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The fundamental goal of each software developer is to build and deliver the right software that satisfies their customers. A software developer that wants to succeed, must be a professional focusing on a positive outcome of the project. He needs to find the right balance between building the right software and building the software right. Read my article here: http://blog.goyello.com/2011/12/20/software-development-balancefunctionality-technology/

After many months of development Spring 3.1 has been released. The release is shipped with some exciting features like caching abstraction, bean profiles and container configuration simplifications. This release introduced also many useful enhancments to Spring MVC. Read my full article at GOYELLO blog here: http://blog.goyello.com/2011/12/16/enhancements-spring-mvc31

Spring MVC 3.0 introduced many useful features to work with RESTful interface, including URI templates, content negotation, http method conversion and more. While dealing with RESTful or REST-like API you may like to utilize REST key principle - its Uniform Interface.

Today I was looking for an utility to help me with formating timestamps to user friendly string values like: "moments ago", "few minutes ago", "in couple minutes" etc. Why to write my own implementation, when for sure someone already did it before? And did it better? While googling ("pretty+time+in+java") I found Pretty Time library and I tried it out.

Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 was finally released. And even though Lambda, Jigsaw, and part of Coin were dropped from Java 7, it still has some features that I belive will speed up and generally improve development of Java applications. The below list is my personal choice.