Where Are The Wise Men?

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Java Java Everywhere

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It seems that everyone needs my Java expertise. The following all happened within a 12 hour period:

  • I'm now a contractor and my current contract is to get a bunch of semi-programmers up to speed on Grails so they can actually support the applications that are tossed over the wall.
  • As soon as I get home from work, my daughter doesn't let me into the house, because she's having problems with Minecraft on our Ubuntu laptop. I used a lot of my Java troubleshooting-fu to figure out what is happening. It comes done to Majong doing something that make Minecraft on Linux janky with Minecraft 1.8 and new servers with mods. Works fine on my Mac (which my daughter does not use).
  • During the day, I get a frantic text from a friend of mine. Her son is on college and not going well in his second semester college programming class and asked if I knew anything about Java and if I could help him. I said I do Java for a living. I got with him that night and found out that the instructer is not explaining things well, giving examples with bad practices, and an extremely superficial and insipid assignment.

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