Last week I mentioned that About.com's computing channel are holding a Reader's Choice Awards. There's now a full list of what you can nominate for an award posted on Jennifer Kyrnin's Web Design Site.
Just some of categories included are:
but there's a lot more..
Nominations are being accepted until January 24th. Voting will be throughout February, with the final award winners announced on March 1st.
I just came across Sean Mullan's blog, who has posted about the recently published version 3.0 of the Secure Coding Guidelines for the Java Programming Language.
As Sean says, these guidelines are useful for any Java programmer. They aim to make developers aware of the potential vulnerabilities that can exist and how to avoid them. They're definitely worth a look.
If you're interested in learning more about Java EE 6, you might want to check out the free course that the Java Passion guys are running next week. Starting on January 12th 2010 and running for 9 days, the Java EE 6 one-week Online Codecamp aims to get its participants coding as much as possible.
The course follows a format where students read tutorials and presentations before working on homework assignments. There is no webcasting of a tutor in action but if you get stuck (or you just want to chat to other students) there is a class email address for questions and discussions.
It's also worth checking out the online videos from the recent Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference.
As we shuffle into another decade it's nice to see Robocode still going strong. The latest version 1.7.1.6 is a bug fix release with one new feature tagged on. You can now see how much memory your warring robot is snaffling as its wreaking havoc.
If your new year's resolution is to learn Java then try and build some robots!
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