A few interesting ways I keep an eye on longer term technology trends.
Google Trends: php, coldfusion, java, .net, ruby (This one has some problems, as “java” comes up for the country too…)
Indeed (job listing aggregator)
| php, coldfusion, java, .net, ruby Job Trends | php jobs – coldfusion jobs – java jobs – .net jobs – ruby jobs |
Drill down to Java ORM frameworks (and JDBC itself)
Jason’s Presentation:
Code can be obtained here: http://swfcamp-2009-shopper.googlecode.com/
Joshua Bloch, Google, Inc., USA How To Design a Good API and Why it Matters:
http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf
Excerpt from Practical API design book by Jaroslov Tulach
http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html
Great book about reusability:
Will Tracz – Confessions of a Used Program Salesman, Addison-Wesley, 1995
