For 2023 - we are now fully retired from IT training. We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.
Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!
I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here)) |
A Golf Club Decision - Perl to Java
There are times that Java is the right language for an application and Perl is the wrong one - to the extent that investment in a rewrite is correct. But they are pretty rare.
I was very disappointed to learn this week of a major company that is switching - not for technical reasons, but because of what one of my delegates described as a "golf club decision". Which was defined to me as a decision taken on commercial rather than technical grounds so that the big boss of company "A" - our new Java user - can play rounds of golf with the big boss of company "B" who are behind Java.
We'll teach you either!
Perl Programming
Java Bootcamp (written 2007-11-01, updated 2007-11-02)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles J601 - Java Introduction [25] Release numbers - (2004-08-23) [111] Training notes available under Open Distribution license - (2004-11-07) [124] PHP v Java - (2004-11-20) [317] Programming languages - a comparison - (2005-05-20) [792] Is Java the right language to learn? - (2006-07-04) [871] Java oversold? - (2006-09-19) [1049] Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6. - (2007-01-21) [1158] Private Java Course - A customer's pictures - (2007-04-22) [1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach - (2007-12-09) [1497] Training Season Starts again! - (2008-01-07) [1557] Trying out our Java examples on our web site - (2008-02-27) [1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP - (2008-08-22) [1908] Java CLASSPATH explained - (2008-11-26) [2115] Finding your java program - the CLASSPATH variable - (2009-04-02) [2423] What is a JVM, a JRE, a JDK - components of the core Java Environment - (2009-09-26) [2536] All the Cs ... and Java too - (2009-12-13) [4332] First Java Application - calculating the weight of a tablecloth - (2014-11-29)
Some other Articles
Wiltshire - speaker / after dinner talker offerCastle Lodge Hotel, Ely, CambridgeshireThe Learning Perl crew, October 2007National Speaker - now to get the talk readyA Golf Club Decision - Perl to JavaWhat software version do we teach?Good, steady, simple example - Perl file handlingBetter technology makes for longer commutes?What we teach - expained for the non-technicalThe little gestures that can really count
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