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MyEclipse
I received an email yesterday and a blog comment earlier from a nice person at MyEclipse. That's notable for a couple of reasons. First, that's the first person to actually leave a comment on my blog here. 🙂 That in itself is pretty cool. Second, that contact is entirely consistent with what I've come to…
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Philadelphia and Fun with RAD6
Back to Philly this week, doing servlets and JSPs with RAD6. At least they remembered to install RAD6 this time. Last week they didn't, and it took four hours to download and install the product. I might even try running the updater and see what happens. In the meantime, it's Hibernate some more. I'm going…
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Hibernate
This week I've been in Westborough, MA again, teaching a servlets and JSP course. The materials are, shall we say, dated, even though they've been revised to use RAD6. The rest of the time, however, I've been digging into Hibernate. I'll post more later, but I'm going through my list of challenges as I travel…
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Ajax (another try)
Since my previous post vanished into the ether, I'll try to regenerate it. Grr again. I spent this week developing Ajax materials for a client. They asked me to put together a half-day of materials, including PowerPoint slides and a lab. This request had a few elements in its favor: I really like this client…
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Ajax
I just wrote a long, thorough post on my Ajax materials development this week and it vanished when I tried to save it. Grrrrrrr.
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EJB’s in RAD6 in Columbus, OH
This week I'm in Columbus, Ohio, teaching a five-day EJB class in RAD6. As I learned last week, IBM would prefer I call the product IRAD, meaning IBM Rational Application Developer. That's going to be a tough transition, assuming I try to do it at all. The students this time are from the State of…
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IBM Enablement class, Bloomfield, CT
This week I'm sitting in an IBM enablement class for intro Java, servlets and JSP's, and the toolset (I think those are SW244, 284, and 287 for those keeping score at home). Since I've taught all this material many times, it's a bit of a challenge keeping quiet when I disagree with an approach. I'm…
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Phillies vs. Mets
Wow. That was really something. I just got back from Citizens Bank Park, the new stadium for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's a lovely little park. I remember visiting Veteran's Stadium a few times, and it was downright ugly. The turf was plastic, you could see the seams between sections, and even the sight lines were…
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Philadelphia, PA
It's Philly this week. I've got an interesting group who work for the same company last week's students work for. Maybe I can come up with some kind of inter-city competition — a game, a puzzle, or something. I'll have to think about that. This week is all about making the OO transition, but this…