Archive for May, 2015
ocp java 8 programmer II beta
May 29th, 2015 by Jeanne BoyarskyScott and I both took the OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) Java 8 Programmer II beta exam this week. (edit: I’m now OCP certified with an 88%) Logistics We both had 106 questions. It was a three hour exam. I needed two hours for my first pass of the questions. I marked about 25 questions for […]
Posted: 29 May, 2015 in OCP Book.
Tags: cert, Java/Java EE, ocp, ocpjp
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good customer service – two examples
May 19th, 2015 by Jeanne BoyarskyI’ve blogged a couple times about poor customer service (Verizon/Time Warner.) I had two nice experiences with customer service today. Southwest I had booked a flight on Southwest Airlines for a trip and the date of the trip changed. Southwest has a policy that you can change your flight without penalty – and just pay […]
Posted: 19 May, 2015 in Java/Java EE.
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handling mistakes in presenting
May 3rd, 2015 by Jeanne BoyarskyYesterday, I gave a presentation to about 30 teenagers about the upcoming FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) transition from Robot-C to Java. I agreed to do it a week ago while on vacation. This meant I didn’t have any weekend days to actually write up the deck. I wound up doing it the night before. The […]
Posted: 3 May, 2015 in Toastmasters.
Tags: ftc, Java/Java EE, presenting
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