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Resources Bin

This is a collection of useful resources that can help TEAMMATES developers. It is a list of references that you can pick from, depending on the knowledge required for your role in the project.

You can contribute to this document by submitting more/better resources. Please use the issue tracker to submit new resources or report problems with existing ones.

General reading

Deployment environment

Google App Engine (GAE)

Java

Development environment

Eclipse IDE for EE developers

Google App Engine Plugin for Eclipse

Google App Engine SDK

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Java Server Pages (JSP)

Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Storage

Java Data Objects (JDO)

Datanucleus Access Platform

Testing

General

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Testing GAE applications

Scalability and Performance

Background knowledge

Process

Marketing

General reading

Deployment environment

Google App Engine (GAE)

What is GAE? - A page from Google Developers Academy.
App Engine Overview - Talks from Google I/O 2012
Getting started with Google App Engine (Java) - From Google Developer Docs
Google App Engine discussion group - It is highly recommended for TEAMMATES developers to subscribe to this.
GAE admin console tips:

The GQL query to retrieve an object by its primary key should look like this:
SELECT * FROM Course where __key__=KEY('Course', 'CS1101')
Above example retrieves a Course object having the key CS1101. Note that there are two underscores each around ‘key’ (i.e. __key__ , not _key_ ).

Java

If you are a beginner: Java tutorials from Oracle. There are many other online resources for learning Java.
If you are an intermediate Java programmer:

Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch - This is a must-read for all serious Java developers.

Java coding style guide is given in the DevMan.

Development environment

Eclipse IDE for EE developers

Useful keyboard shortcuts:

Open a file without navigating the project explorer: Press Ctrl+Shift+R and start typing the name of the file
Use Ctrl+F to auto-format code. Note: Remember to format only the section of the code that you modified. Wholesale auto formatting can create unnecessary merge conflicts.
To bring up the List of available shortcuts Ctrl+Shift+L
To switch tabs: Ctrl + Page Up, Ctrl + Page Dn
More keyboard shortcuts
Top 10 not so popular shortcuts

Useful plugins:

Jautodoc - A tool to help writing javadoc comments

Tips:

To show line numbers: Window → Preferences → General → TextEditors → Select ‘Show line numbers’
To show a guide line at 80 char limit: General→Editors-TextEditors, Activate "Show print margin" and enter 80 in "Print margin column".
Configure Ctrl+F11 to launch the last launched class instead of the class currently in focus (the latter is the default)
This will make creating Java string literals easier: Preferences → Java → Editor → Typing → "Escape text when pasting into a string literal"

Google App Engine Plugin for Eclipse

Using the Google Plugin for Eclipse

Google App Engine SDK

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Git

Tutorials:

Quick interactive tutorial https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
Comprehensive book http://git-scm.com/book

Tips:

How to undo merges

GitHub

Markdown

GitHub Flavored Markdown Viewer plugin for Eclipse

Design

Some general design patterns and principles

The Principles of OOD - An article by Robert C. Martin

API design

Google talk How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters by Joshua Bloch (video) (slides) (summary)

Implementation

General

Exceptions

Exceptions Tutorial : from Oracle

Assertions

Note that TEAMMATES does not use normal assertions because they are not allowed on GAE. Instead, we use our own Assumptions class to emulate assertions.

Programming with assertions : an article from Oracle.

Regular expressions

Regular expressions are also useful when using the ‘find and replace’ feature in Eclipse.

A detailed tutorial from http://www.regular-expressions.info
Online testers: http://www.regexr.com/ http://regexpal.com/
Cheatsheet
A tool to build a regex online http://www.jslab.dk/tools.regex.php
Some useful expressions:

‘word1[\s\S]*word2' or 'word1[\s\S]*?word2' for a non-greedy search : to find a phrase starting with word1 and ending with word2.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

JSON explained

Gson

Gson User Guide

UI

General

Some UI design patterns collections
Practical typography - an online book about typography

IDE

CodePen - try HTML+CSS+JS code fragments online. Alternatives: JSFiddle Tinkerbin

HTML

Full reference - Contains details of each tag.
Best practices

30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners by Jeffrey Way

HTML coding style guide can be found here.
HTML color picker

JavaScript

Mozilla Developer Network’s JavaScript Guide
A shorter recap, also from Mozilla
Some JavaScript Resources for Web App Developers
JavaScript the Good Parts, a Google Tech Talk by Doug Crockford.
JavaScript coding style guide is given in the DevMan.
Use the JSHint Eclipse plugin to find where your JavaScript code can be improved.

CSS

Tutorial sequence: Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced - from htmldog.com
Reference of CSS properties - also from htmldog.com
CSS coding style guide is given in the DevMan.

LESS

Get Into LESS: the Programmable Stylesheet Language

jQuery

JQuery official documentation

Bootstrap

Customizing Bootstrap
To consider:

Icons: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

AJAX

What is AJAX? - An intro from w3schools
JQuery API for AJAX

Java Servlets

Servlet tutorial - From Oracle.
Servlet environment on App Engine - From Google Developer Docs.

Java Server Pages (JSP)

JSP tutorial - From Oracle.
Using JSP on App Engine - From Google Developer Docs.
JSP coding style guide is given in the DevMan.

Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

JSTL API reference - From Oracle
Step-by-step tutorial on basics - From Oracle’s Java EE tutorial
Tutorials for API
Additional info about jsp tags
Additional info about operators in the JSTL Expression Language

Storage

Java Data Objects (JDO)

What is JDO? - An intro from Oracle.
Using JDO 2.3 with App Engine - From Google Developer Docs.

Datanucleus Access Platform

Datanucleus libraries in App Engine - From Google Developer Docs.

Testing

General

Test review guidelines from the book The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove
Google Testing Blog - lots of interesting bits of information there.
Google tech talks on testing
How to test private methods in Java? short answer, long answer

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Uncle Bob’s three rules of TDD (Uncle Bob = Robert C. Martin, the author of Clean Code)
Let’s play TDD screencasts by James Shore: episode 1, episode 2, the rest.