Java Standard Edition Platform

Performance
  • Regular Expressions
    Beware a slow death by a thousand regular expressions! This tutorial catalogs important performance considerations when working with regular expressions in Java.

Java Enterprise Platform

Servlets
  • MIME Servlet
    Describes a reusable Servlet that can serve up content from all of the MIME media types, including images.
  • Container-Managed Authentication
    Free yourself from writing user authentication code! View this tutorial to learn how the java application container can manager user authentication concerns on your behalf.
Filters
  • Response Observer Filter
    This tutorial presents an abstract filter that observes HTTP responses and a concrete example that monitors response sizes.
Listeners
Custom Tags
  • Tag Support
    Presents a convenience class that makes writing JSP custom tags quite a bit cleaner.

Software Tools

Source Control
  • Subversion
    A catalog of useful Subversion commands.
Productivity
  • Conky
    Conky allows you to embed a heads-up display directly into your Unix desktop.

Operating Systems

Unix
  • tar heart gpg
    Describes the use of the Unix tar and gpg commands to create secure, compressed archives from the command line.

Software Development Jobs

Finding a Job
  • Interview Questions
    Looking for a job in the field of software development? Here are some questions you might want to ask.