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  SYS-CON Radio Host Keith Brown interviews Lewis K. Cirne, Founder and CTO, Wily Technology Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Ian Shigeoka

  SYS-CON Radio Host Keith Brown interviews Iain Shigeoka, author of Instant Messaging in Java (Manning Publications) Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

Java Beyond the Server

Happy New Year! I trust you had a good festive break...not drinking or eating too much. Who am I? Good question. My name is Keith Brown and I'm the new J2SE editor of Java Developer's Journal. As this is the first issue of the new year, our editor-in-chief felt it was the perfect time for me to kick off and bring my flavor of Java to you each month. My professional history is varied, so t... (more)

To Be or Not To Be Certified…

Yesterday I received an A4 piece of cardboard from Sun Microsystems signed by Scott McNealy. I peered at the signature and angled it to the light to see if it was a printed signature or a real one from the pen of Mr. McNealy himself. It was hard to tell. The piece of cardboard said that I had "Fulfilled all requirements as a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform." Hooray! All t... (more)

The Ideal Way Forward for Software Development

My mother bought a computer for her birthday, the usual affair – Windows, printer, scanner, speakers, etc. She’s a complete novice and needless to say, she’s having a hard time working the thing. Her main complaint (I think in relation to word processing) is that it does far too many things that she doesn’t want it to do and the terminology is confusing. I can empathize – as a Java progra... (more)