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Android Town
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Scala
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Testing Town
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Database SIG
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- What are your main interests in software development?
- Mostly I'm interested in java web development.
In particular: JSR299 (JCDI, formerly known as Web Beans), Seam, JSF (mojarra), JPA (hibernate), richfaces.
Joda-time is also really cool.
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Sorry, I haven't gotten back to you in months. I meant to, but kept forgetting. Unfortunately I ended up missing half of Barcamp Tampa due to wireless issues on my netbook at home that I really really wanted to fix/figure out. Barcamp Tampa was cool. http://twitter.com/JamesTryon gave a talk on freelancing and http://twitter.com/xentek gave a really good talk on the nginx web server :)! Barcamp Orlando is April 3rd - http://www.barcamporlando.org/ check it out :). Hope things are going well with you.
It was good getting a chance to talk with you too :)