O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @05:32PM from the sunday-school-ribbons dept.

Joel Aufgang writes "O'Reilly Media's O'Reilly School of Technology in partnership with the University of Illinois has just launched a Java Programming Certificate Series, which looks like it's intended to compete with the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certification. According to O'Reilly's press release, this is not an exam-based certification but rather a series of project based instructor-led courses that, if you pass, earns certification backed by the University of Illinois. Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans."

Submission + - First iPhone 3rd Party GUI App Compiles

Submitted by CmputrAce on Saturday July 28, 2007 @09:54PM

CmputrAce writes: Well, it's here now. The #iphone-dev team has compiled the first third-party application for the iPhone. Of course, it is the standard "Hello, world." application, but it's native to the iPhone and uses the iPhone's GUI. This opens up the iPhone for development by anyone who can forge through the process of cracking the iPhone, installing the iPhone "Toolchain", writing an application, compiling, translating, and finally installing the application to the iPhone. With the pace of development at present, expect to see commercial "jailbreak" (mod-enabling) applications soon as well. You can already get high-quality applications (Mac) to theme the iPhone and add your own ring tones (Win) for the phone.

Journal Journal: The Next Slashdot? 12

Journal by drinkypoo on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @06:14PM

Over time it is becoming increasingly clear that Slashdot is going to hell. While this has always been true, it seems that we've crossed some threshold, reached some critical mass, where everything is going wrong. Mismoderation seems to have reached an all-time high; certainly complaints about it (mine included) have increased dramatically in the last couple of months. Editors can't edit, and never could. Advertisements from known spammers are all over the site. This isn't what I ca

Submission + - Stem cells core of more cancers

Submitted by davecb on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:28PM

davecb writes: The Globe and Mail reports that cancers have at their core a small number of stem cells, without which they cannot spread or reoccur. From the article: A spate of new discoveries about the basic biology of cancer is pushing researchers toward an astonishing conclusion: For decades, efforts to cure the disease may have targeted the wrong cells. If true, the discoveries of Canadian and Italian research groups may give us a new path to selectively attack cancer.

Journal Journal: Wiiiiiiiii?!?!?!?!? 8

Journal by TechnoLust on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:14PM

Basically, my plans of meeting some friends and standing in line for the Wii were disrupted by some kind of stomach illness that I believe was caused by a steak sandwich I ordered during the OSU/Michigan game. :-(

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