I’m done taking the Real Word Technology course in the Sun Student Courses yesterday.  The course intended to lead its students to the basics of Java FX, NetBeans GUI, JRuby and Java ME programming.  I earned this certificate after completing its prerequisites.

It really is nice to have a free online learning course like Sun Student Courses. I enhanced my desktop application, JRuby and Java ME skills, learned and actually tried Java FX upon taking the course. Programming Java FX is really cool; I’m looking forward for its tools for easier development.

Great News! Sun Microsystems is offering students free online training course. This is a valuable learning opportunity for everyone. The topics include Introduction to Sun SPOTs, NetBeans GUI Builder, JRuby, JavaFX, JavaME, Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org. Certificates are awarded upon completion of the requirements.

Visit http://www.sunstudentcourses.com for more details…

A funny video forwarded by a colleague…

Original Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZfdCkYPig

Earn $$$ from programming…
Use MySQL database and GlassFish application server to develop a web application and write a review for…

• A chance to win a grand prize of $500 in Visa debit card, and
• Five chances to win a prize of $250 in Visa debit card

Simply:

1. Download MySQL 5.1 Community Edition and GlassFish v2 Update Release 2 (UR2).
2. Develop a cool web application using the combination.
3. Create a project of your application at java.net.
4. Write a review of these products and post it in your blog.
5. Submit your java.net project’s URL and your review’s URL.
6. Do it before October 22, 2008.

Schedule
Contest starts: September 2, 2008
Submission deadline:October 22, 2008.
Judging period:October 23 - November 20, 2008.
Winners announced: November 21, 2008.

Visit http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/reviews/studentzone/contest.jsp for more info.

At last, I already had the chance to try the famous Chrome for Windows. What can I say? I really can’t say anything about its usefulness on web application and programming part (because of its OS version) but I am really impressed. Download and installation and the importation of bookmarks, browsing history and other data from my other browsers into Chrome were swift. At first I thought it was like Opera but it’s just the welcome page. The opening of a new tab and downloading of a webpage is faster than MSIE and Firefox. The feature that I love the most is the “sand box” feature. I tried to force an error for the browser to crash but it didn’t, chrome just printed a result of the handled exception on the top of the web page.

It really excites me on the release of the Linux version of Chrome. I’d like to try it on our current web application project…but there’s a little bit of problem, it is another browser to worry about for page rendering…

On Google Chrome…

Angas…