I recently deleted someone’s thread at coderanch where the post was just links to blog posts.  There’s a time and place for everything.  Which got me thinking about where it belongs.  Let’s look at some social media sites for Java. Sharing links Starting point is sharing links followed by comments/discussion.  I’m leaving out the framework [...]

This year the robotics team is using The Finch for teaching the new programmers about programming.  The robot is cute and I know I’d want to play with it so I bought one too. While I like Eclipse better than NetBeans, the programming team uses NetBeans.  I decided to try out NetBeans with the Finch so [...]

Google java 7 a bug’s life – for approach to bug Java 7 has come a long way since the Java road show 14 months ago when I blogged about what may or may not be in Java 7. And not always forwards. Oracle sent Donald Smith (director of project management with some coding knowledge) [...]