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        <title>What would you have answered...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Question Statement: 	Given that a Button can generate an ActionEvent which listener would you expect to have to implement, in a class which would handle this event?<br><br>Your Answer(s): 	<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ActionListener<br><br>Possible...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:10:33 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>James Carman</jf:author>
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        <title>Volunteering and suggestions for improvement</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hello Roman, thank you for your proposal. <br>Please contact me at - john {at} javablackbelt dot com - and we will talk more about that!]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:34:42 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Rizzo</jf:author>
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        <title>Volunteering and suggestions for improvement</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Defintely after applying mentioned above options the framework need to be JUnit(ed), JMeter(ed), go thru f&quot;ire and air and metal pipes&quot; (Russian proverb that imply thorough testing)</blockquote><br>Correct me if I wrong but IMO the...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:58:11 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Timur Evdokimov</jf:author>
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        <title>One point of vue</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hi Farzad, <br><br>I guess this is one point of vue, that you're certainly not the only one to share, but there can be others. It depends on what you consider the most important. <br><br>As you can read in some other posts here, we try to cover both...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:55:44 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Olivier Delausnay</jf:author>
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        <title>JavaBlackBelt.com community skill assessment site launched</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Though I greatly appreciate the whole idea of JBB initiative, it seems like you guys have to do something right now about the quality of the application.<br>When the session times out (yeah I just went to the WC in between questions), I got Wiki page...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:45:46 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Timur Evdokimov</jf:author>
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        <title>Framework Blackbelt and Java blackeye</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you wana assess some one if he/she is a java buff you have to consider Sun standard certifications.<br>However including Frameworks won't show any competency in Java.<br>I have interviewed many good J2EE developers with around 2-3 years experience of...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:21:35 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 27, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Farzad zad</jf:author>
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        <title>Volunteering and suggestions for improvement</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm so stunned that no one offered his/her help.  I'd love to volunteer if I may!  Addition to that it would be nice to see the following improvements:<br><br>1. To see that site in different languages<br>2. Rich UI enabled (i.e. utilizing Laszlo) and...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:28:22 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Roman Kagan</jf:author>
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        <title>Compliments</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John,<br><br>Besides giving hopefully useful comments, I would also like to compliment you on your site. Some people mentioned this before: the idea is really neat. The fact that you're getting so much response is a good indicator.<br><br>You obviously...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:52:11 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tom van den Berge</jf:author>
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        <title>wait question</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of the questions is &quot;What is the effect of issuing a wait() method on an object ?&quot;<br>&nbsp;<br>The correct answer was &quot;The object issuing the call to wait() will halt until another object sends a notify() or notifyAll()...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:41:14 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tom van den Berge</jf:author>
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        <title>I am bitten by a bug</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>One question. You said you would have preferred using PHP. Unlike one other poster's comment about choice of architecture, I agree with your choice (Struts/Spring/Hibernate layered architecture, though for the presentation layer I would...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:03:26 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Rizzo</jf:author>
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        <title>Character encoding issue</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>My guess is that either you're using not-so regular character for e.g. single quotes, or your server's encoding is not correct. </blockquote>Probably, we'll check that tomorrow, thanks.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:46:31 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Rizzo</jf:author>
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        <title>Questions on deprecated methods</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>One questions contains this code snippet<blockquote>public class ThreadTest extends Thread {&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;public void run() {&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;System.out.println(&quot;In...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:41:21 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Rizzo</jf:author>
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        <title>Character encoding issue</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of the questions reads<blockquote>Which of these is the correct format to create the literal char value a? <br><br>?a? <br>&quot;a&quot; <br>new Character(a) <br>\000a </blockquote>Initially, I was stunned since I realised that with my java...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:37:39 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tom van den Berge</jf:author>
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        <title>What is a good question ?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>Which of the following is a legal way to construct a RandomAccessFile?RandomAccessFile(&quot;data&quot;, &quot;r&quot;); RandomAccessFile(&quot;r&quot;, &quot;data&quot;); RandomAccessFile(&quot;data&quot;, &quot;read&quot;);...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:35:58 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Rizzo</jf:author>
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        <title>Questions on deprecated methods</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One questions contains this code snippet<blockquote>public class ThreadTest extends Thread {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;public void run() {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println(&quot;In...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:25:49 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 26, 2005</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tom van den Berge</jf:author>
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