excellent .NET SOLID presentation

Sorry I was a little late for Chris Deweese's excellent presentation tonight at StlNET.

random notes from Java quiz night at StL Java User Group

Some of my notes after having participated in StL Java User Group Java Quiz
java.io
Interface Closeable

I learned that class file 'magic number' is CAFE BABE

java.sql.DriverManager !

execute, executeQuery, executeUpdate and executeBatch on Statement.

ListIterator

name three methods of java.util.Arrays

java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger

java.util.concurrent
Interface ScheduledExecutorService

Java 7's JSR 292

javax.persistence
Interface EntityManager

What's New in Spring 3.0

Saw Jack Frosch's presentation tonight (at Gateway JUG) on What's New in Spring 3.0. Good stuff.

Grails tech talk

I attended Dave Klein's Grails talk tonight at GatewayGroovyUsers. It was pretty good. I learned a little bit about GSP and Grails dynamic instance methods.

They mentioned these are two very good books:
The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition
Grails: A Quick-Start Guide