http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/07/javas-reflection-api.html – reflection basics. A pretty good description of what you can do. Unfortunately it lacks information about MethodHandle introduced in JDK 1.7 http://www.infoq.com/articles/G1-One-Garbage-Collector-To-Rule-Them-All – G1 GC description. http://java.dzone.com/articles/gradle-deprecations – worth reading if you’re using Gradle on your projects. http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/07/5-coding-hacks-to-reduce-gc-overhead.html – five useful tips http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#moves – new goodies in SVN 1.8 http://elwood.su/?p=544 (Russian) – article about using JBoss Remoting bisocket transport to organize server-client communication.  http://habrahabr.ru/post/185492/ (Russian) – Really cool article about UEFI and Secure Boot http://habrahabr.ru/post/184412/ (Russian) – Scala…