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Top 10 serverside Performance Problems: http://apmblog.compuware.com/2010/06/15/top-10-performance-problems-taken-from-zappos-monster-and-co/ Top 10 client side Performance Problems http://apmblog.compuware.com/2010/08/25/top-10-client-side-performance-problems-in-web-2-0/

"people tend to want to know something about the other members;  have to develop a degree of interdependence in order that the group or team may achieve its tasks and be satisfying to its members; and has to learn at some level to deal with conflict if it is to survive. The most influential model of the developmental process - certainly in terms of its impact upon texts aimed at practitioners - has been that of Bruce W. Tuckman (1965). While there are various differences concerning the number of stages and their names - many have adopted a version of Tuckman's model - forming, storming, norming and performing" http://www.infed.org/thinkers/tuckman.htm

nice, simple and clear introduction to profile and resource filterung in maven: http://www.manydesigns.com/en/portofino/portofino3/tutorials/using-maven-profiles-and-resource-filtering

When we released our Developer Productivity Report last year, it was the first time we asked our respondents about Code Quality Tools. Code quality tools fulfill a growing need, as our code bases become larger and more complex, and it’s important to try to automate your code checks as much as possible ... http://zeroturnaround.com/labs/code-quality-tools-review-for-2013-sonar-findbugs-pmd-and-checkstyle/

zeroturnaround.com provides since many years quite a representative survay regarding which tools and technologies are used by developers. Here is the report for 2012. No real surprices there. I only miss EJB3 as an independent point. http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/devs/developer-productivity-report-2012/

"Essentially a closure is a block of code that can be passed as an argument to a function call..." http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Closure.html by Martin Fowler

A great, must-know analysis of why teams dysfunction! The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable  by Patrick Lencioni 1- Absence of Trust 2- Fear of conflict 3- Lack of commitment 4- Avoidance of accountability 5- Inattention to results The book in a nutshell:  http://cjalvarado.com/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team/