Tim Cooke

This week, we're delighted to have Peggy Fisher helping to answer questions about the new book Get Programming with Java (MEAP only).


The promotion starts Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 and will end on Friday, January 25th, 2019

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.


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I caught this on your Twitter this morning Jeanne.

Ingenious. Over-engineered. Brilliant!

He's making a list,
And checking it twice,
Gonna find out
Who's naughty and nice.
Santa Claus is contravening GDPR.

CR = CodeRanch
CR = Campbell Ritchie

The wheels have come off...

Campbell Ritchie wrote:I have lots of places to store documents; abbreviations can cause confusion.

Ha, that's exactly where I thought this thread was going too

I also found day 14 relatively straight forward, but even so it always takes me a few reads through the instructions to understand it properly.

Day 15 is officially a zinger

Copy and Paste is your friend for that one Mike.

Playing catch up here, got day 13 and 14 done today. Day 15 looks like a zinger and might be a little while before I'm ready to code anything at all.

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Peter Rooke wrote:Well done, now you can start to learn how to actually ride

Funny that's exactly what my instructor said to me when we got back from the test centre.

Cheers for the recommendation, I'll definitely be looking for something to help me get better at all the stuff they don't cover in the test, which as you say is just mooching about town for half an hour and briefly hitting 50 mph on a straight bit of dual carriage way. The journey begins

First, a big thanks to Craig Walls for being here to promote the book Spring in Action (5th edition).

The winners are:

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meenakshi sundar

Julian Isaac

Matt Campbell

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How did you find the tests? The theory was total nonsense IMO, the manoeuvres test was the toughest I'd say, and the on road test was just a nice waft around town for 40 minutes. I had never ridden a bike of any sort before starting out on lessons so was all very new and unusual but now feels great.

Do you have a bike in mind? I have a 15 mile journey to work on a dual carriageway so a Vespa wouldn't really be ideal for that, so I'm looking for something comfortable and nimble that won't try and kill me. Just need to hit some bike shops and see what they've got that I like.

Hey congrats!

What licence did you have before? A1 or A2? I had nothing but the AM (Moped) that I got by default when I passed my car test back in the mid 90s. Really looking forward to getting a bike now and going out by myself instead of having an instructor in tow all the time.

It's time to revisit this old discussion because yesterday I gained my full motorcycle licence I'm super chuffed!

In practice I think my motorcycle choice will come down to price, availability in my area, and whatever feels nice enough to ride.

I've dropped a day behind so today I have 4 outstanding puzzles, this is it, the beginning of my inevitable AoC demise.