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In case you're wondering what we've been up to lately ... read on ...
QCon Competition
This online challenge is to gear up those of you who want to go to QCon in London, March 12-16, 2007.
When & What
The competition is FRIDAY, 9 March, 16h00 GMT
Registration opens soon. Sign up here...
It's 20 questions on Java SE Basic (the same ones for every participant.) You'll need about ±10 minutes.
Be the first to finish with 20 points and win a free pass to QCon.
QCon is a new enterprise software development conference to be held in London, March 12-16. It will feature 2 days of tutorials and three full conferences days with over 70 sessions presented by 40 speakers including Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmers), Spring creator Rod Johnson, LINQ creator Erik Meijer, and more.
JavaBlackBelt at QCon
The QCon team (JAOO & InfoQ) invited us to come to London and offer the JavaBlackBelt Challenge.
All JavaBlackBelt users get a discount on tickets! Register on the QCon website and mention "javablackbelt."
If you go to QCon, please find our booth and become a Java "challenger." And don't forget to tell us that you're part of the community!
JavaBlackBelt Challenge at Sun Tech Days
We are pleased to announce Sun has invited us to bring our live competition to their Tech Days in London, March 14 & 15.
While we're there we also look forward to meeting up with Graeme Rocher, CTO of Skills Matter, who will give a 1-day workshop on Groovy+Grails.
If you are going to Sun Tech Days - London, we'll be set up on the same level as the cafe. Be sure to come by and take the Java Challenge. And of course we'd like to meet you!
NEW exams...
Java ME
Jim McLachlan, a blue belt from the UK and Soren Hilmer, a brown belt from Denmark, have released our first Java ME exam, which gets you 3 knowledge points. A sincere shout out to these guys for leading this exam.
Java SE Concurrency High-Level
This exam covers the new features from the java.util.concurrent package in Java 5. If you've ever wondered what a CountDownLatch is, this is the exam to check out.
A huge thanks to Jimmy Persson, a brown belt from Sweden and Chris Cooper, a brown belt from the UK, for leading the Java SE Concurrency High-Level exam, which gets you 3 knowledge points.
PMD's created endorses our exam
 Tom Copeland kindly reviewed the objectives of the PMD exam. (And, he wrote about our community and the exam on his blog!)
The PMD exam, still in Beta, will move to the exam zone much (much) faster with your contributions. We encourage everyone to try out the exam.
A committer of PMD, Tom is the lead developer of PMD core. He started programming on a TRS-80 Model III, but demand for that skill has waned. Tom now works mostly in Java and Ruby. He's the sysadmin for rubyforge.org and a contributor to various open source projects. He's the author of "PMD Applied" and has a book on "JavaCC" in the pipeline.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
We appreciate your interest and continued support that keeps the JavaBlackBelt community going way strong!
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