Jeanne Boyarsky

Satyaprakash Joshii wrote:

Well sure. Different people code at different rates. However, there's not a one to one mapping with experience/pay. Lots of factors go into it.

Yes. I am the most senior developer in the team. They have more expectations from me.
....Deciding where one would spend time requires authority too.

So you are the most senior developer but not empowered to make these decisions. That seems awkward!

CodeRanch Book Promotions - This Year's Winners

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A big Congratulations to all our winners!

See our BookPromotions2017Winners

Date	Cover	Book	Author(s)	Publisher	Winners	Status
January 2		Architecting Modern Java EE Applications	Sebastian Daschner	Packt	Ravi Desigan, Tim Holloway, Charles O'Leary, Esteban Suarez	Sent in winners 1/21/18; Received (1/22/18 Charles O'Leary)
January 9		Getting started with Spring Framework: covers Spring 5	J Sharma & Ashish Sarin	Create Space	Ravi Saluru, J Kilgrow, Ramadan Pajaziti, David Sachdev	Sent in winners 1/21/18
January 23		Kubernetes in Action	Marko Luksa	Manning	T Vergilio, Daniel Owen Williams, Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, Tim Holloway	Winner reported received 4/20/18
January 30		The Tao of Microservices	J Richard Rodger	Manning	Daniel Demesmaecker, Dave Tolls, Ankur R Jain, Brian Burress	Sent in winners 2/11/18; Received (18/4/18, Dave Tolls)
February 6		Get Programming with Scala (MEAP only)	Daniela Sfregola	Manning	paul nisset, Alex Khvatov, Will Myers, Thomas Zink	Sent in winner info (3/18/18); Received (Will Myers 18/4/18)
February 13		RESTful Service with JAX-RS 2.0 (Lynda three month subscription)	Alex Theedom	Lynda	Satya Priya Sundar, Shantha Dodmane, Pankaj Sonani, Stephan van Hulst	Sent in winner info (3/18/18)
February 27		Java SE 9 for the Impatient	Cay Horstmann	Addison-Wesley Professional	Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, Aysenur Eroglu, Campbell Ritchie, Andrew McDonald	Winner reported received (3/25/18)
March 20		Java EE 8 High Performance	Romain Manni-Bucau	Packt	paul nisset, Thomas Zink, David Sachdev, Alex Shykhman	Winners sent (4/22/18)
March 27		Java EE 8 - Only What's New (e-book)	Alex Theedom	Lean Publishing	Claude Moore, R.J. Arzki, Randy Maddocks, Naresh Doniparti	Winners sent (4/19/18); (R.J Arzki - received on 26.04.2018)
April 3		Effective Java	Josh Bloch	Addison-Wesley	Stephan van Hulst, Rob Spoor, Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, Granit Berisha	Winner reported received (4/29/18)
April 10		Murach's HTML5 and CSS3	Anne Boehm & Zak Ruvalcaba	Murach	Charles O'Leary, Bear Bibeault, Thomas Zink, Wex Wuffley	Winners sent (5/20/18);Received (5/23/18 Charles O'Leary)
April 17		Java by Comparison (e-book)	Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz	Pragmatic Press	Martin McNicholas, Campbell Ritchie, Norm Radder, Timur Radzhabov	Winners sent (5/20/18)
April 24		Securing DevOps	Julien Vehent	Manning	Chun Chu, Rafael Morales, satya Priya Sundar, Noorul Hameed	Winners sent (5/20/18)
May 1		Kafka Streams in Action	Bill Bejeck	Manning	Noorul Hameed, Tim Holloway, Lanny Gilbert, R.J. Arzki	Winners sent (5/20/18)
May 8		Testing Java Microservices	Alex Soto Bueno and Jason Porter	Manning	Paul Ramsden, meenakshi sundar, Stelios Ntilis, Al Hobbs	Winners sent (7/1/18)
May 22		OCP Java SE 8 Programmer II Exam Study Guide	Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Elizabeth Robson	McGraw-Hill	Noorul Hameed, Charles O'Leary, Kent O. Johnson, Jonathan Damron	Winners sent (7/1/18); Received (9/4/18 Charles O'Leary)
June 5		Optimizing Java	Ben Evans, James Gough & Chris Newland	O'Reilly	Michael Krimgen, Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, Tim Holloway, ludoviko azuaje	Winner reported received (7/8/18)
June 5		Openshift in Action	Jamie Duncan & John Osborne	Manning	paul nisset, Lukas Machacek, Carlos Solano, Timur Radzhabov	Winners sent (7/1/18); (Ludoviko A. received on 07/10/18)
June 12		Get Programming with JavaScript Next	J.D. Isaacks	Manning	Bear Bibeault, Cody Biggs, Godfred Kofi, Pete Letkeman	Winners sent (7/1/18)
June 12		Scala for Java Developers	Toby Weston	Apress	Zach Rode, Lukas Machacek, German Gonzalez-Morris, Janeice DelVecchio	Winners sent (7/1/18)
June 19		Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift	David Kopec	Manning	Piet Souris, German Gonzalez-Morris, Kent O. Johnson	Winners sent (7/1/18)
June 26		The Quick Python Book, Third Edition	Naomi Ceder	Manning	Timur Radzhabov, Patricia McCormick, paul nisset, Rick Silva	Winners sent (7/30/18)
July 10		Redux in Action	Marc Garreau & Will Faurot	Manning	Salil Wadnerkar, Bear Bibeault, Wirianto Djunaidi , Cody Biggs	Winners sent (7/30/18)
July 17		Machine Learning Systems	Jeff Smith	Manning	German Gonzalez-Morris, Raj Govindaraju, Zach Rode, Piet Souris	Winners sent (7/30/18)
July 17		Xamarin in Action	Jim Bennett	Manning	Pete Letkeman, Tim Moores, Kondwani Chipeta, Carlos Solano	Winners sent (7/30/18)
July 24		React in Action	Mark Tielens Thomas	Manning	Phelipe Maia, Lanny Gilbert, Bear Bibeault, Stephan van Hulst	Winners sent (8/21/18)
July 31		OCA Java Programmer 8 Fundamentals 1Z0-808 (e-book)	Hanumant Deshmukh	Enthuware	Noorul Hameed, Piet Souris, Randy Maddocks, Esteban Suarez	Winners sent (8/21/18)downloaded at 8/23/18 (Piet Souris)
August 14		Bad Programming Practices 101 (e-book)	Karl Beecher	Apress	lee ji eun, Randy Too , Manish Pamnani , Chris Whitcomb	Received (9/12/18 Randy Too)
August 21		Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days: Build a real world full stack mobile app in Java	Shai Almog	Codename One Academy	Heidi Koester, Michael Krimgen, Islam Moheb, Jason Delaney	Winners sent (09/12/2018 Islam Moheb received e-book)
August 28		Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices	Rhuan Rocha & Joao Purificacao	Packt Press	meenakshi sundar, Esteban Suarez, German Gonzalez-Morris , dhwani parekh	Winners sent (09/12/2018 German Gonzalez-Morris received ebook)
September 11		Software Design X-Rays (e-book)	Adam Tornhill	Pragmatic Press	darren hartford, Junilu Lacar, Michael Angstadt, German Gonzalez-Morris	Sent in winners (10/3/18) (German Gonzalez-Morris received ebook)
September 18		The Journey to Enterprise Agility	Daryl Kulak & Hong Li	Springer	Hong Lii , Jorge Ruiz-Aquino , Junilu Lacar, German Gonzalez-Morris	Winner reporte dreceived (10/16/18)
September 25		Pragmatic AI	Noah Gift	Addison-Wesley Professional	Ninad Kulkarni, Salil Wadnerkar, Carl Byrd, Randy Maddocks	Sent in winners (10/3/18)
October 2		Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook	Alessandro Molina	Packt	Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, Eusebio Floriano, Tim Holloway, Scott Mac Donald	Waiting on winners info
October 9		Cloud Native Architectures	Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr & Piyum Zonooz	Packt	Billy Tsai, Suresh Kumar Sethuramasamy, Salil Wadnerkar, Jorge Ruiz-Aquino	Waiting for winners info
October 16		Learning OpenStack Networking: Build a solid foundation in virtual networking technologies for OpenStack-based clouds	James Denton	Packt	Greg Horie, Carl Byrd	Waiting for winners info

