The Best of DZone: Dec. 31 - Jan. 7

THIS WEEK'S TOP LINKS

Check out the most popular links shared on DZone from the past week. Be sure to share the best developer links from across the web at DZone.com.

1. Rapid prototyping with Spring Boot and AngularJS - by g00glen00b
2. Top 10 PHP Frameworks For Web Developers 2014 - by rahulmahla000
3. A beginner's guide to transaction isolation levels in enterprise Java - by Vlad Mihalcea
4. Multi step form with validation in jquery and html5 - by ashleyrobinson
5. Spring XD 1.1M2 introduces Kafka based message bus, deeper Reactor and RabbitMQ support - by pieterhvmw

THIS WEEK'S TOP ARTICLES

JAVALOBBY

• What's Up With Java EE 8 ? (Part 2) - by Abhishek Gupta
• The New Agile: The Beginning - by Gil Zilberfeld
• Scala Snippets 1: Folding - by Jos Dirksen

IOT ZONE

• Darth Vader Santa Claus Sumo Bot - by Erich Styger
• Connect the IoT Dot's with Help from ConnectTheDots.io - by Greg Duncan
• hack.summit() Highlights - Day 2 - by John Walter

SQL ZONE

• DZone Best of the Year: SQL Zone Edition - by G. Ryan Spain
• Foreign Key Refers the Columns of Same Table - by Joydeep Das
• Leaky Abstractions, or How to Bind Oracle DATE Correctly with Hibernate - by Lukas Eder

BIG DATA/ANALYTICS ZONE

• Prediction Competitions - by Rob J Hyndman
• R: String to Date or NA - by Mark Needham
• R: Cleaning up and Plotting Google Trends Data - by Mark Needham

CLOUD ZONE

• SaaS in 2015 – What New Shifts Will We See? - by Omri Erel
• Adopting SSD Approach for Data Centers - by Ravi Namboori
• The Cloudcast #174 - The 2014 Year in Review & 2015 Predictions - by Brian Gracely

MOBILE ZONE

• Let's Build an AngularJS App! - by Jeremy Likness
• iOS 8 and Native Transitions - by Burke Holland
• Parse.com Anonymous and Registered Users (Android) - by Jamie Craane

NOSQL ZONE

• DZone Best of the Year: NoSQL Zone Edition - by G. Ryan Spain
• Building MongoDB Applications with Binary Files Using GridFS: Part 1 - by Francesca Krihely
• It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time: MongoReplicaSetClient - by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

DEVOPS ZONE

• Developing Java EE applications with Maven, NetBeans and Glassfish - by Zemian Deng
• Why Fairness is Key to Collaboration - by Adi Gaskell
• Regression Dandelions Be Gone... - by Kanwaldeep 'kd' Singh Arneja

PERFORMANCE ZONE

• On Heap vs Off Heap Memory Usage - by Peter Lawrey
• A Beginner's Guide to Transaction Isolation Levels in Enterprise Java - by Vlad Mihalcea
• Solving "Water buckets" Problem Using Scala - by Biju Kunjummen

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ZONE

• Riding Camel on Java EE 7 - REST Services with Swagger Documentation - by Markus Eisele
• Marshalling Java to JSON in JAX-RS - by Thamizh Arasu
• How to Mock a Spring Bean Without Springockito - by Lubos Krnac

AGILE ZONE

• The Rise of Version Control - by Paul Hammant
• The QA Department Mindset - by Rob Galanakis
• Why do you pay people? No, really? - by Tathagat Varma

HTML5 ZONE

• Web Development Tools You Need to Know by the End of 2014- by Jakub Jedryszek
• Why Did This Year Pass So Swiftly? - by Gonzalo Ayuso
• Responsive HTML Email Template - by Andrey Prikaznov

ECLIPSE ZONE

• McuOnEclipse Components: 27-Dec-2014 Release - by Erich Styger
• Code Coverage for Embedded Target with Eclipse, gcc and gcov - by Erich Styger
• How To: Scrolling Crosstab with Fixed Row Headers - by Michael Singer