March 12, 2010
Roger Brinkley: JavaOne 2010 Mobility Track Session and BOF Themes.
Once again I'll be acting as the Mobility track for JavaOne 2010. The call for papers closes Sunday at 11:59 PDT. With such a limit time left the tracks marketing team has put together the following themes for this year.
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March 12, 2010
Joe Darcy: Annotation Processor SourceVersion.
In annotation processing there are three distinct roles,
the author of the annotation types, the author of the annotation processor, and the client of the annotations. The third role includes the responsibility to configure the compiler correctl...
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Why Learn New Languages N Years into Your Career?
On the Artima Developer site, Andy Dent recently posted today's lead Java Today item, Why Learn New Languages? Being Outlived by C++. Andy is 46 years old, considers himself to have about 20-25 years of full-time work remaining in his career, plans to remain in software engineering, and says "I'm seriously contemplating giving up learning new languages."
Would this be a good plan in the case of C++? In the case of Java?
I'm a bit older than Andy, and though right now I'm doing more work in the journalistic realm than in direct software engineering, I do still keep my hand in software engineering on a part-time basis. And as recently as six months ago, my work was almost entirely software engineering.
At Andy's age, I was working close to full-time on Java development. I had learned Java in the preceding several years, applying it whenever I had the freedom to do so in my daily work. I certainly wasn't anything near being a Java guru, but I was able to get a lot done at the team/project lead level. In my part time, I was editing Java books (which were big sellers at the time). Obviously, today I think it was a very good decision for me to devote lots of time at that point to bring Java into the list of languages for which I could claim a fairly high level of proficiency.
Andy's conclusion implies that his mind is made up (he probably won't focus on learning new languages in the futur...
Date: September, 16 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/09/16/why-learn-new-languages-n-years-your-career
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