{"id":252,"date":"2014-06-10T01:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-06-10T01:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:56:55","slug":"new-topics-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2014\/06\/10\/new-topics-and-books\/","title":{"rendered":"New topics and books…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing various catch up and refresher reading lately. I picked up the latest edition of Effective Java<\/a>, Effective C#<\/a> and More Effective C#<\/a> to update my garbage collected environments programming. I’ve got to put together a few toy projects to get a bit more refresher in soon. I’ve written a little swing UI code some time ago but I want to do a bit more and get a better look at javafx to see what Oracle is putting forth there.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been digging in a little deeper into QT as one opportunity that I’ve been presented would involve some QT programming.<\/p>\n

I try to keep myself broad-based (with areas of intense focus) and I like to do these sorts of things periodically in any case. A job search makes for a good opportunity for a bunch of short but aggressive excuses to investigate new and interesting technologies in any case.<\/p>\n

Android is also hanging out there somewhere, but at the moment I’m getting wound up in the details of the base language features and run-time libraries. I’ll almost certainly get around to some Android work once I’ve hit the high points on this current round of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing various catch up and refresher reading lately. I picked up the latest edition of Effective Java, Effective C# and More Effective C# to update my garbage collected environments programming. I’ve got to put together a few toy projects to get a bit more refresher in soon. I’ve written a little swing UI … Continue reading New topics and books…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-44","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}