Henry Wong

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
February 19		Kotlin for Android App Development	Peter Sommerhoff	Addison-Wesley Professional	Kotlin
February 26		Head First Kotlin	Dawn & David Griffiths	O'Reilly	Kotlin
March 5	Available
March 12		Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Feature	Cay Horstmann	Prentice Hall	Java in General
March 19		Python Continuous Integration and Delivery	Moritz Lenz	Apressl	Python
March 26		Head First Go	Jay McGavren	O'Reilly	Go
April 2	Available
April 9	Available
April 16	Available
April 23	Available
April 30	Available

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CodeRanch Book Promotions - This Year's Winners

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A big Congratulations to all our winners!

See our BookPromotions2018Winners

Date	Cover	Book	Author(s)	Publisher	Winners	Status
January 8		Electron in Action	Steve Kinney	Manning	Salvin francis , Paul Anilprem , Tony Esposito , charles ross	Sent in winners (1/20/19)
January 15		Hands-On Software Engineering with Python	Brian Allbee	Packt	Paul Nisset, Carl Byrd, Scott Mac Donald, Campbell Ritchie	Waiting for winners info
January 22		Get Programming with Java (MEAP only)	Peggy Fisher	Manning	tangara goh, Manos Marketos, Fred Kleinschmidt, Daniel Andersson	Sent in winners (1/28/19)
January 29		Java in a Nutshell	Ben Evans & David Flanagan	O'Reilly	Will Myers , Vanessa Williamson, Dave Tolls , Cezar Apulchro	Waiting for winner info
February 12		Java XML & JSON	Jeff Friesen	Apress	paul nisset, Carl Byrd, Jorge Ruiz-Aquino, ludoviko azuaje	Waiting for winners info

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

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

First, a big thanks to Jeff Friesen for being here to promote the book Java XML & JSON.

The winners are:

   paul nisset
   Carl Byrd
   Jorge Ruiz-Aquino
   ludoviko azuaje

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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Also, please include the following as the subject of your Email.

Book Promo Winner - Java XML & JSON - Tuesday, February 12th, 2019


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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.

Jim Venolia wrote:Re-reading my post a thought hit me.  Could Javascript be as popular as it is because when, it encounters an error, it just silently returns the wrong result?  No error, no problem.  Finding wrong results in a "working" program is a lot harder than fixing an error message.

Javascript is a weakly typed language -- in contrast to Java which is a strongly typed language.

Strongly typed languages seems to follow the 80/20 rule of development. I mean that it could take 80% of the work to get to prototype, and another 20% to get to production. Weakly typed languages seems to be the reverse. It could only take 20% of the work to get to prototype, and another 80% to get to production.

Startups tend to like weakly typed languages more -- as prototype means funding vs shutting down the company.

Henry

sam liya wrote:i need to know what happens queue getting millions of messages withing few seconds. Does mq capable of handling these kind of situation ?

ActiveMQ, as with many other  messaging environments, implements producer side flow control. It means that if your producer sends millions of message per second, then it should work. If it wouldn't work, then your producer will be prevented from sending that fast.

Henry

Yeah, definitely not getting that. I guess I need to look into it some more...

Henry

Tim Holloway wrote:I don't have one running in front of me right now, but the dashboard webapp has always supplied me with information about what's causing my problems.

Interesting. There is a dashboard...

Running "kubectl proxy" starts and gives access to the dashboard. However, going to the dashboard is just a JSON list of stuff. Is there something that I missed?

Henry

Marko Luksa wrote:You can try running kubectl describe pods   (or kubectl describe pod umstore). You'll see a list of events at the bottom, which should tell you why the container isn't starting.

Thanks. Visibility is a great thing....

Looks like the error is ... "hostPath type check failed: C:\umstuff is not a directory". The directory is definitely there. Additionally, since I thought it may be a Linux / Windows difference, I also tried "C:/umstuff" and "C:\\umstuff". They all failed. Could this be a permissions thingy?

Thanks,
Henry

First, not sure if this is the best place for this, so may move this topic around later...

To start, I got Docker and Kubernetes working fine on my Windows 10 laptop. I am able to start and attach onto the image fine. Next step, I changed the YAML file so that it will mount a directory on my laptop (using the host path option). This doesn't work -- and leaves the image stuck on startup...

C:\> kubectl get pods
NAME                       READY     STATUS                  RESTARTS   AGE
umstore                    0/1         ContainerCreating   0                1h

So, I guess the questions are... Specifically related to my issues, what should I look at? And in general, related to all issues, how do I get better visibility on what is going on? Of course, I can't fix something, if I don't know why the image isn't starting.

Thanks for any hints,
Henry

Campbell Ritchie wrote:
Can we pass my copy on to some other deserving soul?

Since Campbell has graciously forwarded his winnings to the next candidate, we have a new winner... Jorge Ruiz-Aquino.

Jorge, please follow the instructions in the original post (and PM) in order to claim your prize.

Thanks,
Henry

First, a big thanks to Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco & Alan Mycroft for being here to promote the book Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming.

The winners are:

   Mikalai Zaikin
   Campbell Ritchie
   Lucian Revnic
   satya Priya Sundar
   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)
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Also, please include the following as the subject of your Email.

Book Promo Winner - Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming - Tuesday, December 4th, 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.

Harry Kar wrote:
What's that(...brand new Celebrity Edge)?

It's a Cruise Ship from Celebrity Cruise Lines, that just got released...

Henry

From some reason, with a title like "Edge is out" and in the "Meaningless Drivel" forum, my first thought was that this would be a topic about the brand new Celebrity Edge...

Kinda disappointed now...

Henry

Ganesh Patekar wrote:

If I am not wrong, I should be able to award post with cows,

Privilege of granting cows starts from Rancher title.

Agreed. Girbot promotions do not grant extra privileges at the moment. Regardless, have a couple of cows for your inconvenience.

Henry