SDTimes

I'm back from holidays ; my brain is still lazy to write long and complex articles :)
So I would only point out a web site on IT stuff I like a lot, ie SDTimes, even if many of yours already know this webzine.
I would especially give a pointer on this excellent article about agile architecture proposed by the RallyDev team. Rally software is a web oriented application developped for managing agile developments, especially Scrum ones. It is well done, and efficient.

"Secrets of lightweight development success"

I found a very interesting article written by Bruce Tate some times ago. It speaks about how to perform a quite successful development by using a lightweight approach.
There is a lot of matter to discuss, and I find many interesting thoughts in this article. I let you discover by yourself this one (it is a quite long article actually ;) ).

Secrets of lightweight development success :

• Part 1: Core principles and philosophies
• Part 2: How to lighten up your containers
• Part 3: The emergence of Spring
• Part 4: A comparison of lightweight containers
• Part 5: Agile development at conservative companies
• Part 6: Persistence strategies
• Part 7: Java alternatives

This article was written in 2005, and IT goes quickly... So, even if it needs to be updated, it is still globably up to date wrt the state of art.

Refcardz

Just a little post today only to put under the light an initiative of the excellent dzone web site, ie Refcards.
Refcards are technical cheatsheets in PDF format on major developer topics. Up to now 13 Refcardz has been written and 8 other ones are planned til September.
Subjects are various like RSS/Atom, Glassfish, Rails, Silverlight, Spring, Depency injection and many others.
A simple means to understand quickly main aspects of many technics.
Enjoy!