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Java resources

July 9th, 2003
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??Simon Brunning?? lists his most useful Online Java resources.

As I’ve got back into Java programming at work, this is going to be a useful reference point for me. I’ve not done Java for some time now, and have forgotten a lot.

[Currently listening to You Were Right by Badly Drawn Boy from the album Have You Fed The Fish?]

Paul Java

Further Testing Required

May 9th, 2003
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??Tim Bray?? takes the article on “Strong Testing”:http://mindview.net/WebLog/log-0025 further with an essay called Language Fermentation. He expands on the use of the RuntimeException in Java, explaining how much exception coding this saves.

Paul Java, Programming

Oracle to buy BEA?

January 28th, 2003
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Reports that Larry Ellison is bored after his yacht race. Oracle might buy business software maker BEA Systems Inc.

Paul Java, Oracle

One Character an hour

January 14th, 2003
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I spent most of yesterday afternoon and all of this morning working on a customer’s testcase, debugging an odd looking XML parsing exception. Straight after lunch, I think of something new, something a bit simpler. It works. I added characters of code to the testcase and problem solved. I make that roughly one character an hour.

Someone told me that on average, a programmer does only seven lines of code a day.

Paul Java, XML

Developing Java on the Zaurus FAQ

October 2nd, 2002
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Adorphuye.com hosts the Zaurus Java FAQ. Looks very informative and just the place to get me started. (in a round tuit stylee)

Paul Java, Zaurus

xml links

August 19th, 2002
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SteveViens.com Links

A useful list of references for xml, web services and java

Paul Java, Web Services, XML