Momma always said...

Forrest Gump kicks tail! I find something new in that movie every time I watch it...like that Elvis scene at the beginning where Forrest is doing the hounddog dance and Elvis later uses that in his performances when he becomes famous.

"that's all I got to say about that"

Java Cert Notes Chapter 1

I have uploaded chapter 1 of my Java study notes.

http://www.geocities.com/prodigy018/JavaStudy/Chapter1Final.doc

FYI - I am using the "Java 2 Sun Certified Programmer and Developer" book written by Sierra and Bates -- Excellent book!

Java Certification Study

I hear people say certifications are not [that] valuable. I beg to differ. There are some VERY good Java programmers where I work and after speaking to them, I found that the amount they gained preparing for the Java cert was well above what they use Java for in everyday tasks and that it definately helped them ramp up on becoming a developer. The net of it is that if you have the cert, you will be able to tackle the majority of coding tasks -- not to mention that jobs right now are abundant for people who have the Sun cert :-).

Since I am preparing for my Sun Java Certification (If my boss is reading this, im not out looking for a job), I thought I would also post my notes to help others who are preparing.

I'll update the site as notes are created. Best of luck!!!

Remove those annoying balloon tips / tooltips in Win XP

Windows XP has annoyed me for the VERY last time with it's not so helpful "balloon tips" tooltip popups. If any of you use Windows XP, you know what I mean. Actually, it's not so bad if you have a desktop with XP, but if you have a laptop - well, .

So after 20 seconds of searching online, I found the registry key needed to wipe out these balloon tips. You can edit registry using the following steps...If you need more detailed steps than these, leave a comment and I'll just email you the file you need.

1. Edit the following registry key to add the EnableBalloonTips dword

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:0

2. Logout and login.

WOO-HOO!

Yes, you can relax... I'm here

I've been wanting to start my own blog for some time now.

I was browsing the web (newsgroups mostly) about 6 months ago looking for information on a PDA emulator that Bill makes. After about a week of searching, I found the answer! What I also found was Bill's entourage using blogging... everywhere! -- it's like they were under mandate or something :-. Anyway, this is to help even the score! :-) One small step for Sunil, one giant leap for all IBMers!

P.s. I'm going to try to update the contents from this blog to the IBM internal blog as I have time. Someone needs to sit down and write an API to convert the Atom XML to something useful...RSS?