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I have been through my second week at Code Academy. We started using Rails and some of the Rails commands. So far it seems pretty nice. It is a lot easier than the Java frameworks I have worked with. I went to a lecture on  HTML5/CSS by Shay Howe. I may not make to every [...]

Here is my late blog post about my first week at Code Academy. First off, getting up that early is pretty tough. I am trying to become a morning person. So far I am doing okay. We use pair programming in class, and so far I have had a different partner each time. My partner [...]

I have decided to learn other technologies during my job search. I applied to Code Academy here in Chicago. It is a 12-week program that teaches Ruby on Rails and entrepreneurship. I am also interested in Clojure and Android, but I decided that I needed to sign up for some training to give myself some [...]

My post about Project Lombok was mentioned on Paper.li. One of my Twitter followers (a lovely young woman from Tunisia who is now in Paris) has a few of these daily newspapers set up. One of them is called Java And Beyond. (My post is waaaay down near the bottom.)  I think what it does [...]

I am still going through the Rails 3 Tutorial by Michael Hartl. I am not implementing the examples as I go through it; I am reading it on the CTA as I go to and from work. I will implement them when I am done. I am able to follow most of it. I have [...]

For several months I have been attending the Chicago Ruby meetups. I am now going to get serious about learning Ruby. At one of the recent meetings a few books were raffled off, and I won one of them: Ruby On Rails 3 Tutorial, by Michael Hartl. I have to review it. I have heard [...]

A couple of weeks ago I went to a technology conference at CME Group, arranged by Chicago Java Users Group‘s CME Contact, @agilefugue. There were three tracks: JVM languages, handing big data (Hadoop, caching) and agile methodologies. I attended one of the big data talks and two of the JVM language talks: Scala with Daniel [...]

There is a thread on the Apache James mailing list about making an application to manage Apache James to replace the Remote Manager telnet application. A few people mentioned JMX. Someone mentioned the James Admin Web App, and someone else emailed me off-list. The James Admin Web App uses JSF and Hibernate to change the [...]

The machine I was using for my firewall died last week. So I went to Best Buy and got a small wireless router and I am now using that for my firewall. I ran ShieldsUP! on all my systems, and so far everything seems to be running as expected. I paid only $70 for this [...]

I started a new job yesterday. So I may not be posting too much new stuff lately. However, I may post some old stuff. My desktop came back from Best Buy. They had to replace the motherboard, and I had to re-install Ubuntu. So I lost all of my files. (I have been making DVDs [...]