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Scheduled promotions:

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Starting Date	Cover	Book	Author(s)	Publisher	CodeRanch Forum
November 22	No promo; US holiday week
November 28	Available
December 4		Darcy DeClute's Scrum Master Certification Guide: The Definitive Resource for Passing the CSM and PSM Exams	Darcy DeClute	Self Published	Agile
December 11	Available
December 18	Available
December 25	No promo; US holiday week

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Kevin Abel and I met up in person. We both wore a Ranch tshirt and the Moose had a nice outing. It even involved bananas! (Anyone been here long enough to get the banana reference?

First, a big thanks to Heather VanCura and Bruno Souza for being here to promote the book Developer Career Masterplan: Build your path to senior level and beyond with practical insights from industry experts.

The winners are:

Campbell Ritchie
Majid Hameed
Tim Holloway
Anand Athinarayana

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This week, we're delighted to have Heather VanCura and Bruno Souza helping to answer questions about the new book Developer Career Masterplan: Build your path to senior level and beyond with practical insights from industry experts.
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The promotion starts Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 and will end on Friday, September 22nd, 2023

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Packt.


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Emamuzo John Ofagbe wrote:Apologies for this, after going through the question again, this was a wrong call.

Option C looks wrong at first glance. What did you see the second time?

Michael Goshey wrote:Chapter 10, page 564, bottom of page under the bold heading "getSum()": the explanation mentions DoubleSummaryStream, IntSummaryStream and LongSummaryStream, which presumably should be DoubleSummaryStatistics, IntSummaryStatistics and LongSummaryStatistics respectively.

I agree that should be changed next time. It was pointed out here

My response was

Thanks for the comment. We meant the type of the stream the summary statistics object came from. So it's not quite an errata. I do see how it could be clearer though so I put it on our private list of things to consider for the next version of the book.

Now that a second person said it, I lean more towards changing it!

Thanks for sharing. It makes sense that you can't use executeQuery() as there isn't tabular data returned. I'll make a note to see if we want to add it next time.

Moved to beginning java per request

First, a big thanks to Brent Laster for being here to promote the book Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub.

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Greg Horie
Sean Corfield
Roland Mueller
Arjunkumar Shastry

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The promotion starts Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 and will end on Friday, September 15th, 2023

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly.


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Ooh good observation. I've added this to the errata and credited you.

Yes. We learned after writing the book than the online engine makes it a radio button when there is only one option and therefore you can't have "choose all that apply" questions with one answer. We wrote a static analysis rule for that so the problem doesn't appear in the Java 11 or 17 versions.

Mike Simmons wrote:OK, you're right.  I thought they were calling everything using the "->" syntax a switch expression, but they are not.  Thanks!

We might have been when writing the chapter as well. I made a note to check for next time.

"legal" means following the rules to me. If you include more instance variables  in hashcode than equals, you run the risk of getting different hashcode values when equals would return true.

Anil Philip wrote:(I don't know if there's one for Azure which is also popular in job posting adverts.

Yes, Microsoft has Azure certs. Doesn't help the OP, but wanted to reply in general since you asked