Top Ten Tools I use Not in Order
1) Java JDK
2) Eclipse
3) IntelliJ
4) MKSNT Unix
5) Word
6) Excel
7) Outlook
8) Browser - IE/Firefox
9) Wireshark
10) IM (Digsby)

Python seems to be a common thing nowadays -

It incredible how much information a programmer has to retain. And also what becomes just habitiual.

A programmer in order to keep must learn the new things. Especially if the basis of your work is in some that Organic in nature.

Take the web, it moves at a high pace, the software behind moves just as fast.

Java when we first started was at 1.1 now it 1.6. And I think 1.7 is coming out just as soon enough.

The changes from 1.1. to 1.6 are hard to keep up. But for me the server side of Java seems to be better to me then the client side. Where client side apps seem alot better the Applet is the one aspect of Java I hate the most.

At least for certain things for sql.

alter table seems to be a command that you shouldn't forget.

At the very least you should know that this command is what you use when you have to make changes to the table schema.

Programmers --- artists --- on the software end. The only difference is that their foundation is like quicksand it keeps changing quickly.

OSGI

The OSGi Alliance (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative - now an obsolete name) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999. The Alliance and its members have specified a Java-based service platform that can be remotely managed. The core part of the specifications is a framework that defines an application life cycle management model, a service registry, an Execution environment and Modules. Based on this framework, a large number of OSGi Layers, APIs, and Services have been defined.

I need to take a look at this more detailed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi

Hmm Java: SOA

A new book on: Service Oriented Architecture.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50395