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From 1st September 10, Sun Certification titles will be changed to Oracle Certification
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
Just came to know from Oracle website that they have completely integrated Sun certifications with Oracle certification program. The title of certification has been changed. Now Sun Certified Java Programmer will be know as Oracle Certified Professional, Java Programmer.
From Oracle website:
Effective September 1, 2010, all Java, Oracle Solaris, MySQL, Open Office and Oracle Solaris Cluster [...]
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Struts 2 Spring integration: a kickstart on using dependency injection
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
In this post you will find how we can integrate Spring with Struts2 through struts2-spring-plugin. And we will also see how we can use dependency injection. I assume that you are successfully running a Struts2 application. We will add our Spring integration code in that.
Lets take a scenario. You have an Interface DAO.java that has [...]
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Do you think to be an open source committer?
Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
We widely use open source developer tools and libraries in our daily dev life. These open source things are driven by community. I am an open source fan. And I think I must contribute to some open source project. Umm yeah, before I become a contributor I must be an active user of that project. [...]
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Div based UIs. Heaven or Hell for a developer?
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
At my work I have a large application that has all web pages in table based layout. The use of Div is just limited to hide and show some content area on web page. Same is the case with CSS. Using them for styling fonts and some formatting for tables. Like every developer (not designer) [...]
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New topics added in SCJP 6 Certification (CX-310-065)
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
Following are the points that are highlighted in Kathi Sierra and Bert Bates book on SCJP6.
1- Console class.
2- NavigableSet and NavigableMap.
3- Lower(int) and higher(int) function are added in Treeset collection.
4- Polling method in TreeSet and TreeMap.
5- TreeSet.descendingSet() and TreeMap.descendingMap().
Thanks to Bilal for discussing these points with me.
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Fetch Twitter friends or followers through REST API in Java
Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
I was playing around with fetching Twitter followers and friends with Twitter4J. But it was taking time to do that. So I code it with using REST urls given by Twitter. It fetches all your friends or followers. Depending upon your application that you want one list or you want to use paging. But I [...]
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Computer science is an attitude
Posted on 15. May, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
While discussion with one of my friends this term has been coined out. That people who are programmers or they solve computer problems, associated with different computer professions (but programming in particular). They have computer science in their lives.
Laws of nature
This thing generate in them an attitude of thinking every thing in the terms of [...]
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I have started preparing for SCJP
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Tahir Akram.
Its been a year since I purchased the voucher for SCJP 5.0. But I cant concentrate to have time to prepare it. From last night I have taken the oath to finally make it done. I have started with the book SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra [...]
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SCJP Plus Beta Certification exam delayed
Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
When I came to know that Sun is giving away the opportunity to sign up for newly launched SCJP i.e. Sun Java Programmer Plus certification. I registered for it. According to them Selected candidates will be given the opportunity to appear in beta test for free. But still they have this announcement on their website.
And [...]
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Google Code Jam is back for year 2009
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
Google has announced its annual programming competition for year 2009.
According to Google blog
Registration is now open, so you can find out more about the contest, and practice on some sample problems. Practice hard! If you make it to the top 500, you’ll travel to a nearby Google office for our semifinal round. If you’re in [...]
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