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why a FIRST robotics WFFA essay means so much

FIRST robotics competition team 694 nominated me as their Woodie Flowers Award candidate this year. (I won the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award in 2012 at the NYC regional. That was a long time ago so the essay was completely different). … Continue reading →

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using word and floating images to add my new book to my resume

Every year I update my resume. This year, I got to add “Real-World Java: Helping You Navigate the Java Ecosystem!” It’s for For many years I’ve had the cover of my book and some certification badges on my resume. I … Continue reading →

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Free Copilot.. Which IDEs shall I use

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced free GitLab Copilot. You get 2000 autocompletes a month and 50 chat messages. The idea is clearly that you’ll start relying on it and then pay. I installed and configured in both VS Code and … Continue reading →

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todoist and deadlines at long last

I switched from Toodledo to Todoist as my to do list maybe a year or two ago. I found Todoist better for entering data quickly and also for my actually getting tasks done. Which is the number one attribute I … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Birthday! New OCP 21 Book Now Shipping!

Jeanne and I are excited to announce our new Java OCP 21 Certified Professional Study Guide is now shipping! Released by Wiley Publishing, this book teaches you all the new (and old) features of Java 21, and helps prepare those … Continue reading →

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sybex’s new test bank website

On November 14, 2024, switched to new test bank software. That means the mock exams and flashcards and the like are now on a new website. If you are registering for the first time Create an account Register your book … Continue reading →

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Day 13 of BlueSky; thoughts so far

I signed up for Bluesky on November 2nd. Why then you ask? I had “try Bluesky or Threads” on my to do list for a long time. I was waiting until I had time to do it. Which meant finishing … Continue reading →

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

Today I took the SAFe 6.0 ScrumMaster certification and passed with a score of 80%. Passing is 73%. I was optimizing for passing quickly and not investing a lot of time rather than a high score though. My path to … Continue reading →

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[2024 dev2next] reading code

Speaker Marit van Dijk For more see the table of contents Notes Code reading club Example exercises Lack of info Lack of knowledge Lack of processing power Dimensions of code reading Getting started IntelliJ Features Outside IDE Understanding code My take … Continue reading →

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[2024 dev2next] project amber

Speaker: Neha Sardana For more see the table of contents General Many projects Goals of Amber Preview features Local variable type inference Data handling Control flow New language features Future My take I had seen this talk in NY and came … Continue reading →

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