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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: The Average Salary for Java Developers
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Monday, November 20, 2006. The Average Salary for Java Developers. Every now and then I like to have a look at what the average wage is for a Java developer, I found quite an interesting site with a lot of statistics on. I am like everyone else and love statistics to look at , although every time I look at these statistics they seem quite high, especially considering they have another section for contract work. here is the link. Skills across the UK. Over the las...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Constructor conundrum
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Thursday, December 07, 2006. I found an interesting constructor type conundrum this week. The variables where initially private final Strings but then the constructor complained it couldn't see these values in a constructor. I got around the problem by making the values Static because I didn't actually want to change these values for each instance of the class. Cannot refer to an instance field variable name whilst explicitly invoking a constructor". Test Driven ...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Sometimes you need to write defensive code
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Monday, December 04, 2006. Sometimes you need to write defensive code. An Example of this is protecting your code from invalid parameters/inputs. If a user can't be bothered to pass in the right inputs don't let your code try and wrestle with it. Check them variables being passed in and throw the appropriate error if they are not valid. An important point here is to make sure you document what is valid and invalid in your JavaDoc. The reason I am blogging about d...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Date is depreciated - Calander is King
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Date is depreciated - Calander is King. This week I had been working with dates which is sure sign of a lot of tricky nitpicking code and lots of little methods each testing certain bits of the code. Http:/ java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html. Firstly the Calendar class is abstract so to get an instance of it you have to do this. Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();. Earlier on in the day though I was want...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Is Java getting bloated?
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Thursday, November 30, 2006. Is Java getting bloated? A friend of mine sent me an email today pointing me towards Stroustrup's web page, for those of you who don't know he is the person who invented C . Here is his homepage http:/ www.research.att.com/ bs/. And it's quite interesting (even for a Java person). In particular caught my eye. Is Java the language you would have designed if you didn't have to be compatible with C? It's interesting about his point that ...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Is certification becoming less popular as developer retention becomes more important?
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Tuesday, November 07, 2006. Is certification becoming less popular as developer retention becomes more important? I read this article today with the title. Another Nail in the Coffin of IT Certification. A nice dramatic title if ever I saw one. Still it is an interesting point and I love this quote. Certified skills pay has not just flat lined, it's in the negative. This is big news if you're certified and you're thinking about getting recertified," said Foote.
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: My first steps using MySql
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Tuesday, December 05, 2006. My first steps using MySql. I have been using MySQL this week which is my first foray into the MySQL world and I'm happy to say it has been a nice easy ride. I haven't done anything fancy with it, in fact I have really only be using it to create two very basic tables but basically I needed a database and MySql is free so it was a good choice. Or you can look at my code. INSERT into sites (ipaddress, sitename) values. Which is a blog ab...
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World: Computer industry 'faces crisis'
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A Funny Java Flavoured Look at the World. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Computer industry 'faces crisis'. I read this article last week but didn't have time to blog about it, I found this on the BBC and this isn't the first time I have read an article in this vain, the title is Computer industry 'faces crisis'. The article is about the number of students studying computers at university has dropped dramitically. Today" type of warbling. If you like this blog or and fancy something a bit less technical with...
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Hoskinators Voyage into the Center of Culterverse: Imagine if you laid an egg with Paul Daniels inside
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Hoskinators Voyage into the Center of Culterverse. Its a blog about books, Music, films, tv programs, comedy and interesting things I bump into whilst I live and breath. Friday, November 27, 2009. Imagine if you laid an egg with Paul Daniels inside. Imagine if you laid an egg with Paul Daniels inside. Brilliant podcast is the brain birth of the. Enigma who is obsessed with putting the word. Into as many things as possible, he is also the inventor of the. Http:/ hoskshalfhour.blogspot.com/.
