OO Programming Newsletter #55 from Bruce Eckel
Spring 2005
Calendar: http://www.mindview.net/Calendar
Seminars: http://www.mindview.net/Seminars
MindView, Inc.
5343 Valle Vista
La Mesa, CA 91941

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* Thinking in Patterns Seminar
* Fewer newsletters, more blogs
* Thinking in Java 4th edition
* Designing Objects & Systems Seminar
* Training, Consulting and Project reviews

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* Thinking in Patterns Seminar

The Thinking in Patterns Seminar is happening in Crested Butte, Colorado, in 
just two weeks! I will be incorporating the new J2SE5 features into the patterns 
material, so you'll not only get Patterns, but the new Java language features.

Go here to read more and to sign up:
http://mindview.net/Seminars/ThinkingInPatterns/

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* Fewer newsletters, more blogs

You'll notice the frequency of this newsletter has steadily declined to about 
once a quarter, which seems to be a reasonably comfortable rate so I plan to 
continue something like that (When I've gotten newsletters too often, I start 
tuning them out).

Since the last newsletter, I started and finished a weblog on blogger.com. 
Although I generally liked blogger.com as a service (it's free, for one thing), 
they haven't put enough thought into the feedback system, so it falls prey to 
trolls and blog spam. The posted articles will still remain on the blogger site,
http://onthethought.blogspot.com/

I have now moved the weblog to Artima.com:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=beckel

I am still occasionally posting periodic (longer, more in-depth) articles on my 
site, but I will announce these on the Artima blog, so if you subscribe to that 
feed (or just visit the blog regularly) you won't miss anything. I'll also 
announce things like seminars and travel plans on the blog, in case I'm coming 
to your city and you have a user group that you'd like me to speak to, or you 
need consulting, etc.

The blog will continue to focus on programming and computing-related issues; my 
assumption is that this is what you are interested in so I will try not to wax 
poetic about the cat, the snow, etc.

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* Thinking in Java 4th edition

Here is a weblog entry that describes the state of Thinking in Java, 4th 
edition:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=112552

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* Designing Objects & Systems Seminar

Bill Venners and I will be giving the Designing Objects & Systems seminar August 
8-12 in Crested Butte, Colorado:
http://mindview.net/Seminars/ObjectsAndSystems/

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* Training, Consulting and Project reviews

The public seminars posted on the website can be delivered to your site, to save 
travel and lodging expenses. If you don't have enough people to justify a 
seminar on your own, it may be possible to team up with one or more local 
companies.

Consulting can be tailored to your needs. My particular interest is in providing 
object-oriented design assistance, where I work with your team to discover or 
refine your requirements and to develop a domain model for your system.

Project reviews generally take from 2-5 days and involve an intensive 
walkthrough including all or part of your team, examining your architecture, 
design, or code, depending on where your project is. During this process, it's 
likely that we'll discover numerous places where the design and implementation 
can be improved. The review process also offers chances for impromptu learning 
sessions, whenever we discover programming concepts that aren't quite clear to 
everyone.

Because of the book, my summer is mostly full, but fall spots are available.

For more information, you can email me directly.


___| Until Next Time... |________________________

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Weblog:
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Bruce Eckel    http://www.mindview.net