Tools

Make your tech watch easier !

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Feed aggregator

• Organize, read and share the content of your feeds, blogs, ...
• Google Reader is almost dead, use Feedly instead

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Bookmarks

• Save, organize and tag your links
• Try Delicious

General websites

Start here !

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DZone

• Links curation
• Dedicated "Zones" for a lot of technology (Java "Zone" = Javalobby)
• Website

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infoQ

• News, articles, presentations, interviews, ...
• Dedicated sections for a lot of technology
• Website

Java

Know the basics !

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Framework blogs

• Spring: Leading application development framework for enterprise Java
• Hibernate: Leading Java persistence framework

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Company blogs

• ZeroTurnaround: Author of JRebel and LiverRebel tools, very interesting reports
• Blog and Labs Excilys: Blog for in-depth articles and Labs for short articles
• OCTO: A french IT services company
• Lateral Thoughts: A young and small french IT services company

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Personal blogs

• Le Touilleur Express: Best known french Java blog
• Martin Fowler: Entreprise design pattern guru

Android

Follow the droid !

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Official android blog

• Android dev team blog
• Website

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Company blogs

• Square: Lot of android rockstars inside (Bob Lee, Jake Wharton, ...), a bunch of open source projects

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Personal blogs

• Romain Guy: Googler, UI expert (design, optimization, ...)
• Pierre-Yves Ricau: Former Excilys, works @ Square, Android hacker
• Cyril Mottier: Works @ Capitaine Train, Google Developer Expert
• Roman Nurik: Googler, UI/Design expert
• Mark Murphy: Author of The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development

UI/Design sites

• Android UI Pattern: Blog posts on design, UI,...
• Android Views: Tons of custom views, animations, libraries, tools,...

Newsletters / Google groups / Communities G+

• Android weekly: Weekly newsletter
• Android Developers: Android Google Groupes
• Android Development: Android Google+ Community

Scala

Funtionalize your feeds !

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Framework blogs

• Typesafe: company behind Scala, Akka and Play!
• Akka: framework to build concurrent and distributed app

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Company blogs

• Cake solutions: publish a weekly summary about Scala news

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Personal blogs

• Sadek Drobi: CTO @ Zenexity, Play! core developer, Play! Enumerator/Enumeratee API creator
• Pascal Voitot: Works @ Zenexity, Play! core developer, Play! JSon API creator

SQL

Feeds indexed : CHECK

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Framework blogs

• jOOQ: DSL for writing SQL

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Personal blogs

• Markus Winand : SQL performance expert

Conferences, User groups, ...

Meet the community !

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Paris JUG

• Paris Java User Group: thematic conferences on Java ecosystem
• The second tuesday of the month at ISEP
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Paris SUG

• Paris Scala User Group: thematic conferences on Scala ecosystem
• One conference per month
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Paris AUG

• Paris Android User Group: thematic conferences on Android ecosystem
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Devoxx France

• 3 days conference for Java/JEE Developers organized by the Paris JUG team in Paris one time per year
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Podcasts

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Castcodeurs

• Leading French Java podcast
• Talks mainly about Java/JEE ecosystem, and entreprise application development
• With Emmanuel Bernard from JBoss
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The Java Posse

• Most listened podcast in the Java world, started in 2005
• Talks about Java, Scala, Android, Groovy...
• With Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Escalate), Chet Haase (Google)
• http://javaposse.com