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Episode 29. Scope (or how far away can you call), Inheritance, marker interfaces, and overrides!

Episode 29. Scope (or how far away can you call), Inheritance, marker interfaces, and overrides! —- We go and visit the Primordial Java Concepts. As rules set in stone we explore the concept of multiple inheritance, method and variable scope (including the final keyword), abstract methods and @override. This is good for those starting up...

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For those of you going to JavaOne San Francisco 2012

See if you can spot me! I’ll be tweeting my location @fguime and be wearing the above t-shirt Hope to see you there! Ah, and if you like the t-shirt, drop me a line, if there is enough interest we can create a store! Freddy Guime

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Episode 30. I always thought Generics were as good as brand name Erasers (Java Generics part 1)

Hi there! Finally back on a (hopefully) standard schedule. I have been moving a house with three kids, two cats, one wife, one dog, and one grandma (they are heavy!, just kidding!) and just found the box with the podcast equipment! we hit the ground running with Generics. What are the benefits (and potential pitfalls)...

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Episode 31. Know your bounds! Generic bounds that is (a story that extends super!)

Big shout-out to everyone I met at JavaOne (including some avid podcast listeners!). Thanks for listening and for a great time down at JavaOne! Don’t worry, we will be sharing all the stuff I learned on new episodes of the podcast. It is also our Birthday (We have been airing episodes for a year!)! Happy...

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Episode 32. Java 6 is sooooo Last Year. A guide on the features and how-to migrate to Java 7

Episode 32. Java 6 is sooooo Last Year. A guide on the features and how-to migrate to Java 7 —- Shout out to the Chicago Java User’s Group! Glad to be part of the Board! And Shout out to Peter Hendriks and Tim Prijn for their presentation! (https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=4153). If interested, click on the ‘media’ icon...

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Episode 33. Does code dream when it hibernates? A quick look on the big things of Hibernate

Databases have been around forever! (or at least from the 1970s) and there are many things that try to hook Object Objected Programming with Relational Databases (namely, O/R mappers). Hibernate is the most known O/R mapper and, while effective sometimes it can be confusing. In this podcast we delve on how to understand our misunderstood...

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