Hello Java Users Some of you may be able to help me. I have written many applets using Java 2 which I would like to use in applications in which I wish to...
Rory Barrett
ramses@...
Jan 1, 2007 8:08 pm
2178
The last few topics at http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro/ may be useful. It's a well structured, free, online, do-anytime, course that may be helpful before...
Thanks for this tip however I really want the help I indicated rather quickly and it would seem that the topics I'm interested don't come up for a number of...
Rory Barrett
ramses@...
Jan 1, 2007 11:20 pm
2180
All the course material is online at the link in my last email. For instance - for the the JDBC "lecture" download the material at: ...
Good afternoon A small question but one which is a bit of a puzzle. I am using Netbeans and am trying to create an application. I have a small problem. I...
Rory Barrett
ramses@...
Jan 7, 2007 1:28 am
2182
I am pleased to announce that our next Wellington Java User Group meeting will be held on: Wednesday, January 17th 2007 5pm for 5:15- 6:30pm The venue is to...
Nigel Charman
Nigel.Charman@...
Jan 9, 2007 3:26 am
2183
I'm looking for a flexible approach to working with Java source code. I want to be able to analyze and modify existing Java source (both code and comments), as...
OpenCloud has announced it has secured US$10.25m in institutional funding. "The funding will support OpenCloud’s sales, marketing, delivery and product...
Nigel Charman
Nigel.Charman@...
Jan 10, 2007 4:12 am
2185
Somewhere around I found a project that had built a java AST which could read and write java code verbatim. Was intended for use in tools and was released ...
Thanks, Michael - I hadn't realized there was a BSD version of the Jalopy code around, I'll look into that. I prefer to avoid GPL licensed components, since...
Hi, I have built and open sourced a ORM Persistence Layer called Ebean. http://www.avaje.org I'm looking for people to have a look and give me some feedback on...
Funny, I was just saying that "Somewhere, someone is beavering away at a simpler version of hibernate!" Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I know it may sound odd, had an old friend email me: "One of our clients is expanding rapidly globally. They're looking to take on top-quality software...
One quick question for those that may have opinions on the matter. The university I study at (a big university in the centre of Auckland) is dropping this year...
Having been someone who worked at the University for some years (1993-1997) in the IS part of the MSIS department and did both a Computer Science degree,...
Hi Richard, Thanks for your response. You're kind of getting at what I'm talking about. I could have actually framed my question better. You would you rather...
You gotta be realistic, industry wants people they can use straight away, not ones they have to pay to get the skills they require. What the University IMHO...
Hi John, My own opinion on this is that the practical skills which are really important are very difficult to teach in a university environment. I'm thinking...
... It's always interesting meeting developers from different backgrounds. Some are programmers, some are computer scientists, some are software engineers. I...
Hello Java users A question many of you probably regard as trivial but here it is. It is very easy to write a program which changes the text in a textfield...
Rory Barrett
ramses@...
Jan 12, 2007 11:29 pm
2197
As someone who has interviewed many, many graduate candidates, these are the qualities and I look for in a grad (in no particular order): - Good grades. One C...
I'd defn agree with Gerhard (tho I'm in the .NET space). We have had people come from various backgrounds - Java, C++, .NET, ASP - and it only made a small...
Hi Rory, It's been while since I did any Swing development, but I'm sure its still pretty much the same. The important thing to remember when you're using...
Hello Java users This is deadright. table.getModel..... works a treat. Another question, also probably trivial to you folk. In an application you might declare...
Rory Barrett
ramses@...
Jan 14, 2007 7:52 pm
2202
Welcome to the wonderful world of layout managers..... Get a copy of "Desktop Java Live" by Scott Delap asap. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
By the sound of it both you (Nic) and Gerhard would then not have hired this person: http://tinyurl.com/ylqlxf I am really worried about the direction in which...
... Um, in general, I would have. First thing I do is google the person. :) (I've known about Larry for a long time - since he (almost) did Thinking in .NET...
... I confess: I do this as well. And I get worried about both candidates and managers who have no footprint on the Internet :-) ... But they are still taken...
... I think it depends on the person, but I usually do it :) Final-year uni projects are good, too. ie, the ones that take all year to do, in a group. ... ...