Note: All dates in mm/dd/yyyy format.

Go back to the main BookPromotions page.

For questions about this page or to schedule a promotion, contact: bookpromotion AT javaranch DOT com

Scheduled promotions:

Note: We can run more than one promo in a given week, so check for updates.

Starting Date	Cover	Book	Author(s)	Publisher	CodeRanch Forum
October 23		Learning Regular Expressions	Ben Forta	Addison-Wesley Professional	General Computing
October 30		Java Projects: Learn the fundamentals of Java 11 programming by building industry grade practical projects	Peter Verhas	Packt	Beginning Java
November 6		Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery: Build and release quality software at scale with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI	Jean-Marcel Belmont	Packt	Build Tools
November 13	Available
November 20	No Promo - US Holiday
November 27	Available
December 4		Modern Java in Action	Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco & Alan Mycroft	Manning	Lambdas & Streams
December 11		Spring in Action (5th edition)	Craig Walls	Manning	Spring
December 18		Microservices in Action	Morgan Bruce & , Paulo A. Pereira	Manning	Web Services
December 25	No Promo - Holiday
January 1	No Promo - Holiday
January 8		Electron in Action	Steve Kinney	Manning	Server Side JavaScript & Node
January 15	Available
January 22	Available
January 29	Available

Go back to the main BookPromotions page.

