http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/08/which-memory-is-faster-heap-or-bytebuffer-or-direct.html – overview of the memory allocation APIs and speed comparison for these. http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/08/di-cdi-basics.html – basics of DI/CDI http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/the-state-of-logging-in-java-2013/#!/ – survey from ZeroTurnaround on the log libraries popularity http://www.tutego.de/blog/javainsel/2013/08/google-guava-evictingqueue-in-version-15/ – Some Guava goodness https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava/src/com/google/common/base/StandardSystemProperty.java – even more small candies from Guava http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/08/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-synchronization-in-java-and-scala.html – some JVM synchronization internal http://habrahabr.ru/post/191954/ (Russian) – interesting basics on HTTPS connection creation. http://anton.shevchuk.name/javascript/jquery-for-beginners/ (Russian) – nice jQuery tutorial.