Jeanne Boyarsky

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This week, we're delighted to have Morgan Bruce & Paulo A. Pereira helping to answer questions about the new book Microservices in Action.
See the table of contents or sample chapter 1 or sample chapter 6.

Also, did you see that Manning has:
Countdown to 2019 - a chance to win free e-booksA Go Tournament - more free books


The promotion starts Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 and will end on Friday, December 21st, 2018

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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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.

Manning updated the tournament. It's easier to sign up now and you get 3 books/a live video to read until the contest ends. There's also a 40% off code.

Harry,
It's kind of like measuring participation. It's about effort more than subject mastery.

Harry Kar wrote:! seems no sense from an educative perspective or from an instructor's point of view ... or i misunderstood  it?

It's easy to measure . If the goal is to teach them that forums exist, it would accomplish that goal.

Unfortunately, it isn't phrased as three meaningful posts. My grad school required three substantive posts in the class forum. However, there were only about 12 of us so it was easy for the instructor to check.

Michael,
Welcome to CodeRanch!

Can you add ex.printStackTrace() to the program before
System.out.println("Didn't create a FileScanner to count the Tags");

This will tell you which line number the NullPointer is on. Then post which line that is (and what code is on that line so we can recognize it.)

Roel De Nijs wrote:Although it's not really an errata item, it might be taken into consideration as an improvement for a next version of the study guide.

Yes! I've given both you and Richard a cow for this.

Here's a draft of what I'm planning on updating the verbiage to:

The authors live in the United States, making the output look like the following when run on December 15 at approximately 1:30 p.m.:

2018-12-15
13:30:24.791372
2018-12-15T13:30:24.791537

The key is to notice the type of information in the output. The first one contains only a date and no time. The second contains only a time and no date. This time displays hours, minutes, seconds, and nanosecondsnanoseconds. The third contains both date and time. Java uses T to separate the date and time when converting LocalDateTime to a String.

When you run time code, you might see more or less digits printed after the decimal point. When printing a date, Java tries to make the fractional seconds look as nice as possible. If there are no nanoseconds, the decimal and everything after is omitted. If there are a small number of nanoseconds, only three digits will be displayed after the decimal point. Similarly, six or nine digits can be displayed.

It turns out this isn't actually an errata. It is really confusing and we are going to make it clearer. See this thread for details on what is happening.

Judith,
Basic JavaBean questions (getters/setters) used to be on the exam.  We put in the book in case there were old questions that haven't yet been removed (that does happen from time to time!)

Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:. . . That's plenty of lead time!

Only if you are awake and read the notices in time

It's been announced in this forum for a long time too .

This is a programming site. I don't think people here will know the answer to this question.

Vishal Hegde wrote:I joined a new company solely for Salary purpose but unfortunately it's a night shift

Not to sound unsympathetic, but you knew this when you took the job. You decided that a night shift doing support was worth the extra money. There's a reason the job pays more.

Campbell Ritchie wrote:You may have to stay on the nights for some time, a year or two, so as to show staying power and commitment.

Other people will doubtless have completely different opinions.

Unless you were at your previous jobs a short time, I think it is ok to be at this one a short time. It doesn't look bad on the CV if rare. And you can say "I realized the night shift wasn't for me" when doing it. From how you describe the job, I'd worry more about skills atrophy than the nigh shift. When you look for your next job, what will you  have recent experience doing? Just monitoring? I imagine the daytime people do the more interesting parts such as scripting.  Do you have the option to automate some of what your job does? That will prevent boredom and save money. It does raise the possibility of automating away your job though.

Vishal Hegde wrote:only thing I hate is sitting 9 hours behind the cubicle.

This is something you do control. Can you get a standing desk? Can you stand every 30 minutes? 15 minutes?

I was in San Diego last week where there was a little under two inches of rain in two days including a thunderstorm. Lots of people didn't know what to do. Lightning was new to kids. Driving was hard. The trolley wasn't running. Roads flooded.

This is not a weather event that most places in the US would have found significant.

Can you think of a weather event that you've been in that was unusual for your area (ex: snow in Atlanta)

Pass the test? Add your name to the wall, partner.

