There’s been a growing number of users claiming have issues installing Apple’s new Snow Leopard operating system that was released yesterday, and as I was one of those users, I thought I’d share my experience. I purchased the Family pack of Snow Leopard to install on 3 Mac’s in my home, all Intel-based, relatively new [...]

What happened to the SCJP Java Programmer Plus Certification? It got delayed.  As Campbell noted late this year is likely overly optimistic. Announcement e-mail follows: Update! Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification Beta Dear Jeanne, Thank you for your interest in the Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification – Sun’s first performance based Java Certification exam. We [...]

When people ask me how to learn to use a database or how to write SQL queries, I tell them to pick a database system and immerse themselves in it. In fact that advice goes for a lot of software technologies: just immerse yourself in a language, as programming tutorials are easy to come by [...]