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Hai-yah!
Wanna know the low-down at JavaBlackBelt? Read on . . .
The Corporate Edition
JavaBlackBelt now has an intranet edition of the platform for managers and recruiters. We want to help them to help developers increase their knowledge and get recognition for it.
The exams are similar to the community but it offers other features like setting up learning paths/groups for employees whose identities remain confidential from the public.
We invite you to check out www.JavaBlackBelt.biz
(And tell us what you think!)
JAVAPOLIS 2006
Some of the JavaBlackBeltians will double as Javapolians for three days: 12 – 14 December.
We welcome you to find us at the stand setup by Finalist -- our Netherlands partner.
When we arrive we'll give away some T-shirts (while supplies last.)
Then we'll start the CONTEST: a random set of 5 out of the 2000 questions in the Java SE Basic exam (so you'll need luck as well as your brain.)
Be the first to finish the exam and win a book or a T-shirt. During the days we are there we'll run contests twice daily (AM & PM.)
How to find it? Look for the karate girl!
Book prizes will be provided kindly by Pearson Education.
NEW EXAMS
Newly released SQL & RDB - Basic exam
Two brown belts: Sergey Trasko of Latvia and Jeanne Boyarsky of the USA, built this exam to test basic SQL and database concepts presumed to be known for passing the JDBC exam. They included in the objectives page two very useful learning resources. Have a look ...
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New Java SE RegEx (beta) exam
Green Belt, Graeme Dunlop, a Java Dev in Melbourne, Australia, built this exam to test your knowledge of writing and interpreting regular expressions without expecting you to be a human Matcher.
Graeme also included some very good reference resources of Java's RegEx implementation. Check it out...
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Java SE Networking exam
Brown belt, Eric Wendelin of the USA, released this exam, which focusses on a few classes. There are some prerequisites that you have particular non-Java knowledge. Eric also points you to where/how on the objectives page to prepare to pass this exam -- and gain 3 knowledge points. See the objectives...
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Out of the cave: The ONLY Hibernate exams available
JavaBlackBelt co-founder Nicolas Brasseur, and brown belt, Nicolas Duran of Spain, banded together to put out two highly useful and unique exams: Hibernate 3 - Entity Associations and Relationships and Hibernate 3 - Core.
NEW FEATURES
Who's choosing whose
Wouldn't it be nice to have an E-Z way to see who voted for you and vice versa? We thought so and have built it into the application.
For now - until the next deployment - it's possible only to see your own votes. (Naturally, the mods and admins can see everyone's.) But very (very) soon every user can see who's voting for whose questions.
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Be a "belt bragger"
You've asked for it - and so you got it. Now you can add your belt to your website/blog. And if you have some tech savvy - which we know you do - you can add it dynamically. As you "belt-up" the image is refreshed automatically. All of the details are on the "Refer Us" page.
You can also group-brag by adding a fast and easy JavaScript to display a "Congrats" box of users and their respective belts (by country or the entire community.) Go HERE for instructions. (Hey, if our Java Groupie TR!SH, who's not a programmer, could add a "Congrats" box on her blog -- we know its Supah-EZ to do!)
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D is for delete
This new feature gives mods and admins buttons for deleting votes and deleting users. Though it's not usually necessary it does occur that certain (fan club-based) votes need to be removed as well as low-to-no activity users.
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Concurrent IP-addresses
Now mods and admins can see which beltees use the same IP address. Overall it's no big deal to know this, but it offers a way to see IF any users have created phantom accounts (to rack up votes.)
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Dot ORG addresses
We need to keep the DOT COM email addresses separate from the community.
So... the email aliases for mods and admins will now be moderator_X {at} javablackbelt DOT ORG -- which is even more "impressive."
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Don't forget...
You have a list/description of what's been done on the application on THIS PAGE.
For your comments and requests about the platform, we openly welcome them on our forum.
As always, a huge "arigato" for your continued support, efforts and enthusiasm! Without you we couldn't keep the JavaBlackBelt community going - strong!
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