Apologies, this is more of a statement than a question. I recently was googling for something and got directed to this site, it has been a while. The familiar logo and format brought back some memories. My
java journey started in 2004 and this forum was really all I had. I spent many a night combing these pages and refreshing my posts hoping someone had replied. I got my first app live that year and I would have never done it without help from Bear Bibeault (and others of course - but mostly Bear). At present day I'm still writing Java. I feel this site, and the moderators like Bear gave me the start I needed. Not sure I ever properly said thank you :-)