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Do people buy paper vs ebooks

Scott and my certification books have always sold way more paper copies than e-books. While I personally like paper books better, I got the sense that they were less popular in general. Recently I was asked by someone who wanted … Continue reading →

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2025 attempt to buy us open tickets

Last year was the first year it was hard to buy US Open tickets. In 2023 and earlier, I would buy them after work during the American Presale, no problem. Ok fine, it’s going to be like Comic-Con where you … Continue reading →

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switching the coderanch build to gitlab

After having some “trouble” upgrading Jenkins on the CodeRanch server, we concluded it would be easier to switch to GitLab for the build than fix it. After all, we are already using GitLab SaaS (software as a service) for source … Continue reading →

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“you only have to be brave for 15 seconds at a time”

There are situations at work where speaking up can be scary. Maybe it is a senior manager or a big group or you aren’t sure how the comment will be received. Or maybe it is giving a presentation. Or pushing … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the Oracle AI Vector Search Certified Professional Certification

Today I took the Oracle AI Vector Search Professional certification and passed with a score of 80%. Passing is 68%. Why I took this certification When I took the Java 21 certification, Oracle was essentially using Zoom to proctor the exam. You … Continue reading →

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Oracle’s new certification exam engine

When I took the Java 21 certification, Oracle was essentially using Zoom to proctor the exam. Today I took the Oracle AI Vector Search Professional certification so I could see the new exam engine. It’s much better! (separate blog post … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the SAFe Practitioner exam

Today I took the SAFe 6.0 Practitioner certification and passed with a score of 96%. Passing is 80%. Like the SAFe for ScrumMaster (read about my experience) I was optimizing for passing quickly. However, this time I was more familiar with the … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the SAFe Practitioner exam.

Today I took the SAFe 6.0 Practitioner certification and passed with a score of 96%. Passing is 80%. Like the SAFe for ScrumMaster (read about my experience) I was optimizing for passing quickly. However, this time I was more familiar with the … Continue reading →

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[javaone 2025] know your java

Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam See the table of contents for more posts Exercise 0 – warm up Exercise 1 – Collection’s remove Exercise 2: type inference Exercise 3: Arrays.asList() Exercise 4: forEach Exercise 5: stream My take This was cool. It wasn’t Venkat’s … Continue reading →

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[javaone 2025] Engineering a Modern Java Platform: Making Kubernetes Work for Java Teams

Speaker: Stephen Millidge See the table of contents for more posts In last 30 years Modernization Kubernetes Challenges for Java Developers DevOps Platform Engineering To create platform My take Fun fact: he took the SCJP 1.0.2. That is a very specific version … Continue reading →

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