1. Certification

    I surface again, back from the land of studying and cramming. I decided to study for the SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) exam, since that's what I spend my time doing at $dayjob (I might as well do it as best as I can!) Yesterday I passed the exam, yay …

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  2. Contributing to an open-source project: Sugar, a newcomer's perspective.

    It's proven difficult to write up a summary of my experience as someone-who's-not-a-hardcore-open-source-contributor-yet-but-certainly-plans-on-becoming-one. There's an easy dialogue-killing answer to any anecdote I relate: "suck it up." I'm still trying to find a way to express all this though, because I'm sure there's something to learn from any newcomer's attempt to …

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