Linked List - Week 33

It's been a long time since that last one, but now that the summer lull is reaching an end, I'll try and make my updates to the blog more frequent.

First link of interest is a Glassfish Wiki page created to contain all the screencasts related to GlassFish. I have to admit, I know very little about Glassfish to date - I'm hoping these screencasts will change that. To keep up to date, I'd recommend visiting The Aquarium blog.

Currently, I'm working on an update to a PHP site I wrote a few years ago, which lead me to find this article about the 5 tools every PHP Programmer should know about.
And while on the topic of the rework on the site mentioned above, I wish that YouTube would publish an Upload API so that I don't need to go round to YouTube to force video uploads each time - there has been a workaround written, but it's based on the POST format - if that changes, I'd need to change round my own code. Lazy I know, but that's what APIs are for. Anyway, rant over. If you're messing around with PHP, this best practices article is a worth scanning through.

Google Interviews - anytime I see a link about them, I have to check it out. I found two such links this week. This one discusses someone's interview experience with Google, from start to finish (without the interview questions of course!). Makes for good reading. Also, this guys talks about his telephone interview, with even more detail on the interview (with code) here.

Finally, a useful link here of the best free web hosting providers - if you're looking!

Looking Ahead to Java7

Java.net has started a new column about Java7 here .

It lists projects of interest, discusses the release schedule, which at the moment looks like early 2009.
There's some good links in there to keep track of what's going on.