This is a great commentary by Ted Neward on a blog post on the pitfalls of junior developers: the importance of asking questions, and realizing as a junior developer (and we all have areas where we are junior developers, regardless of industry experience), you don’t know everything.
Time traveller brings J2EE back to the future from 2006
I’m sorry, J2EE? You realise Java EE has not officially called ‘J2EE’ since the release of Java EE 5 back in 2006, right? It’s now 2012. That’s SIX YEARS AGO.
For a while after the name changes it was acceptable and common to hear all combinations of the names, for example, referring to Java EE 5 as J2EE 1.5. The last EE version with the J2EE name was J2EE 1.4, released in 2003.
When I hear J2EE today, it tells me one of the following:
- you haven’t actually worked hands on with Java since roughly 2006. At some point in the past you did have some hands on experience, but not recently, at least not in the last few years
- you’ve been working with J2EE 1.4 technology since 2006
- you’ve been working in cave in 2006 and have just emerged to get some sunlight
- you just picked up an old copy of a J2EE book and decided to learn Java Enterprise technology, not realizing how old the book was, or the fact that it’s not vastly out of date
- you possess a time machine and have just traveled to the future from 2006
Please – if you haven’t worked with Java technology for the last six years, please try and get up to date. A lot has changed in the last six years.
Also, if you have been working in the technological cave (a long running development project) for the past six years… you owe it to yourself and your career to try and keep more up to date with the tools that you use.
What’s Apple going to do with it’s $100 billion in cash?
Apple are holding a press conference Monday morning at 9am EST to announce their plans related to their cash reserves. What does one do with $100 billion in cash? Buy out all your competitors? Give away free iPads to every person on the planet? Find out tomorrow morning.
Beautiful web UIs with Twitter Bootstrap
Wow. I’ve never come across this before. Twitter Bootstrap is a collection of CSS and Javascript to give your website/webapp a beautiful UI style. Very cool.