forum
About the editor
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.
All this and much, much more on
javaranch.com.