Today I went to the grocery store to buy some food. I didn't have any quarters so had to take a cart from another store that I found in the parking lot. Inside I was filling up the cart and not paying much attention to what I was doing. At one point I switched carts with someone else and kept shopping until I realized there were other things in the cart that weren't mine!! I wonder what the person must have thought turning around to find their cart gone! It's not like they had already paid for the food. I could barely contain myself and quickly hurried back to where I remember seeing it last. I found my cart, moved a bunch of stuff from one to the other, then left the wrong cart in place.
In other news... nothing is new. Months have gone by and I barely post anything anymore. Why? Because I consume my nights and entire weekends reading J2EE books. I spent 10-15 hours/week studying. I got this gut feeling about this and my future and that's why I've been able to sustain this amount of reading for this long. Seriously though, it's not like you can read 1 book and get started and learn other things later. You really need to have the big picture, and study patterns in multi-tier design. Just about 3 months into it and there are still gaps here and there that stop me from actually starting my project. However about 300 more pages of this patterns book and I'll be finished :) Then I think I'll be armed with enough knowledge to start. I know there will still be lots of things I'll need to study before I can consider myself a serious J2EE developer. It's hard to explain, but I can really see and understand why this stuff needs to be complex. Once you understand it, it is not complex. There is just so much to learn it's hard to know where to start, what to learn, what not to learn etc...
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
