How to Become a Better Developer Every Single day by @BorrelliDev via @JS_PlainEnglish

 4 ideas to make you a top-class performer without long study nights.

A great place to go for some new ideas on what you can do to improve. I would suggest some real projects and some online free courses with someone like Coursera or edX.

20 Amazing Java Project Ideas That Will Boost Your Programming Career by John Selawsky via @javarevisited

 This is a rundown of amazing Java project ideas that will set off your career in programming.

Some great ideas. I think one of the most useful points is that as you learn a language you need to do projects all of the time to improve your knowledge of it.

Is Java Important For Hadoop Developers? via Soft Tech Solutions

Is Java Important For Hadoop Developers? by Ethan Millar via Soft Tech Solutions - Hadoop experts get frequent inquiries from people who want to know the importance of java to become a hadoop developer. Is it really necessary to learn java to become a big data hadoop developer?

WEBINAR: Building Modern Cross-Platform Web Apps in Java - 24 Sept 2015

Building Modern Cross-Platform Web Apps in Java

WEBINAR DATE: Thursday, September 24, 2015

TIME: 1:00-2:00PM ET

Developers are increasingly feeling the pressure to deliver great-looking, highly-performant, web applications that can run on multiple device types - faster. Despite advances in Javascript frameworks, the robustness of Java continues to appeal to large teams and/or large applications. Sencha GXT builds on the open source GWT compiler to enable Java developers to build complex desktop-like user interfaces that run in the browser. 

Please join us as David Chandler (Developer Advocate) and Gautam Agrawal (Senior Director of Product Management) discuss how you can leverage advancements in Sencha GXT to:

• Build rich user interfaces with tree controls, filtering grids, charts, and more that run in all popular browsers.
• Extend your Java web apps to tablets and leverage touch events, gestures and momentum scrolling.
• Present complex data more effectively by leveraging data loaders, stores and charts.
• Accelerate your overall application, design, delivery and deployment efforts.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

David Chandler, Developer Advocate for GXT, Sencha

Gautam Agrawal, Senior Director of Product Management, Sencha

Register here