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Sun Developer Day Kiev, October 20th, 2006

Alex — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:34:27 +0000

Features Simon Ritter, Joey Shen, Michael Li speaking about Solaris 10 and Java SE, NetBeans and Creator, Java EE5 and Glassfish project.

Details

Lviv Hotel

Meet Bruce Eckel at Java Developers Day

Alex — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:52:55 +0000

Today is the last chance to get discount on registration.

Java Developers Day 2006 October 21st, 2006, Krakow, Poland

Prepare to Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) Exam in 17 days

Alex — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:39:16 +0000

General info

Now Sun Certified Associate for the Java Platform, Standard Edition, Exam Version 1.0 (CX-310-019) is available which is

a cheaper version
lighter to pass
requires general view
programmers do not really need this

Paper books

Free e-book from Mikalai Zaikin SCJP Tiger Study Guide

Mock tests and certification sites

BEA Forum in Kiev, June 15

Alex — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:39:36 +0000

EPAM Systems holds BEA Forum with Peter Cooper-Ellis, executive vice president of the WebLogic Server Business Unit, as a guest star. Meeting will concentrate on the latest developments and tendencies in SOA product family. Details on EPAM Group web site (in Russian).

Original Eclipse – without sugar

Alex — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:47:03 +0000

Not fresh but yet refreshing solution

Borland to sell JBuilder and embrace Eclipse

Alex — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:02:50 +0000

After the several moves towards getting rid of JBuilder and supporting Eclipse, the only perpective Java IDE for Borland, company makes a definite move.

JDJ Readers’ choice 2005

Alex — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:47:10 +0000

Interesting facts about 2005 Java Developer’s Journal Readers’ Choice Awards:
1. Eclipse project won in 6 nominations but the best Java IDE is IntelliJ IDEA.
2. NetBeans platform is not mentioned in Best Rich Client Platform category.
3. Commercial products prevail over free and open-source.

IDEA for JavaScript

Alex — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:37:34 +0000

IntelliJ IDEA provides a mechanism for IDE developing for languages other than Java. As an examplary implementation, JetBrains themselves are developing JavaScript. Dmitry Jemerov writes about the cool features for JavaScript in the future IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 “Demetra”.

CVS Naming Convention

Alex — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:51:40 +0000

Despite the mass of resources on CVS usage available, little of them mention the issue of naming branches and tags which is very important if you strategy suggests there will be a lot of them in the repository.

Here is what we came up with.

Full branch name: Br_yy-mm_BranchName
Root (base) tag for branch: Root_Br_yy-mm_BranchName (as prompted by Eclipse)
Latest trunk-to-branch merge point in branch: Br_yy-mm_BranchName_Merged
Latest branch-to-trunk merge point in trunk: Merged_yy-mm_BranchName
Sub-branches: Br_yy-mm_BranchName_SubBranchName
Latest stable version: HEAD_STABLE or Br_yy-mm_BranchName_STABLE (shared movable tag, can be assigned only by module owner)
Release of any kind: Delivery_yy-mm_Purpose-Or-Version (example: Delivery_05-01_Milton-Demo)

Notes:
1. yy stands for year’s, mm – for month’s 2 last digits, the month of the branch creation; these numbers stay constant for all interconnected artifacts despite of the time of their creation, i.e. Merged for branch contains the date of branch creation and not the date of merge operation
2. Try using TitleCase or dashes inside long proper names instead of underscore. Underscore _ is used to separate the logical segments of a name.

SCBCD Preparation Mind Map

Alex — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:31:22 +0000

Sun Certified Business Component Developer Preparation Plan

click for larger mind map (in new window)

SCBCD exam objectives compiled on one page (PDF) SCBCD Objectives

14 Features I Need in Editors – Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA

Alex — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:48:19 +0000

I put all features in editor and around it that are critical for my work.

	Eclipse 3	NetBeans 4	IntelliJ IDEA Irida
Highlight term (variable) in file	yes		yes
Maximize editor window with one click	yes	yes	shortcut
Refactoring actions	advanced	basic	advanced
Ant file editing	basic	basic	advanced
Syntax check while editing	full compilation	basic	advanced
Local history	yes	no	yes
Snippets	yes	no	advanced
Abbreviations	yes	yes	yes
JavaDoc in code completion	yes	yes	yes
Suggest fix	yes	no	yes
Detect unused elements	yes	no	yes
Syntax-based selection	yes	no	yes
Build-in XML editor with autocompletion	no (yes with WTP)	yes	yes
Smart autocompletion for Java (select classes and variables that fit position)	no	no	yes

Price	free	free	$499

Your comments may update this table.

Sun Certified Web Component Developer

Alex — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:10:02 +0000

Successfully passed through the Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

Specific things about the procedure this time:

improved interface compared to the one half a year ago;
no questionnaires at the end of exam but instead more papers to sign at the beginning.

Topics that I would wish I had prepared better:

JSTL tags a bunch of approximately 7 questions was about the format of core library tags and their actions;
rarely mentioned tags inside like or ; in other words, you are definitely supposed to scrutinize web.xml’s DTD

Many questions concerned patterns, expect to have at least a question about each one given in the objectives.

Here is a all-in-one-page reference for SCWCD exam in PDF format.

SCWCD Exam Study Kit by Hanumant Deshmukh et al was very helpful, so were Enthuware’s tests. Mikalai Zaikin has compiled a free book on the SCWCD exam’s objectives.

For those who wish to pass certification in Kiev, BMS Consulting is recommended as a Prometric authorized certification center; except for the overextended payment procedure, everything went just smooth.