System.out.println("Hello World");

Hello, my name is John and I am one of the other trainees in the incubator. This is my first time posting in a blog as well as reading one. So if my post doesn't sound very exciting or catchy, then maybe I could post some java code for the uber geeks to get excited over. I have been living in Oklahoma City for all 22 years of my life. I graduated from Oklahoma City University just a few months ago. I was one of the fortune people to get hired right out of college. But before starting work at The Company, the ten accepted applicants must enter a program in Dallas for additional training. Which brings me to the present...

for ( int i = 0 ; i < infinity-1 ; i++)
{
System.out.println("must hold your attention a little longer...");
}

For the three weeks that I have been here, it has been very fun, educational, and tiring. I have made new friends, who have been very helpful. They helped me with the coding as well as other things outside of training. The training itself was very..."juicy" (what an adjective to use, lol). So much content is covered each day, that not everything could be retained completely. Because the training starts with the basics and progressing up, I find myself having difficulty dropping old programming habits from college (I was too cool to do analysis+design back then, why start now). As for new concepts that I have never worked with before (jUnit, servlets, jsp, etc), I started struggling. Thankfully, the instructors are there to help.

Well, its time for me to wrap this up and hit the books again. Hopefully this was a good initial post for me in this blog. More details next time.

java.lang.RuntimeExcetpion:
Fatal Error:
Unable to recover from...

Gang of 10 Best Post Award

Well, Matt came through and has offered a trinket to be used as the reward for the best post on our Gang of 10 Blog.

Here it is:



If you are interested all you have to do is post a blog or two, about whatever, but if you want you can post about our training.

Later.

JSPs and HP-6

Well, Another week is going strong after a grueling monday back at Valtech. We're doing (as previosly announced) JWEB which means we are covering Servlets, JSPs, STRUTS, and related technologies. Today was pretty nice, we wrote a few JSPs to handle simple currency conversion. It was simple enough logistically, but getting used to the J2EE web programming may take a little extra study.

I'm looking forward to getting into STRUTS. I'm ready to seperate all Java from HTML. I hate mixing the different kinds of code in one file, I'm ready to step up to the next level.

I'm almost finished with HP-6 (Harry Potter book 6), not a bad read, but pretty plotless. It seems to be a filler to the rest of the series than a story on it's own, but it is pretty good. Having just been convinced last year by my wife to read the HP series I am new to the series, but as far as good fiction goes the books don't dissapoint.

Things I like about Boot Camp:
The training is hands on and in-depth.
The Valtech folks have been great (Don and Matt are really helping us along).

Thing I dislike about Boot Camp:
Being away from my wife.

Until next time.
Les Martin