September 2011 Blog Posts (7)

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5/SE 6 Preparation Article

Oracle offers variety of Java Certifications for all Java Editions (Java SE, Java EE and Java ME).  Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5/SE 6 (Formerly Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA) ) certification provides basic knowledge required to manage a Java project.

 

What exam I need to pass to achieve OCA for Java SE 6 Certification?



You need to complete 1Z0-850 – Java Standard Edition 5 and 6, Certified Associate Exam to…

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Added by Treacy Jane on September 30, 2011 at 6:11am — No Comments

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing (Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Email Marketing) articles.

Added by Treacy Jane on September 28, 2011 at 9:11am — No Comments

Online Exam and Certification Preparation

You can find out articles about online exam and certification preparation

Added by Treacy Jane on September 28, 2011 at 9:07am — No Comments

GroovyFX, Getting started.

Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform.  Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…

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Added by Jim Clarke on September 27, 2011 at 4:51pm — No Comments

New Quartz-2.1.0 and MySchedule-2.1.2 release is out

Hi there,

 

I have couple announcements.

 

First: Do you need Java scheduling? How about try out an easy web based UI with Quartz!

Both myschedule-2.1.2 (for Quartz-2.1.0) and myschedule-1.5.2(for Quartz-1.8.5) releases are available for download here: http://code.google.com/p/myschedule/downloads/list



I have fixed few bugs and improved the UI slightly. Both of these releases should…

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Added by Zemian Deng on September 25, 2011 at 10:24am — No Comments

Overview of the JCertif 2011 conference from The Republic of Congo

Here's a recap of what happened at the JCertif 2011 conference in Brazzaville from Chrisobel Malonga:

 

"Hello with all, I take a few minutes in order to announce to you how much JCertif 2011 of which you are the actors at summer a true success and a true human adventure which was worth the cost d' to be lived. My arrival on the spot dated August 27 m' allowed…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 19, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

JCertif Congo photos!

Looks like Max uploaded some photos! Check 'em out here. All the best, Mike - see ya at the OrlandoJUG… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on September 15, 2011 at 8:28am — 2 Comments

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