Amazon Prime Day 2018 - Great Opportunity to Buy Books and Gadgets for Programmers

Many of my friends and colleagues used to wait until November to buy books, gadgets, and other computer items to get the huge discount offered on Black Friday deals, but you don't need to. Amazon is bringing Black Friday to the summer with their annual Prime Day offers. The Amazon Prime day is nothing but a one-day (precisely one and half day) shopping extravaganza, where you will get huge discounts on thousands of Amazon products including books, games, gadgets, and other computer and electronics items. So, if you are looking to buy a new laptop, a new smartphone or want to track your fitness, you can buy Fitbit and other such gadgets at a much cheaper price on Amazon prime day.

Is "Java Concurrency in Practice" still valid in the era of Java 8 and 10?

One of my reader Shobhit asked this question on my blog post about 12 must-reads advanced Java books for intermediate programmers - part1. I really like the question and thought that many Java programmers might have the same doubt whenever someone recommends them to read Java Concurrency in Practice. When this book came first in 2006, Java world was still not sure of about new concurrency changes made in Java 1.5, I think the first big attempt to improve Java's built-in support for multi-threading and concurrency. Many Java programmers were even not aware of new tools introduced in the API e.g. CountDownLatch, CyclicBarrier, ConcurrentHashMap and much more. The book offered them the seamless introduction of those tools and how they can use them to write high-performance concurrent Java applications.

Top 5 Advanced SQL Books for Experienced Programmers - Best of lot, Must read

If you an experienced programmer and know how to write SQL queries and database fundamentals but want to take your SQL and database skills to the next level then you have a come to the right place. In this blog, I have shared a lot of free SQL books and courses you can use to start your SQL journey. This is also the second article about SQL books, In the first part, I have shared some of the best SQL books which are essential to learning SQL queries and fundamentals of database e.g. normalization, indexing, and other design stuff, if you haven't read it yet, I suggest to do it now. You will find some amazing book to start learning SQL. In this article, I am going to share some of the best books to learn advanced SQL programming, which can help you to write better SQL queries and understand how database process those queries.

Top 30 Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Programmers

This tutorial is about 30 Eclipse keyboard shortcuts, this list is by no means complete and I will suggest you guys share eclipse shortcuts listed other than here to make this more useful. Eclipse is the most used Java development IDE and knowing Eclipse shortcuts not only improve your productivity but also makes you more efficient. You will have more time for things you like to do. Using keyboard shortcuts also helps to impress colleagues and shows that you have a good hold on tools you used for Java Development. If you are a Java developer, who use Eclipse as your main IDE for all-purpose e.g. coding, development, and debugging, then I also suggest you take a look at Beginners Eclipse Java IDE Training Course, one of the best course to learn how to use Eclipse effectively from Java programmer's perspective.

Top 30 Java Phone Interview Questions Answers for Freshers, 1 to 2 Years Experienced

In this article, I am sharing 30 core Java technical questions, from screening and phone round of interviews. In telephonic interviews, questions are short, fact-based and Interviewer expects some keyword in answers. Accordingly, I have given very short answers to these question, only main points; just to make this as revision post. I am expecting every Java programmer to know answers to all these Java technical questions if he has more than 4 to 5 years experience. it's only freshers and junior developers who need to do a bit of research to understand topics well. I have tried to include all classical and hugely popular, frequently asked questions from different topics like String, multi-threading, collection, design pattern, object-oriented design, garbage collection, generics and advanced Java concurrency questions. Since core Java interviewer's normally don't ask questions on JSP, Servlets, and other JEE technologies, I have not included them in this list.

Do you Need to Pass OCAJP before taking OCPJP - Java Certification for SE 8 (1Z0-808 and 1Z0-809)

Even though we are now waiting for Java 11, the latest Java certification you can do is Java SE 8 Programmer 1 and 2, also known as OCAJP 8 and OCPJP 8 with exam code 1Z0-808 and 1Z0-809. Even though Oracle split Java certification into 2 after acquiring Sun Microsystem on 2010, there is still confusion among Java developers whether they need to pass just one OCAJP exam, or both OCAJP and OCPJP exam to become a certified Java developer. Well, The short answer is Yes, if you want to become a Java certified engineer than you need to pass both OCAJP and OCPJP but the long answer depends upon your situation e.g. whether you hold any previous Java certification or not, which we'll discuss in the second section.