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Simon is a consultant, developer, and teacher who's always looking out for new technologies, frameworks, and ideas. His friends call him a clean code evangelist, but in a good way.

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	Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples by Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author), Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz 4.22 avg rating — 77 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Yes, but the difference is the headline, meaning that first, you only show the code, second, you…

Yes, but the difference is the headline, meaning that first, you only show the code, second, you give the audience their task, and third, you offer the name you came up with for the comparison.

The name itself isn’t improved on the slides itself, but when playing that game with an audience, everybody tries to find a good name, and you listen to the suggestions by all the other developers, discussin

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author)

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Badass: Making Users Awesome

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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations

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Simon Harrer liked Tom Hombergs's review of Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples: "Java by Comparison is a very good read for when you're starting with Java. It's very well structured, each chapter providing a "bad" code example followed by an improved version and a discussion of why it is better. The book covers best practices on " Read more of this review »
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