Java

Check who they are training with. Yakov Fain’s notes from an offshoring training presentation are scary, and not in a good way. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

… is dropping the feature. I have an iPAQ rx3115 with a built-in WiFi. I had it for a while and it is a nice unit, if one forgives Windows Mobile 2003 (this is possible on a good day). I also have a wireless router, so can download books and generally browse internet from anywhere in the flat without turning the main computer on. One of the other benefits of the built-in WiFi was synchronization over IP, which for me was specifically over the WiFi.

A great news all around. I hope Sun will also host a public cross-referencing source code navigator for the code, rather than just a subversion directory. Something like Sorcerer might be a good start. We know the idea is good, because Linux had one for ages. Oh, and a new line in a resume to strive for: Java source code contributor. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

O’Reilly labs have created a quick, but addictive code quiz that tests programmer’s knowledge based on him being able to look at code example and figure out which book it might have come from. I run through it in one breath and did not do too badly (280 points). I mostly had troubles with VB/ASP (no surprise), but also with some examples that were ambiguous. O’Reilly is going to do some serious data mining from the game results, but I wish they would also provide the dataset to the public, obfuscated or otherwise.

I needed to convert multiple MSWord documents into the OpenOffice.org format and then later to convert those documents further into HTML. How to do it with a single document is obvious; it took some searching to figure out how to do it for multiple documents. The magic menu turned out to be File/Wizards (Document Converter and Web Page correspondingly). In a retrospect, it is not unobvious. The only reason it took time is because I very rarely use wizard interfaces of any software.