A possible Concurrency Producer and Consumer pattern
Often I discuss about concurrency problems and how to design applications that involved Producer and Consumer actors.
Thanks to my RSS feed I found an interesting article to discuss three different approach to read – process- update massive data.
The problem is:
- Load data based on Database based on groups
- Process the data
- Update the records loaded in step 1 with modifications
OCAJP & OCPJP – Oracle Java 7 Certification
Oracle released a new certification exame for Java 7.
At the moment there are just 2 certification:
- Oracle Certified Associate, JAVA SE 7 Programmer
- Oracle Certified Professional, JAVA SE 7 Programmer
As usual, Associate certification is a pre-requisit of Professional certification.
Job Trends for programming languages
I am always very interesting to new programming languages and how I have to improve my skills to be up to date with market requires and to address customers needs.
I found two interesting posts on regulargeek.com with programming languages trends:
- Tradional Programming languanges trends.
- “New” programming languanges trends.. or better to say unusual languages for enterprise sectors.
What Do’s and Don’ts during a conference call
Conference call is a fast method, and “cheaper”, to have a quickly meeting among people not near to their… but sometimes to do a call conference, and to understand all words, it’s very complex.
Here, some very easy tips:
TO DO
- Use mute “function” on your phone where you are not speaking.
- Stay away from other people / colleagues.
- Don’t speak too close to your microphone.
- Don’t use “hold” function on your phone… so don’t answer to another call that you can receive in the meantime.
Oracle Virtual Machine pre-built with Database, Weblogic and developers tools
Woow.. last week I discovered a useful link posted by oracle.com to obtain pre-built virtual machine, based on VirtualBox, for developing purpose.
Here you find a little description and the link to download it.
Oracle Database development virtual machine [Download]
- Oracle Linux 5
- Oracle Database 11g Release 2
- Oracle XML DB
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Oracle JDeveloper
Job Interview, Questions to hire a Java and J2EE Developers
As first post on this blog I chosen a not very “geek” article.
Often I am finding and thinking some questions to find smart Java and J2EE developers.
Thanks to Internet (specially Java code geeks) and to my colleagues (Lorenzo & Daniele) I decided to collect here a set of good questions.
Very good thing if you want add others questions or doubts as comments… thanks!
First of all I think it’s better to ask a self-evaluation about skills / main frameworks then with some quickly questions you can confirm it.
