Showing posts with label java. Show all posts
Showing posts with label java. Show all posts
18 October 2010

HTTP Response codes & msgs as Java enum

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Just in case it saves someone else the tedious typing... Capitalisation of messages duplicates the inconsistencies in RFC2616 . Don't as...
13 October 2010

A Lesson from Vegetable Gardening for Hiring (and Keeping) Better Software Developers

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Right now I'm in the midst of Busy Season in the Veggie Garden: Spring Planting Time. Even busier than harvest time. You see, you can al...
29 July 2010

Refresher Training is Good, Too!

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Some while ago I was teaching a course -- Java Web Application Programming , as it happens --  to a group of quite-experienced web developer...
04 March 2010

Those Damn JavaStations Just Won't Go Away

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Actually, this thing - going by the dubious name of 'zero client' - looks to be something more like a SunRay than a JavaStation NC...
23 January 2010

Boolean Illogic

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Why do Java programmers hate the boolean XOR operator? Is it that they are just generally ignorant about the full-eval boolean operators i...
21 April 2009

Sun and Oracle

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TL;DR: A fucking disaster for everybody except Oracle and Sun's execs and (maybe) shareholders. i.e. The Kakistocracy wins and the rest...
26 March 2009

SL-275 and Java Programmer Certification

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Midweek; past the halfway mark (in time, anyway) of teaching Sun's SL-275 "Java Programming Language" course. I wonder how ma...
30 December 2008

Teaching Servlets and JSP

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It's the end of a week teaching Sun's SL-314 course -- "Web Component Development with Servlets and JSP" in Cape Town. It...
25 September 2008

Back in the Saddle: Java 101

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Interesting to be back in the Training Game. It is a Java 101 (Introduction to Java Programming for Programmers) course. With some differe...
19 November 2007

Object-Relational Event

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At long last EoD SQL 1.0 is out ! Congrats to Lemnik on this achievement. But what is lurgy? EoDSQL is an Object-Relational bridge -- an...
10 July 2006

JSPWiki

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I think JSPWiki is one of the greatest pieces of open source software out there anywhere.  It might not be well suited to everytone running...