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Sat, 09/06/2003 - 5:27am

'I knew it!' said Truckle the Barbarian. 'Poison!'
'No, no. You don't eat it. You rub it on your body,' said Mr Saveloy. 'Watch. And you get what we in civilization call clean.'

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Java

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Fri, 09/05/2003 - 6:45am

All right -- I won't keep you waiting any longer... I made it. It would have been a big disgrace if I didn't, after all these years programming, but I'm happy with the result. There were 61 questions and my score was 90%. For the programmers, what is the result of this code when run?

class Test {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    int i = 1, j = 0;
    switch (i) {
      case 4: j += 6;
      case 2: j += 3;
      default: j += 2;
      case 0: j += 4;
    }
    System.out.println("j = " + j);
  }
}

It's not a very prestigious certification, but I'm happy I did it. It forced me to study many details of the language I had never studied before. I found that quite useful. Now it's up to the next one, which will be much more difficult.

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Java

To the test

Fri, 09/05/2003 - 2:07am

I woke up a bit earlier to study some more. I'm fairly certain that I'll make it, but of course a good mark is always nice. The examination center is in Haarlem, near the station. I'll be there at 9:30.

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Java

Last revision

Thu, 09/04/2003 - 3:33pm

Tomorrow morning I'll take a Java certification test and I'm revising some theory now. There are many older tests online to exercise; a site that helped me a lot is Java Certificate.com.

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dailylife

Back in Haarlem

Thu, 09/04/2003 - 4:48am

It was very pleasant yesterday evening, and the cake was delicious.

I left Leeuwarden really early this morning. I took the bus from 6:57, and had a good connection with the train. Got really scared when voice-over said "This is the train to Steenwijk, Heereveen..." -- I thought I stepped into the wrong one. Of course: these places are on the way from Leeuwarden to Amersfoort, silly me. In the train I worked on my current Chess project. Too bad my laptop's battery got empty.

In Amersfoort the connecting train was 15 minutes late, but when it arrived the trip was really short: no stops between Amersfoort and Amsterdam at all. The intercity brought me to Haarlem; I arrived here at 10:30 o'clock.

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dailylife

Ettie & Gerben

Wed, 09/03/2003 - 2:16pm

Ettie in the livingroom.I'm in Leeuwarden now -- arrived at the Schieringerweg. Nice to see the place now it's completely ready.

Ettie said that Gerben made cake. I guess I'll try it :)

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dailylife

To Leeuwarden

Wed, 09/03/2003 - 10:07am

On with my journey through the northern provinces... I'll go to Leeuwarden to visit Ettie & Gerben.

The presentation went well -- shared some interesting ideas. To learn the pro's and contra's of a technology it is very helpful to talk with others and compare with other systems and implementations. After me their was a second presentation of an ex-employee of Evermind, who told us about his current job, coaching of people. Interesting.

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Java

To Evermind

Wed, 09/03/2003 - 7:06am

Wow, quite a journey. I took the train at 8:40 o'clock, and arrived here at 12:15. The train had a bit of a delay. I like it a lot -- it wasn't very busy in the train and it was perfect for studying. I took a big Java book, and prepared for Friday's test.

At 14:00 o'clock I'll give a presentation of the project I've been working on in Haarlem, and the technology we've used there.

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dailylife

To Groningen

Tue, 09/02/2003 - 5:00pm

I'm packing my bag. Tomorrow I'll go to Evermind in Groningen and afterwards to Leeuwarden. Evermind is a firm of the Chess group. Some collegues travel from Haarlem to Groningen and vice versa a few times per week, but for me it feels quite far. In the evening I'll visit Ettie.

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vu

Ready!

Mon, 09/01/2003 - 6:04am

My supervisors agreed on the mark for my thesis (an 8), and submitted it to the graduation committee: I'm officially done now!

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