Java Podcast

I often read programming news online to get updated information about programming. But it's not always a good way. Often I get eye strain at the end of the day.

Things has changed thanks to Podcast. I can just close my eyes and get my ears to work. Now m listening to http://javaposse.com.

However Podcast is bandwidth eater! I guess I'd get an over use Internet bill again this month.

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Sun Java System Identity Manager(With Passion) free online course

The 1st session of free "Sun Java System Identity Manager
(with Passion!)" free online course will start on September
17thd, 2007. The course contents are created based in the
latest IDM version (7.1), providing the basis for
the administration and development activities. This
course is being taught by Gabriel Magarino.

Each topic has a hands-on lab which contains "ready to open
and build" NetBeans projects. For more information, please
go to the course websites below.

Course topics: http://www.javapassion.com/idm/#Topics
Course website: http://www.javapassion.com/idm
Course FAQ: http://www.javapassion.com/idm/coursefaq.html

This course runs very much like a regular college course in
which the students are expected to do weekly homework after
studying the presentation material and doing the hands-on
lab but it is free and can be taken online. There is also
class email alias where students can ask/answer questions.

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Sang Shin, sang.shin@sun.com
http://www.javapassion.com/SangSchedule.html#Bio
http://www.javapassion.com/SangSchedule.html
(Life is worth living... with Passion!)
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Sun Tech Days Developer Conference: Boston
Sep.12th 2007: Sun Tech Day
Sep.11th,2007: NetBeans Day, OpenSolaris Day
http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/
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www.mpmag.com.kh: What font?

I installed Limons, ABC, Siemreap, Ekreach and other Khmer fonts, but the text on www.mpmag.com.kh doesn't look right.

Do you know what font does the site use?

Netbeans 6M10 & Vista:Workaround

I finally managed to make Netbeans 6 shake hands with Vista.
Here is how I do:

I Right clicked on the setup file and chose Properties.
On the Compatibility tab I ticked the options as shown in the figure on the left.

Netbeans 6M10 & Vista:Disappointment

As my Acer 5630 crashes on XP, I try my luck on Vista.
While Netbeans 6 Milestone 10 runs smoothly on XP, it refuses to play nice on Vista.
When I try to make new project, there's nothing for me to select on the project category list!

I use Java SE 1.6 Beta 2-b86. I guess it's the problem.
I'm going to give Java 1.6 Update 2 a shot.

MS Access Unicode & Java JDBC

It's been a nightmare migrating data from MS Access full of unicode data to java database Derby.
Since the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver doesn't support UTF-16, you'll end up with ???????? when it should be កខគឃង.

Fortunately, there are alternative drivers. I've tried HXTT Access which support unicode.
The trial version limits 1000 transactions; enough for my 3225 records with 4 times execution.

After importing the data to Derby.
I'm ready to go to next step. :)

I've got the certificate!

It's my first online course and I'm so excited to get the certificate!

Java Worst Practices

http://softarc.blogspot.com/2007/07/java-worst-practices.html

by Frank

Free "Web Services and SOA Programming" online course

The 3rd session of the "Web Services and SOA Programming" online course
starts from August 24th. The topics of the course can be seen from the
following link:

http://www.javapassion.com/webservices/index.html#Topics

This new session will have heavy emphasis on the following 4 technology
areas.

* New Java APIs for Web Services (JAX-WS, JAXB, REST)
* WSIT (Project Tango)
* SOA Technologies (BPEL, JBI, Open ESB)
* GlassFish (Java EE 5, JBI runtime, Service Engines)

For the Hands-on labs, the "out of the box" support of above
technologies by NetBeans 6.0
(both in terms of designer tool and runtime) will be heavily leveraged.

* XML Schema editor
* WSDL editor
* BPEL designer
* CASA

If you know anybody who might be interested in taking this free course,
please let them know. In order to register for this course, all you
have to do
is sending a blank email to the following course subscription alias.

webservicesprogramming-subscribe@googlegroups.com