After my success at the exam wednesday I decided to go through with studying in order to become a Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform by the end of October. It’s gonna be hard, but some people told me about the high value of this Certificate and that made me decide …

This afternoon I went to Berchem to take the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam. After I tested my knowledge yesterday with the mock exam included in Kathy Sierra’s and Bert Bates’ Study Guide I really wasn’t sure if I would pass the test today. But guess what? It turned out the real exam is easier …

This week I’m following a xml course and we learned about some very variable resources which I think I should share: * Processing XML with Java, a book written by Elliotte Rusty Harold, is a complete tutorial about writing Java programs that read and write XML documents. It contains over 1000 pages of detailed information …

For people that want to build a site with css and don’t know where to start there are now two online tools to generate css. With the first one, List-o-matic. you can create a nice layout for your navigation and with Layout-o-matic you can create a multi-column CSS layout.

Manageability is an online resource with topics covering manageability of complex software systems. It contains a lot of interesting articles about Java, like for example: 101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET. Why do I like that?