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With Spring in the air and warmer, longer days, we're bouncing right along...
JavaBlackBelt wins Brussels Innovation Award (BIA) 2007
The JavaBlackBelt platform was chosen as the top innovation in the "Management, marketing and strategy" (for an SMC) category.
Each winner received a trophy awarded during the Entreprendre Trade Fair, by Mr Benoît Cerexhe, a Minister of the Government of the Brussels Capital Region and by professor Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (USA).
Winners were selected based on certain criteria:
- true innovative nature and proven originality,
- financial performance evaluated in terms of profits generated and/or savings gained, put into perspective with the development and implementation costs of the innovation,
- interest and pertinence, namely the amount of added value generated or potential added value both for the company and for Society in general,
- transferability to other sectors, their inspirational nature and their ability to train other companies in similar approaches.
More about BIA here...
Winter may be done, but still it's cool to "Hibernate"...
All that is needed is YOU -- to take the beta exams and rate the questions. (It's free!)
The exams nearly have enough questions for release, however there's been little activity on them. (And yeah, we know they're kind of "points-pricey.")
To show our appreciation for your help, these exams will be points-free for one month from their release date(s).
Please help us to release these exams:
Hibernate 3 Core - Basic
Hibernate 3 - Core
Hibernate 3 - Entity Associations and Relationships
Hibernate 3 - Inheritance Strategies
Hibernate 3 - Persistent Objects Retrieval
Hibernate 3 - Caching
Hibernate 3 - Transaction & Concurrency
Hibernate 3 - Advanced Lifecycle
JavaBlackBelt in Jolly "ol' London"
In March we went to the UK to offer the JavaBlackBelt Challenge at QCon and Sun Tech Days. We're proud to say that we had over 200 challengers. We kindly thank the organizers for inviting us to be there and for making us feel extra welcome: Mai Skou NIELSEN (EOS / JAOO), Floyd MARINESCU (InfoQ) and Michael LONNON of Sun Microsystems UK. A special shout out to Antje KING of Pearson UK for sponsoring our book prizes at both conferences.
Top challengers:
- Jakob Avlund, Lund & Bendsen (DK), was the only challenger to get 5/5
- Roland Nelson of the European Patent Office got 4/5 more than any other challenger. He's responsible for THIS portal among others...
- Signe Kongsgaard Kyster, Lund & Bendsen (DK). One of the few female challengers, came in 1st place once and 2nd place twice.
We happily welcome Roland, as well as the rest who we met in London, to the community!
New Spring Exam
Brown belt Henryk Konsek has created a Spring DAO JDBC exam.
We need your questions! Here's your chance to rake in some contribution points.
Check out the exam objectives...
New Admins
We welcome two more users to the admin team. And shout-out a huge "thanks" for giving their time to some community efforts:
Amzad Basha will handle the congraulations messages to users who reach the blue and brown belt levels and for racking up more than 1000 contribution points.
Ahmed Khan will track fan club voting activity and communicate with users suspected of collecting "phantom" votes.
Sharing community spirit
We really appreciate that some of you mention the community, like exams you passed and belts you earned on your blogs and websites.
(We know who you are from our site stats ;-)) Did you know that you could add a "Congratulations" box too? With it you can show your appreciation to fellow users or those in your country. It's super EZ: just a few lines of Javascript. All of the details are HERE...
A huge "Thanks!" for taking the time to read this.
We appreciate your interest and continued support that keeps the JavaBlackBelt community going waaaayyyy strong!
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