First, a big thanks to James Denton for being here to promote the book Learning OpenStack Networking: Build a solid foundation in virtual networking technologies for OpenStack-based clouds.

The winners are:

Greg Horie
Carl Byrd

(Yes, that's right. There were only two eligible posters)

Please send your snail mail address to bookpromotion AT javaranch DOT com. To ensure the quickest response, please provide the following:

Your name (first and last - if your CodeRanch name is different, please include both your real name and Ranch name)
Email
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Book Promo Winner - Learning OpenStack Networking: Build a solid foundation in virtual networking technologies for OpenStack-based clouds - Tuesday, October 16th, 2018


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As noted in the Book Promotion Eligibility Requirements and Legal type stuff, the winners have 8 days to submit their information. Within 3 days of receipt of your email, we will reply to let you know we got it. If you don't hear back, the goat might have eaten your email. Please let us know by posting in the Ranch Office so we can check on it. Once you have received your copy please let us know by editing the Book Promotions Winners Page and updating the 'Status' column to say you have it.

Thanks and congrats to all the winners.

James,
I gave you 5 cows as our guest.

I see there are some questions in the Cloud forum for you so you'll see those the next time you stop in!

This week, we're delighted to have James Denton helping to answer questions about the new book Learning OpenStack Networking: Build a solid foundation in virtual networking technologies for OpenStack-based clouds.

Packt is offering a 60% discount code for the e-book of this title: LONTE60. You can also read the table of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 and will end on Friday, October 19th, 2018

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


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

Yaroslav,
Welcome to CodeRanch! In the future, please indicate the publisher of the book. I've edited the title to include it.

As far as the question, three answers are "javac compiles a..." and three are of the form "Java takes the name"... So you are picking the best match in each group vs reading into semantics. The real exam tells you how many answers are correct as well which serves as an extra sanity check.

Mohammed,
Welcome to CodeRanch!

This is a very specific regional question so I recommend visiting the testing center if nobody replies. You don't need the best center, you just need a decent one!

For the most part, centers are good. I've only been to one that was a problem (in New York).

From my blog

Then there was the center I was at today.  They gave me a *one sided* erasable markerboard to write on.  But that’s within their rights.  If you want paper, you should call and ask.  The exam was held in what looked like a closet.  A small table with two computers and poor ventilation.  It was hot!  And no soundproofing.  I heard everyone who walked into the office while I was there.  Which included an irate customer who had computer troubles and was dissatisfied with the speed at which they were fixing it (this went on for 10 minutes) and another potential customer who was inquiring about training. It was loud enough that I had to hold my ears to think.  Which doesn’t go well with using a mouse to select answers or trace code on paper.

I'lll start:

If you've never argued about why deadlines are impossible, you have at least another level to master before calling yourself a programmer.

If _______________, you have at least another level to master before calling yourself a programmer.

This meme is going around on twitter. Want to try filling it in?

88% is a good score. Also, remember that it is a pass/fail exam. You passed by a good margin!

Welcome to CodeRanch!

That's not how this site works. You still need to Do you own Homework. You can ask specific questions when you get stuck.

If you are already stuck, start small. Do you know how to write a loop that prints the numbers one to 10? Do you know how to read from a file?

Paolo,
Welcome to CodeRanch!

Lines 2 and 7 are instance initializers. (Which gives us 2 and choice C).

Which other line do you think should be counted?  If it's the constructor, that's a constructor not an instance initializer block.

Also a shout out to Kamal. The winner program had trouble automatically excluding the authors this week (I think because there were so many of them.)

Kamal made a bunch of the randomly generate posts!

First, a big thanks to Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr & Piyum Zonooz for being here to promote the book Cloud Native Architectures.

If you didn't win, remember Packt is offering a 60% discount code for the e-book of this title: CNA60

The winners are:

Billy Tsai
Suresh Kumar Sethuramasamy
Salil Wadnerkar
Jorge Ruiz-Aquino

Please send your snail mail address to bookpromotion AT javaranch DOT com. To ensure the quickest response, please provide the following:

Your name (first and last - if your CodeRanch name is different, please include both your real name and Ranch name)
Email
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Address
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Book Promo Winner - Cloud Native Architectures - Tuesday, October 9th, 2018


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As noted in the Book Promotion Eligibility Requirements and Legal type stuff, the winners have 8 days to submit their information. Within 3 days of receipt of your email, we will reply to let you know we got it. If you don't hear back, the goat might have eaten your email. Please let us know by posting in the Ranch Office so we can check on it. Once you have received your copy please let us know by editing the Book Promotions Winners Page and updating the 'Status' column to say you have it.

Thanks and congrats to all the winners.