[The Java Posse] Interview with top technical company

2011-04-14 Thread Marcelo
Hey guys! I was wondering if you can give me a hand. I live in gorgeous Miami Florida, and I have been wanting to make the job to one of th big tech companies (Netflix, Google, Amazon, etc). I worked for big companies here in Miami, but now I've been doing mostly start-ups (loove them!). I'm al

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Josh Berry
2011/4/14 Cédric Beust ♔ : > I think the only languages that have successfully tackled the "statically > typed XML in Java" problem so far are Fantom (take a look at how they define > GUI's in pure Fantom) and JavaFX. Scala's support for XML literals bridges > some gap there but not in the same sea

[The Java Posse] Re: Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Casper Bang
> I think the only languages that have successfully tackled the "statically > typed XML in Java" problem so far are Fantom (take a look at how they define > GUI's in pure Fantom) and JavaFX. Yup, I hinted at that earlier too. What I can't grok is whether Ceylon is superior here and can operate wit

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > I'm hoping I'll be seeing some actual innovations and not just a loose > collection of 'lets fix java things'. This notion of offering a structural > way to store hierarchical data in the language itself in order to ditch the > frequent

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
I've yet to watch the presentations but colour me surprised at the vaporware nature, too. Spending a lot of time hashing out a language "on paper" is, if you ask me, very much the wrong way to go about it. The basics are relatively trivial, especially for someone who has been secretly thinking

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Java certification lecture ?

2011-04-14 Thread Carl Jokl
As an aside that the Certified Java Programmer was well provided for as regards revision however many other of the certifications have little of any revision material available. I think this might have been a deliberate ploy to encourage people to sign up for the expensive all inclusive training co

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Java certification lecture ?

2011-04-14 Thread Carl Jokl
I can vouch for this book. It was my primary source of revision for SCJP and I passed first time with it. It really helps to open your eyes as to how the exam questions try to catch you out. It can be disheartening at first when you have Java experience but keep getting caught out by example questi

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Java certification lecture ?

2011-04-14 Thread ags
Kathy Sierra's http://www.amazon.co.uk/Certified-Programmer-Study-Guide-CX-310-065/dp/0071591060/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1302782993&sr=8-2 is usually recommended for this exam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this grou

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Jess Holle
On 4/13/2011 8:42 PM, Alan Kent wrote: Scala has some cool looking features, but maybe its because I jump between so many projects and don't stick with any particular code base for so long, all the DSL like stuff in Scala puts me off. This is what really put me off with Ceylon -- too much DSL-li

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Java certification lecture ?

2011-04-14 Thread Casper Bang
Books don't teach people how to program, however Head First Java is good at explaining Java fundamentals. PS: Wow, one passes even if having 42% of answers wrong?! On Apr 14, 11:49 am, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > Does somebody know what book(s) is best suited to prepare for this exam ? > > http://edu

[The Java Posse] Oracle Java certification lecture ?

2011-04-14 Thread Jan Goyvaerts
Does somebody know what book(s) is best suited to prepare for this exam ? http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_851#1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group,

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Roland Tepp
Nobody has actually claimed it would or should jump ahead of java. Granted, at this moment it is by the admission of the presentation only a vaporlang, but given they will pull te compiler and library part off, this might actually come to be rather nice language to work with... Now for the 2 ye