12.28.06

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Posted in geekery at 2:05 pm by GaZ

Know what that means?? It’s my Wii Friend code! Hanne and her family really surprised me by getting me one for Christmas! Thanks very much to all of them!! That’s not to belittle the other gifts I received, of course…

It’s been a great Christmas, apart from the fact that Hanne and I aren’t together for the celebrations. She’s currently back in Norway to see her family, while I’m here in Wales with mine. Mum and Dad are over from Borneo, and uncle Bill also drove up to stay for a few days.

Hanne returns on the 1st, which means we’ll also have to spend New Years Eve apart! :( So I’ve decided to head on down to Bath, after receiving an invitation from Ben. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch up with some of the old compsci’s from my class.

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas, wherever you are, and have a happy new year! Next stop: 2007!

12.04.06

Gareth Western, SCJP

Posted in Uncategorized at 6:54 pm by GaZ

Today I finally got around to taking the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam, and passed with 80%! It’s not quite an amazing score, but I’m happy with it. We restrict our programming to 1.4-compatible at work, as some customers use WebSphere 5.1 with the IBM Java 2 JDK, so I haven’t had any “real world” experience with some of the new features in Java 5. Fortunately my revision paid off, and I got through the Generics (IMHO the biggest new feature of Java 5) questions without any difficulty. Gooooooooooooooooooo Gaz!
Tangent: Hmm… the IBM website makes no mention of a Java 5 implementation, however there is an “early release” version of Java 6.  I guess they just decided to skip a version?