Link Dump
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ - An excellent with a focus on front end web development. Frequently updated with very well written articles.
http://www.alistapart.com/ - Another excellent website focusing on web development. However there is more of an emphasis of best practices, growing trends, and new ideas, instead of just the latest technologies.
http://www.javamex.com/ - A java site that does a really good job of getting down into the nuts a bolts of how Java works.
How Java handles objects
How Java handles objects had always been a thorny issue for me. I don't know if it was a case of never being taught properly or my personal inability to learn, but I either way by the time I began my professional development career I only had very loose understanding of how Java handles objects. This gap in my knowledge impacted my ability to be an effective developer; my code had more bugs and implementing changes was more difficult. I remember many of my friends back in school also having trouble here, so I will spend my first real post (yay!) covering this important subject.
