Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming?: "Code reviews are a good thing! When done properly they greatly increase the quality of the design and of the code. Pair programming might reduce the number of relatively local problems in the code, but this does not mean a thorough review won’t significantly improve it even further. Chances are that it will."

Water Powered Mobile Phones: "The simple hydrogen-producing mechanism and power units make the recharger less than one-fourth the size and more than twice as powerful as the methanol fuel cell prototype that DoCoMo unveiled on July 6, 2005."

Real-World Experiences With Hibernate: "an overview of some of the lessons that we've learnt with Hibernate at Shine. In it we'll share with you our thoughts on Hibernate after using it on a couple of large projects. We'll also present a liberal sprinkling of real-world examples."

A Portable (and Squeezable) Way to Recharge: "Squeeze the shell, plug in the cable, and the fuel cell starts to do its work: a chemical reaction produces electricity, and a dead Razr is brought to life more swiftly than Frankenstein."

Social Call: "Last year Future Platforms built a mobile Java-based Sudoku game for Puzzler Media that allowed users to register their scores in a league. "We thought we'd get maybe 5% of people reporting their score," says founder Tom Hume. In fact, a massive 40% of players entered their scores."