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I am looking to buy some books to catch up with my friends who got better at programming than me. I know how to handle the basic stuff like threads, but never made any complex programs by myself.
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Bookmarked.  
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Hey, you're good at this!
Can you find me a copy of The Observer's Book of Earthquakes?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, well threading can get pretty complex if you don't know what you're doing....
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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Pshht! 'Basic stuff' is used by those Java guys for everything that's forbidden by their religion. Ask them to do 'basic stuff', like managing memory themselves, and you risk starting a holy war. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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How do you know you want to do it in Java? Java Swing in particular is a horrible mess and if you're starting a UI application from scratch and have no other reason to use Java I strongly recommend you do it in C# (though I'm not going to start the WinForms/WPF holy war just here).
For databases you want to research JDBC which is the Java connector to ODBC, and possibly an entity mapping framework like Hibernate.
I'm afraid I don't have any book recommendations for you as (i) I'm not really a Java guy and (ii) I just use Google and the Internet to find things these days.
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For new members it's hard to get a display name that's your actual name. Almost impossible. However, we have tons of members who really don't care if their name is the same as someone else's name.
I was thinking that it could be interesting to open up Display Names so that you can choose whatever name you want, even if it's been taken by someone else, with a small cavet: If you haven't contributed a message or article, question or answer, your display name is plain text and it will be displayed in gray.
Each time you contribute, or each time you change your name, your name is checked against the list and if you're account is the only account with that name that has made a contribution then your name is yours and is unlocked to accept HTML, and will (by default) be displayed in a dark font.
Thoughts?
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Chris Maunder wrote: it will be displayed in gray.
Cool, someone could be Gandalf the grey. 
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and if they write an article, they could be Gandalf the White.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'd be inclined to restrict all display names to plain text. Are there any good examples of HTML display names?
Letting users choose and use display names which are already in use could easily cause confusion. Imagine how many spam posts we'll get from "Chris Maunder"! Even without the radioactive Bob icon on the post, we might still fall for it.
You could try adding a counter or member ID after the name, but after a couple of pages of arguments between "Chris Maunder 3276412" and "Chris Maunder 3267412", would anyone be able to keep track?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Imagine how many spam posts we'll get from "Chris Maunder"!
We'll just ban that guy... nobody likes him anyway... 
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Richard Deeming wrote: Imagine how many spam posts we'll get from "Chris Maunder"!
That's the point though: to make anything posted by the not-real-me to be clearly from not me.
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And letting people set their display name to "Chris Maunder" (ignoring @jeron1[^]'s "Chris<space><space>Maunder" trick) will make it easier to spot that they aren't you? 
Eminem didn't write:
I'm Chris Maunder, yes, I'm the real Maunder!
All you other Chris Maunders can just take a wander.
So would the real Chris Maunder please stand up?
Please stand up. Please stand up.
I've already got my coat.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: (ignoring @jeron1[^]'s "Chris<space><space>Maunder" trick)
Oh, there is a far better trick to become a Maunder
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Does it involve zero-width spaces, or do you have to marry into the family?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I always thought the Swiss were sneakier than they appear to be. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Damnit, that was hilarious.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Are there any good examples of HTML display names?
yes
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Who? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: I'd be inclined to restrict all display names to plain text. Are there any good examples of HTML display names?
That gets my five.
[edit] Or it would, if an error wasn't preventing it [/edit]
Richard Deeming wrote: Letting users choose and use display names which are already in use could easily cause confusion. Imagine how many spam posts we'll get from "Chris Maunder"! Even without the radioactive Bob icon on the post, we might still fall for it.
Then simply display duplicate names in a different colour, or in italics. If non-dupe names are plain text, then the dupes'll stand out as dupes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Richard Deeming wrote: You could try adding a counter or member ID after the name [...]
I think this would be the much better way to solve the problem of letting users choose the name they want.
May be a little reference to the Battle.net of Blizzard; they let users choose the name they want but add automatically a hash <#> followed by a random (at least I guess so) 4 digit number. So all users, even with the same name, have unique Displaynames.
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I think it makes more sense to 'retire' accounts that haven't been active at all for (say) 3 years. That way you free up display names of people who really aren't here, without getting into a position of allowing clashes of active members, or silly games (for example imagine Griff decided he wanted to troll me, he could set his name to mine and he would get priority as he's made more contributions lately).
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