CPTTM software developer newsletter issue #15

CPTTM software developer newsletter issue #15, Kent Tong, Editor in Chief

Dear Software Developers,

This CPTTM Software Developer newsletter is to bring useful news to you, software developers in Macau, for references without obligations, so that you can do your jobs easier and better! Hope you like it. if you'd like to unsubscribe or recommend your friends to subscribe, just email me at kent@cpttm.org.mo. Old issues are available here.

Data-aware controls for Java

If you've used Delphi or VB, you may wonder why there is no DB-aware controls freely available for Java. Now, there is one called OpenSwing. It works in 2-tier and 3-tier applications.

Learn JSF, AJAX and Wicket

JSF (JavaServer Faces) is the next generation web framework standard specified by SUN and other industrial heavyweights. If you're still using plain servlet and JSP, you should really check it out. CPTTM is launching a new course on JSF. In addition it will also teach AJAX (the underlying technology behind GMail) and a strong web framework called Wicket emerged from the Java community.

Humor

Top ten ways to kill your star programmers and Asshole Driven Programming.

Upcoming courses for software developers

Course code	Title	Start date	Duration (hours)	Fee (MOP)	Has reimbursement
CM139-07-2007-C	Java Programming Fundamentals	2007/07/02	54	1800	Y
CM168.2-07-2007-C	PHP and MySQL	2007/07/23	79.5	2080	N
CM188-09-2007-C	Developing web services in Java	2007/09/01	15	480	N
CM269-09-2007-C	JSF, Wicket and AJAX	2007/09/06	42	1280	N
CM291-06-2007-C	Agile software team development	2007/07/11	9	350	Y

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Any questions, ideas or experiences to share? Contact me at 28781313 or kent@cpttm.org.mo.

Until next time,

Kent Tong