## Join the conversation on Twitter

One of the best ways to stay updated is keeping in touch with the people behind the libraries, tools, blogs, books and Java itself.

- Duke

  The official Java twitter account

- Mark Reinhold

  Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle

- Eugen Paraschiv

  Spring blogger (Baeldung) & author

- Lukas Eder

  Founder and CEO at Data Geekery

- Javin Paul

  Java developer & blogger (Javarevisited)

- Martijn Verburg

  jClarity CEO, London JUG co-leader, Speaker, Author, Java Champion

- Mario Fusco

  RedHatter, Milano Jug coordinator, speaker & co-author of Java 8 in Action

- James Weaver

  Java/JavaFX/IoT developer, author and speaker

- Adam Bien

  Freelancer: Author, JavaONE Rockstar Speaker, Consultant, Java Champion

- Trisha Gee

  Java Developer Advocate @ MongoDB, Java Champion

- Antonio Goncalves

  Java Champion, JUG Leader, Devoxx France, Author

- Stephan Colebourne

  Java developer, blogger and speaker, known for Joda projects and JSR-310

- Arun Gupta

  Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, UG Leader, Devoxx4Kids-er, Red Hatter

- Simon Maple

  Technical Evangelist for ZeroTurnaround, Java Champion, virtualJUG founder

- Stephen Chin

  JavaFX evangelist, author, speaker, and open-source hacker

- Carl Quinn

  Java Posse member

- Martin Fowler

  Programmer, Author & Speaker, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks

- Bruno Borges

  Product Manager/Java Jock at Oracle

- Uncle Bob Martin

  Software Craftsman

- Alex Miller

  Tending Clojure @ Cognitect. Creator of Strange Loop, Lambda Jam, Clojure/West

- Joshua Bloch

  Effective Java author, API Designer

- Brian Goetz

  Java Language Architect @ Oracle

- Fabiane Nardon

  Chief Scientist at TaliTarget, Founder at ToolsCloud, Java Champion

- Gil Tene

  CTO & Co-Founder @ Azul Systems

- Josh Long

  Spring Developer Advocate @ Pivotal

- Victor Grazi

  VP at Nomura Securities, InfoQ Java Editor, Java Champion

- Kirk Pepperdine

  Co-founder & CTO @ jClarity, Java Champion

## READ THE BEST SOURCES

There are many resources on news sites and blogs that carry valuable insights for your projects. Some are already well known, some a bit less and together they will keep you on the right track.

Here are our favorites:

- Java Code Geeks

  Java developers resource center

- InfoQ

  Spreading of knowledge and innovation in professional software development

- The ServerSide

  For enterprise Java architects and developers

- Dzone

  The Javalobby, a curation of guest blog posts

- Javarevisited

  A blog about Java and related Java technology stack by Javin Paul, an experienced Java developer

- Takipi Blog

  Java, Scala, logging, server debugging and beyond

- Plumbr Blog

  Garbage Collection and core Java posts

- jOOQ

  Best practices and lessons learned from writing awesome Java and SQL code.

- Awesome Java

  A curated list of awesome Java frameworks, libraries and software

- OpenJDK

  The place to collaborate on an open-source implementation of the Java Platform.

- Java subreddit

  Reddit's Java community

- RebelLabs

  A ZeroTurnaround think tank with Java posts, technical reports and whitepapers

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## Newsletters

Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything in real time. The following newsletters and weekly updates will keep you up to date periodically when you're too busy to sift through everything yourself.

- Java Code Geeks

  The newsletter that gets you on top of things with the most popular Java related content

- Java Specialists

  Hardcore Java in the depths of the JVM. Not for the faint of heart, and a must if you’d like to understand the ins and outs of Java

- Java World

  One of the most popular Java related websites, the newsletter keeps you updated with the latest tutorials and Java community news posted on JavaWorld

- The Java Posse

  Java technology podcast, Java platform news, interviews with leading figures, opinions and “general mayhem”

- Java Performance Tuning

  This newsletter’s sole purpose is to cover all aspects of Java performance issues and it does an awesome job with that

- Oracle's Java Magazine

  A bi-monthly magazine with the biggest stories around Java right from the source

- Thoughts on Java

  Thorben Janssen's blog and weekly recap of the great Java content from all around

## Java events for 2014

Nothing beats being there in person, meeting like-minded people, catching that keynote and joining some hands-on workshops. It's your chance to learn from others and contribute back to your community.

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