2008-03-30
Benedikt Sattler created new JAX-B exam.
The exam covers JAXB issues like Java-Schema or Schema-Java mapping. Now we need to fill it with questions. We would appreciate your valuable contribution.
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2008-03-21
QCon Conference this 12-14 March 2008 was a great opportunity to meet with JBB Community members and JBB Corporate users.
We thank you for your input and feedback.
Many participated to the JBB Challenge. Pictures are available
here.
The top 6 JBB Challengers received a Java book donated by O'Reilly - another 18 high scoring challengers won a JBB polo shirt.
2008-03-05
We migrate to a new forum facility: JavaBlackBelt.com/forum.
One month ago, Javalobby changed (in a rush, apparently ;-) their forum to a new system and progressively disabled the ancient forum area where we were located.
We had plans to integrate a forum functionality into the platform (as being able to discuss a belt congratulation, a news, an auction,...), but we had to hurry up and Aymeric did a fast work integrating (minimal integration) JForum that you can use with your JavaBlackBelt login.
Don't hesitate to discuss this news on our new forum ;-)
2008-02-21
QCon is happy to offer a free pass to the conference in the auction room.
As you know, we'll be the official contest of QCon London, March 12-14. One 2.646€ worth conference pass is offered to the JavaBlackBelt community. Place your bids in the auction room.
2008-02-13
JavaBlackBelt will be at QCon London conference March 12-14, 2008.
We'll run the JavaBlackBelt challenge as we do at many conferences, followed by a competition (with winners of the challenge).
If you have a yellow belt or upper on JavaBlackBelt, please come to meet us and be sure to ask for a free T-Shirt.
QCon is an enterprise software development conference to be held in London. It is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler, Erich Gamma, Kent Beck, eBay Architect Randy Shoup, Neal Gafter, Gregor Hophe, Brian Goetz, and many more.
JavaBlackBelt users get 15% discount on tickets! Just mention "javablackbelt" as promotion code when register on the QCon website.
2008-02-02
Abhijit Akhawe created a brand new JavaScript basic exam.
This new exam is the first one concerning the JavaScript topic. Now we need to fill it with your brilliant questions. We would appreciate your valuable contributions.
2008-01-25
10 new auctions wait for your bids in the auction room. They will appear from now to end of March.
We propose various kind of gifts this time, from the toy to the dvds. Don't hesitate to start a forum thread with your wish list for the next gifts :-)
Good luck !
2008-01-11
Congratulation Amzad Basha, for reaching 10,000 contribution points, and 1,000 questions! You are the first achieving this and it's an energy start for 2008.
This year, the contribution points counting will change, with the introduction of additional contribution measures. More on this on the forum soon.
2008-01-03
The JavaBlackBelt team wishes to thank the numerous visits and support at our JavaPolis events in December. Some pictures are available on our picasa web album, more pictures will follow shortly.
Our congratulations go to the winners of the JBB Championship. Mert Caliskan, Bob MacWhirter, and Marcin Kuthan were our Champions respectively on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday last week. They won our top price: a PlayStation3, donated jointly with our partners CapGemini and USG Innotiv.
Impressive performance also by the runner-ups: Jan Kovar, Laurent Pireyn, and Xavier Fournet, who could choose their preferred Java book, graciously donated by Pearson Education.
We also wish to thank Sony for sponsoring this event.
Meanwhile, on behalf of your entire JavaBlackbelt team, our very best wishes for a sparkling 2008.
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2008-03-26
Hell, C# exams ( basic and intermed) on JavaBlackBelt!?
Bah, we are IT developers before being Java technologists, aren't we ? Most of us have programmed in more than one language. Personally, I started with "Basic", on my vintage Atari 800 XL and went through many others since. Couldn't we consider SQL or Ant, which are on JavaBlackBelt, as "languages" too ? We introduced a Ruby exam last year.
Let's welcome these two C# exams and help them grow. If .Net exams multiply and invade JavaBlackBelt, we promise to capture them and transfer them to a place where they can happily prosper.
2008-02-28
Capgemini held its first Pizza Meeting to launch JavaBlackBelt Corporate Edition. The Core Team of 12 developers took exams in a plenum session on February 21st. The session was introduced by JBB co-founder Nicolas Brasseur.
Some core members were JBB community members who had already achieved belts before the session, others took their first JBB exam that evening.
I like the JBB web site: It is fun, it allows developers to improve knowledge, and the possibility to gain a result quickly is a motivation to go further” says the first Capgemini brown belt, who received a bottle of champain for his achievement.
JBB allows Capgemini to improve the hard skills of our java developers and architects. We decided to implement JBB because it offers plenty of possibilities for e-learning and skills assessment." Steven Eggenstein, Java Competence Manager, Capgemini
2008-02-17
Our Algo - basic exam, lead by John Rizzo, is stable now.
You have more than half an hour to answer 24 questions related to the fundamentals of Algorithms.
And seriously, shouldn't every blue belt have it in its succeed exams list?
2008-02-06
Toni Menzel created new OSGI basic exam.
The latter exam covers basic OSGI-related issues. No advanced topics - an ideal point to start your adventure with this OSGI. Now we need to fill it with questions. We would appreciate your valuable contribution.
2008-01-28
Exam Leader Rotation
We welcome moderators to (re)select the exams they want to lead.
The idea is to allow people to switch exams and minimize the number of inactive moderators. If you are busy for a while, you can ask for exams later in the cycle or in the next cycle. The idea is to make sure we have active moderators and solicit other moderators for exams that need more.
We believe in giving equal opportunity to all the moderators for selection of the exams according to their time availability and likings.
If you think you have guts, knowledge and can can lead the exam please do not hesitate to request for becoming exam leader.
Please visit Exam Leader Rotation thread for more information.
2008-01-23
We've created a JavaBlackBelt group at LinkedIn.com for blue, brown and soon black belts.
From LinkedIn group page, press the join button to be invited joining this group. In the message, put a link to your JavaBlackBelt profile (on JavaBlackBelt.com), so we can check your belt color.
2008-01-07
Benedikt Sattler, a brown belt from Austria created JDO exam.
New exam includes questions concerning the JDO persistance framework issues. Now we need your contribution in order to shift the exam into the beta state.
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