OO Programming Newsletter #32 from Bruce Eckel
October 2001

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* Hands-On Java Hits the Road
* Discussion: Does Java Need Checked Exceptions?
* Event on the same topic
* New discussion tool in Zope, basis 
  for a new BackTalk design
* The Seminar Schedule:
-- J2EE, SF Bay area December 10-14
-- "Design Patterns Applied" Rescheduled
-- "Art & Technology of Web Design"
* TIJ Solutions in polishing mode
* Swing seminar
* Server-Side Java seminar
* Recommendations for projector
* Changing over to mailman

See the Calendar for the current schedule:
http://www.mindview.net/Calendar

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* Hands-On Java Hits the Road

Traveling is problematic these days, and training budgets have been cut, so 
the travel often makes the whole package too expensive. What to do? We've 
decided to bring the Hands-On Java seminar closer to you. We've chosen 3 
cities for the first tour: Chicago, Atlanta and Boston. 

- TIJ Chicago
	February 4-8 2002 (venue to be defined, date may change)

- TIJ Atlanta
	March 25-29 2002, Center for Manufacturing Information Technology
	http://cmit.edi.gatech.edu/Atlanta/CMIT_visitors.htm

- TIJ Boston
	April 22-26 2002 (venue to be defined, date may change)

We are currently looking for venues in Boston and Chicago. Of course we could 
use hotel space, but we have an offer for you. If you have a training room 
equipped with a whiteboard, a projector and desks in your organization, with a 
minimum capacity of 15 people, and you are willing to host the seminar at your 
location, we will give you one complimentary pass to the seminar! 

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* Discussion: Does Java Need Checked Exceptions?
This is an essay, followed by a discussion page, about the idea that the 
experiment of Checked Exceptions just may not have turned out that well. 

http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions

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* Event on the same topic

On November 28, I'll be doing a live online seminar on the issue of checked 
exceptions, with benefits going to relief for September 11: 
http://www.pughkilleen.com/thirteenthweek/september11.html

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* New discussion tool in Zope, basis 
  for a new BackTalk design

Continuing my Zope education, I've created the tool that allows you to add 
comments to a discussion page, in remarkably few lines of Python & Zope. This 
is also the basis for a new version of the "BackTalk" comment system that I've 
been struggling with since Bill Venners and I dreamed it up in Prague this 
Spring. (Rocky: "That trick never works!" Bullwinkle: "This time, for sure!"). 

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* The seminar schedule

-- "Design Patterns Applied" Rescheduled
Due to travel and budget restrictions, we've decided to reschedule to sometime 
during Feb-April. I'll put it on the calendar as soon as we decide. 
http://www.netobjectives.com/c_dpa.htm

-- "Art & Technology of Web Design"
Daniel Will-Harris and I are zeroing in on a date, probably February or March.
http://www.will-harris.com/seminar/

You can find all the seminars listed on the calendar:
http://www.mindview.net/Calendar

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* TIJ Solutions in polishing mode

The exercises in the book were not nearly as simple as I thought they would 
be, as I discovered: it took me over 1.5 months of most of my time to get them 
all solved. In print, this would be a book of over 500 pages! Over the next 
few weeks I will be polishing the package -- including the addition of 
supplemental exercise problems (not solutions... this way you'll have 
something left to solve!), and the creation of a special discussion group for 
those who purchase the solutions. I'll also be getting the delivery mechanism 
in place. 

After getting a couple of gripes about not having the solutions in the book, I 
did a little research and added the following FAQ: 
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/FAQ.html#SolutionGuide

I'll announce the solutions in this newsletter when they're ready. Sorry for 
the delay. 

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* Swing seminar

We're starting to create a more advanced seminar focusing on the Java Swing 
library. Here's a discussion page where you can tell us exactly what you want 
to see: 
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/SwingSeminar

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* Server-Side Java seminar
Ditto for a seminar focusing on server-side programming in Java:

http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/ServerSideSeminar

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* Recommendation for projector

If you have recent experiences buying or using a data projector and can make 
recommendations, I would greatly appreciate your input at this URL: 
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/ProjectorRecommendations

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* Changing over to Mailman

Now that the new server is stable (and fast -- not only the machine, but the 
T1 connection! Thanks again to Bill Ostaski at Cove Communications, 
www.cove.com), I will be moving the newsletter over to Mailman, an application 
written in Python which has proven to be very reliable and robust. So don't be 
surprised if the next newsletter looks a bit different. Thanks for your 
patience! 

___| Until Next Time... |________________________

Java programming questions:
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/JavaQuestions.html

Speaking & Seminar schedule: 
http://www.mindview.net/Calendar/

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Bruce Eckel    http://www.mindview.net