"My life has been touched many times by the flow of the fates bringing me into contact with the right person to show me the right thing at the right time."

"Problem: Several tools are too many."

"Interacting with the Environment"

"Multidimensional Structures"

""All the world's a stage," wrote William Shakespeare. But not all the players upon that great and turbulent stage speak the great Bard's native tongue. To be usable on a global scale, your software needs to communicate in many different languages."

"Sending Email: For Real"

"Pickling Your Bean into a JAR"

"We live in a world of multiple activities."

"I tell my students that when Java was very young, it was possible for one person to study hard and know almost everything about Java. When JDK 1.1 came out, this was no longer true. Today, anybody who tells you they " know all about Java" should cause your "bogosity" detector to go off at full volume. "