The third year of curating my Java reading and sharing the best stuff here, on Baeldung … here we go…

1. Spring and Java

Some of the trends of 2015 in the Java ecosystem.

Yeah – short and to the point – multiline Strings would be a highly useful, simple addition to the language.

Interesting turn of events after so many years of problems and legal uncertainty, stretching way back to the days of Sun.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical and Musings

A good way to think about refactoring as an ongoing process instead of a “stop the world” mini-project, once a year.

An interesting rant about home network security.

Interviewing well can feel a lot like luck, and having been on both sides of the table I can definitely see why that's the case.

In my own experience interviewing candidates, the most helpful thing has been not allowing myself to settle into an interviewing rhythm and always keeping my eye on how I can do interviewing better.

Some quick general thoughts about good performance practices.

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

4. Pick of the Week