Ever wondered why there are so many people that program in Python, although Java (along with .NET) is the main enterprise language? You can find out in this post at bitworking.org.

Joe talks about the things (technical term!) that Python has and Java misses. Here is the list of those abstractions with my comments and ways [...]

Garmin for motorcycles – Zumo 550 reviews
Have you ever tried to choose the best color scheme in VIM ? Typing those “:colorscheme …” and looking at your code (sometimes with disgust;) ). Those days are over, now there is a webpage with VIM color schemes html “screenshots” (for C, HTML, Java, LaTeX and Perl). [...]

I bought this book only because it was mentioned on the page of “The Pragmatic Programmer” at amazon as a recommendation. And I must say I was really impressed with the knowledge that is contained in it.
Whole book contains very useful tips for every programmer, not only a beginner but probably many experts [...]

TomTom ONE XL-S – a wide screen GPS

Just a short notice, found it while browsing the digg for programming stories.
There is a proposition to include closures in Java (probably 7.0), here is a pdf file with the proposition.

Pseudocode interesting technique that I found in Code Complete, Second Edition by Steve McConnell.
PPP is a way of developing routines by writing pseudocode for them in the first place (not a new topic) and after that, making the pseudocode a comment in the routine (functions, procedure, method or whatever your language [...]