OCMJEA Wall of Fame [order by Date]
Version	Name	Final Exam Date	Part 1 Score	Assignment Score	Story	Assignment	What's Next	Country
JEE6	Giritharan Thavalingam	May 25, 2018	76%	140/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	-	Canada
JEE6	Mahmut Eren	October 19, 2018	76%	147/160	-	Quick Computer	-	Turkey
JEE6	Nataraj Basappa	September 26, 2018	73%	152/160	https://www.natarajmb.com/2018/09/journey-to-ocmjea/	Quick Computer	-	UK
JEE6	Mustapha SENHAJI	February 03, 2018	73%	142/160	-	Retire Early	AWS Solutions Architect	Morocco
JEE6	Gautam Deb	December 15, 2017	76%	156/160	-	Retire Early	-	India
JEE6	Ernest Barroso	November 02, 2017	78%	131/160	Two months on the 3 steps	Gemstone International	Spring Professional Certification	Venezuela
JEE6	Francesco Fabi	October 09, 2017	71%	148/160	-	Team Doctor	TOGAF	Italy
JEE6	Om Narayan Pandey	June 26, 2017	80%	156/160	-	Dream Car	-	India
JEE6	Samrat Roy	May 24, 2017	83%	155/160	https://coderanch.com/t/680789/certification/OCM-JEA-story	Gemstone International	-	India
JEE6	Sanjay Garothaya	May 01, 2017	80%	151/160	-	Team Doctor	-	USA
JEE6	Amine Ouali Alami	April 02, 2017	78%	156/160	-	Utility international	-	Morocco
JEE5	Rajesh Narayanan	Mar 17, 2017	92%	143/160	-	Team Doctor	-	India
JEE6	L. Witkowski	Mar 1, 2017	71%	140/160	-	Retire Early	-	Poland
JEE6	Rajesh Kumar Srivastava	Jan 24, 2017	73%	139/160	-	Utility International	Expertise in Machine Learning & AI	India
JEE6	Raghavendra Desoju	Jan 23, 2017	83%	149/160	-	Quick Computer	AWS Solutions Architect	USA
JEE6	Carlo Cangemi	December 23, 2016	88%	144/160	-	Dream Car	-	Italy
JEE6	K. Tsang	Dec 2, 2016	71%	-(JEE5 upgrade)	-	-	-	Hong Kong
JEE6	Sergio Navarro Garza	May 28, 2016	83%	149/160	-	Utility International	TOGAF	Spain
JEE6	Caio Bessa	May 19, 2016	71%	143/160	-	Retire Early	IELTS	Brazil
JEE6	Mithun M S	May 05, 2016	78%	141/160	Story	Wireless Phone Company	TOGAF	India
JEE6	Yogaraj Khanal	March 23, 2016	71%	138/160	-	Quick Computer	OSCP	Nepal
JEE6	Angelo Verdicchio	Feb 05, 2016	83%	148/160	-	Factory Homes	Improve design & architecture skills	Italy
JEE5	Sourav Biswas	Feb 17, 2016	93%	144/160	-	Retire Early	Improve design & architecture skills	Australia/India
JEE6	Siddhesh Jog	Jan 27, 2016	76%	146/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	Improve design & architecture skills	India
JEE6	Mika Kilpeläinen	Dec 7, 2015	P	P	-	Gusher Oil	HTML+CSS	Finland
JEE6	Vijay SN	Nov 28, 2015	86%	145/160 90%	-	Wireless Phone Company	Improve Architect Skills	India
JEE6	Efthymia Armanidi	June 2, 2015	71%	149/160 93%	-	Team Doctor	ITIL	Greece
JEE6	Rodrigo Cayres	Oct 19, 2015	81%	153/160 96%	-	Big Smokes Cigar Shop	OCEJEE6JSFD (JSF)	Brasil
JEE6	Vijaya Raghava	Sept 26, 2015	81%	143/160	-	Team Doctor	PMP, Hadoop	India
JEE6	Claudia Arévalo	Jun 25, 2015	88%	153/160	Story	Factory Homes	TOGAF	Colombia
JEE6	Heliton Rodrigues Aranha Filho	Apr-30-2015	73%	NA (JEE5 Upgrade)	http://www.coderanch.com/t/650230/java-Architect-OCMJEA/certification/Certified-OCMJEA-finally	NA (JEE5 Upgrade)	TBD	Brazil
JEE5	K. Tsang	Mar 4, 2015	89%	144/160	part1 part2/3	Quick Computer	-	Hong Kong
JEE6	Mike Degteariov	Mar-31-2015	78%	151/160	-	Team Doctor	Hadoop	Canada
JEE6	Bora Seven	Mar-12-2015	71%	140/160	Story	Big Smokes Cigar Shop	TOGAF9	Turkey
JEE5	Heliton Rodrigues Aranha Filho	Oct-18-2014	71%	141/160	http://www.coderanch.com/t/650230/java-Architect-OCMJEA/certification/Certified-OCMJEA-finally	Factory Homes	TBD	Brazil
JEE6	Rahul Sharesth	Sep-19-2014	83%	141/160	-	Dreamcar	TBD	India
JEE6	Mahavir Singh	Aug-10-2014	71%	140/160	-	Utility International	Improve Architect skills	India
