Plugs! Mission Metallica and Sun Java Tech Days

Metallica has a new album coming out. If you want to be a part of the epic making of this album, you can check out Mission: Metallica.
From metallica.com:
Mission: Metallica is your chance to be on the inside of the new album with fly on the wall video footage, riffs and excepts of the music, studio [...]

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Two reasons to celebrate

First is passing the SCJP certification exam. (Yay! It’s time to update the resumé!)
Second is passing the PFT (although barely) despite a huge physical limitation.

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SCJP note #2: On logical operators

Believe me, this day has positively raised my hopes on monetizing the blog and publicly offering internet services. To put my thoughts back on reviewing, I’m writing a very important thing I learned from my “last reading”. I had my training 2 years ago but I never concentrated on logical operators, short circuit logical operators, [...]

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To err is human

Even the SCJP examiners overlooked the following:

Like wha? I was totally troubled after reading the code above. How come the static methods are able to access the instance (non-static) variable? I re-read the previous chapter and typed and compiled the code on my own.
% javac Foo.java
Foo.java:11: non-static variable size cannot be referenced from a [...]

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SCJP note #1: On accessing protected members

To remind myself of important very important things I shouldn’t overlook in taking the SCJP exam, I shall (intermittently) post notes about it.
On accessing a protected member from a class of a different package (say Class1), even if another class (Class2) subclassed Class1, it still cannot use a reference to Class1 to access its protected [...]

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AJAXed!!!

I just found the link from the Javalobby.org newsletter. It’s IceFaces, an AJAX-solution that uses no JavaScript at all… I just saw the demo here and I’m enthusiastic about trying it.

I spent my bonus yesterday on a Memory Stick Pro, which I’ve been planning to install on my Sony digicam. My other option [...]

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Yahoo wa kataze!

Yaho watashi wa kataze! Panalo ang bagong Yahoo!
Apparently, new technologies carves the competition in every business, like these competing portal/search engine and other internet services. I first saw Google Mail (Gmail) using AJAX, then noticed Yahoo! Mail is slowly getting to that stage. Again now, it’s not only Y!Mail but the mail portal [...]

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