Nice write-up. I think the most valuable advice for a programmer, "Learn a new programming language every year", I read it somewhere in the book but don't remember which one :-)
Thanks for your feedback gus_massa, we'll definitely try that. It's not that I only write about books, there are more than 1000 articles on my blog on Java and Programming. But, if that's the reason I'll probably share the articles which is not about books here.