JEE5	Anuj Sethi	Jul-1-2014	90%	141/160	-	Team Doctor	Improve architect skills	IRE
JEE6	Raffaele Sangiovanni	May-1-2014	80%	153/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	Scrum	ITA
JEE5	Pothiraj Marichamy	Mar-1-2014	95%	P	-	Team Doctor	TBD	USA
JEE5	Uma Monday	2014-02-28	95%	145/160	-	Gemstones International	TOGAF9	USA
JEE5	Sirish K Somanchi	2013-06-11	78%	152/160	-	Team Doctor	TOGAF9	India
JEE5	Marco Bresciani	2013-01-31	64%	134/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	Ruby and RoR	Italy
JEE5	Subrahmanyam BV	2012-12-15	89%	152/160	-	Team Doctor	-	India
JEE5	Sachin Dixit	08-Dec-2012	78%	144/160	-	Team Doctor	PMP	India
JEE5	Diego Lins de Freitas	11-October-2012	85%	140/160	-	Quick Computer	IEEE - CSDP	Brazil
JEE5	Juan Gonzalez del Pino	11-October-2012	P	P	Story	Gusher Oil	Not sure	Spain
JEE5	Chandra S Billanuka	15-July-2012	P	P	-	Wireless Phone Company	TBD	USA
JEE5	Chennakrishna R Gottam	29-July-2012	P	P	-	Gusher Oil	PEGA	USA
JEE5	Srinivasulu Kopparapo	06-July-2012	P	71%	"Here"	Gusher Oil	Java Enterprise Edition Certified Master	USA
JEE5	Sudha Sundar	18-Feb-2012	P	153/160	Here	Gusher Oil	Oracle IT Implementation Specialist, PMP	USA
JEE5	Neeraj Javiya	21-Jan-2012	P	P	Here	Team Doctor	TBD	USA
JEE5	Mahesh R. Desai	12-Dec-2011	P	P	-	NA (JEE5 Upgrade)	Oracle Linux Fundamentals, PMP	California, USA
JEE5	Sada Kurapati	22-Dec-2011	95%	146/160	Part I Story	Gusher Oil	TOGAF	USA
JEE5	Mahesh R. Desai	12-Dec-2011	P	P	-	NA (JEE5 Upgrade)	Oracle Linux Fundamentals, PMP	California, USA
JEE5	Eric Manuguerra	04-Oct-2011	85	P	-	Factory Homes	TBD	France
JEE5	Mayur Bodkhe	27-Sep-2011	P	143/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	TBD	UK
JEE5	Sankha S Pathak	27-Aug-2011	P	155/160	-	Wireless Phone Company	TOGAF	INDIA
JEE5	Vignesh Murali Natarajan	21-Aug-2011	100	P	-	Big Smokes Cigar Shop	PMP?	India
JEE5	M. A. Riveros T.	21-Aug-2011	P	P	-	Dreamcar	TBD	Colombia
JEE5	Jari Timonen	29-JUN-2011	P	P	Part1	Factory Homes	-	Finland
JEE5	Roxana Crisan	17-Jun-2011	93	P	-	Dreamcar	TBD	Romania
JEE5	Tan Chin Sheng	12-Jun-2011	96	P	-	Factory Homes	TOGAF9	Singapore
JEE5	Ashutosh Sharma	29-Mar-2011	P	P	Here	Big Smokes Cigar Shop	TOGAF9	USA
JEE5	Martin Zisler	19-Jan-2011	P	P	-	Gusher Oil	JEE6 Webservices	Switzerland
JEE5	Wolfgang Unger	21-Dec-2010	P	P	-	Big Smokes	Holiday in Brazil	Germany
JEE5	Jeanne Boyarsky	17-Nov-2010	87	P	Here	Factory Homes	TBD	USA
JEE5	Rupesh Kumar	17-Nov-2010	82	P	-	Dream Car	TBD	USA
JEE5	Sylvain Duchesne	12-Nov-2010	P	P	-	Dream Car	SCEA for Java EE6 - Upgrade	Canada
JEE 5	Ravi Iyer	21-Oct-2010	P	P	Story	Factory Homes	-	India
JEE5	Kuppusamy Venkatasubramanian	19-Jul-2010	85	P	Here	Dream Car	TBD	Singapore
JEE5	Varun Chopra	03-Mar-2010	96	P	Story	Factory Homes	TBD	-
JEE5	Jose Luis Iturbide	24-Apr-2009	71	P	Story	Factory Homes	Spring & Android	Mexico
J2EE	Gabriel Belingueres	30-Dec-2008	85	91	-	Fly By Night	-	-
J2EE	Stefan Meier	29-Dec-2008	89	77	Story	Fly By Night	SCEA5 Upgrade	-
J2EE	Mahesh R. Desai	12-Dec-2008	81	89	Story	Fly By Night	SCEA for Java EE6 - Upgrade	California, USA
J2EE	Paul Michael	5-Nov-2008	91	77	Story	Fly By Night	Flex or .Net	-
J2EE	Abhinav Srivastava	6-jul-2008	89	95	here	Fly By Night	-	-
J2EE	Ashish Sarin	15-Aug-2008	70	92	here	Fly By Night	TOGAF	-
J2EE	Patrick Williams	14-Nov-2007	85	87	Story	Fly By Night	SCJD & Upgrades	-

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SCJP Wall of Fame

SCJD Wall of Fame

SCBCD Wall of Fame

Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:The certs are still listed as retiring December 31, 2018. . . .

That is less than four weeks.

Yes it is. They announced it 8 months ago. That's plenty of lead time!