Friday Oct 20, 2006

From historic Route 66, my best wishes for a very warm and Happy Diwali to you and your family members. May this Diwali be sparkling, bright, colorful, and full of sweets.

 Regards,
Mehul

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Tuesday Sep 05, 2006

We often receive emails regarding someone in the other corner of world is in need for a desperate help.  Sometimes these emails are hoax, and other times its genuine calls for help which we often look at it with angles due to past experiences.[Read More]
Second list of useful resources such as study notes, mock exams/practice test, and a free chapter to prepare for SCJA (Sun Certified Associate for the Java Platform, Standard Edition) certification exam.[Read More]

Monday Sep 04, 2006

Here is a first list of useful resources like books, discussion groups, websites, and specification links to prepare for Sun Certified Associate for the Java Platform , Standard Edition, Exam Version 1.0 (CX-310-019) .  For information regarding certification objectives, recommended trainings, and supporting courses from Sun, Click here. [Read More]

Sunday Sep 03, 2006

This is a third list of useful resource to prepare for SCWCD certification. This list has useful links to web pages and documents on http://java.sun.com, websites with useful resources,  and technical articles.  [Read More]

Saturday Sep 02, 2006

In Japan, when you either call an end of a day in office, or leave a party it is a good manner to excuse yourself and display your thoughtfulness for those who can't leave the place yet.[Read More]

Friday Sep 01, 2006

This list includes links to mock exams or practice tests, discussion groups, study notes, tutorials, free chapters in web component development, and technical tips useful for Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD).  Next posting will be list of articles, documentations, and web sites with useful resources to prepare for the SCWCD certification exam.
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2006

Some discussion groups and web sites uses an abbreviated word SCWCD for "Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition". [Read More]
In Japan, it is important to greet people you do business with, by acknowledging business dependency. [Read More]

Friday Aug 25, 2006

I just heard from my colleague about ongoing Sun Certification promotion for most Java technology or Solaris OS certification exams.

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Thursday Aug 17, 2006

As promised earlier, here is a list of useful online resources to prepare for "Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Version 1.0". Some discussion groups and websites uses an abbreviated word SCMAD for "Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Version 1.0". As my collection of useful resources to prepare for SCMAD gets new entries, I will publish it here periodically. If you know or find anything that you think is useful to prepare for SCMAD certification, then please share the information with me and I will try to list it on my weblog. I am all ears for an email based discussion group for SCMAD! Good luck.
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Wednesday Aug 16, 2006

XML documents may contain elements or attributes defined and used by various standards, partners, or vendors (i.e. vocabularies). This poses collision and ambiguity when multiple vocabularies uses same element or attribute name. XML processing application needs to recognize which vocabulary each conflicting elements or attributes belongs to. However, changing conflicting element or attribute names is not a convenient and practical solution. Namespaces is a solution to this problem by providing a unique qualified name to the constructs defined in various XML vocabularies.

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Tuesday Aug 15, 2006

I am aspired to become "Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Version 1.0" in near future.

For information regarding certification objectives, recommended trainings, and supporting courses from Sun, Click here.

Useful books:

  • Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, 2nd Ed, by Jonathan Knudsen
  • MIDP 2.0 Style Guide, by Cynthia Bloch and Annette Wagner
  • Enterprise J2ME : developing mobile Java applications, by Michael Juntao Yuan
  • Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform, 2nd ed, by Roger Riggs, Antero Taivalsaari, and Mark VandenBrink
  • Beginning J2ME: From Novice to Expert, 3rd Edition, by Sing Li and Jonathan Knudsen

Next posting will be about useful web resources such as articles, notes, mock exams, etc to prepare for this certification. So stay tune!!