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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

It's Not a Skills Gap: U.S. Workers Are Overqualified, Undertrained - Businessweek

It's Not a Skills Gap: U.S. Workers Are Overqualified, Undertrained - Businessweek
When private industry greed prevents it from supporting community training and job skills, the community (Government) i.e. the people must unite, standup and do for themselves. In every great recession only a few businessmen are knowledgeable enough to realize a paradigm shift is needed to save a nation from total economic collapse. The majority will remain vigilante to an inherited grandiose profit motive mentally void of a need to retrain and retool.
In the chart below, the orange line represents the number of unemployed people looking for work; the white line represents the number of job openings.
The number of unemployed people is double the number of job openings 
Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that companies have trouble finding qualified applicants. (For example, there’s a shortage of welders.) Across the broader economy, though, the data do not hold up. Annual wage increases have been stuck at around 2 percent; they’d be rising much faster if there were a shortage of qualified workers.

Something is clearly broken in the labor market. The problem may not be the skills workers ostensibly lack. It may be that employers’ expectations are out of whack. That’s the premise of a paper by Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School. For much of the twentieth century, it was up to industry to pluck smart, capable college graduates and turn them into quality workers. In recent decades, on-the-job training has declined. Companies want new hires to be able to “hit the ground running."
..."In 2011, an Accenture (ACN) survey of U.S. employees found that only 21 percent had received any employer-provided formal training in the past five years. “That means almost 80 percent had no training in five years,” Cappelli wrote." - Businessweek
Above all, businesses value experience these days
Meanwhile, career and technical education (CTE) has declined in favor of
traditional four-year colleges. The average number of CTE credits taken
per student fell by half from 2000 to 2005.
 

Knowledge is Key

Sunday, August 24, 2014

NightHacking Lab Meetups Everywhere - Meetup

NightHacking Lab Meetups Everywhere - Meetup

About NightHacking Lab Meetups Everywhere
  • 367 NightHackers
  • 102 cities

Meetup Group for Java NightHackers to hack on labs as individuals or small groups. Join us for one of our international hack sessions by creating a community meetup to hack along with the live stream on http://nighthacking.com/­

NightHacking Lab

Oracle IoT Kids Workshop | Javalobby

Oracle IoT Kids Workshop | Javalobby





▶ JavaFx on Android demo application - YouTube

▶ JavaFx on Android demo application - YouTube



An innovative solution to Mobile Application development with an Enterprise back end.

▶ OpenDolphin running on a Raspberry Pi - YouTube

▶ OpenDolphin running on a Raspberry Pi - YouTube

OpenDolphin and JavaFX Demos

OpenDolphin Demos



OpenDolphin on many devices

We have already seen that OpenDolphin can feed multiple Java-based channels
like Swing and JavaFX. We have extended this capability since version 0.9 such that
you can use the same application on many devices.

Please note


  • the same OpenDolphin application works on desktop, smartphone, tablet, and web
  • the presentation state is retained across all devices
  • the application follows you wherever you go
  • you can stop working at any time and re-connect later without losing any work.
The live demo that you can use to experience this capability yourself is available on the
canoo development server.








OpenDolphin and JavaFX

OpenDolphin

 

OpenDolphin is a slim open-source library that implements the highest degree of model-view-controller separation.
Views and controllers compile independently and communicate solely through
OpenDolphin's shared presentation models.



This strict separation allows controlling the application logic on an enterprise server
while the views display the application state on a remote client machine with all the
capabilities of a desktop application.



Canoo initiated the Dolphin project since we had recognized that many of our customers share a common quest:


Keeping the application logic on the server but presenting it with all the capabilities of the client device.



Dolphin is a remoting solution that bridges the world of Enterprise Java and Desktop Java.
Unlike most REST approaches, it doesn't confine the server to be a data source only.

Instead, with Dolphin your server-side business logic controls a shared presentation model.
The client displays the Dolphin state in all its beauty.

The figure below shows how client and server connect via Dolphin's shared presentation model
followed by some introductory slides on the topic.
In terms of Model-View-Controller (MVC) one can see in the figure above that Dolphin puts the
View responsibility on the client but leaves the controlling logic on the server.
The model (here in the sense of a presentation model, not a domain model) is shared.
This is shown in even more detail below.

Monday, August 18, 2014

2-5-1 (CHORD PROGRESSIONS) FOR PIANO

Musicology - the study of music as an academic subject, as distinct from training in performance or composition; scholarly research into music.



Mosaic Afrocology - the interwoven studies of African phenomena from an Afrocentric perspective

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Firefox OS - Mozilla | MDN

Firefox OS


Learn How to Make Websites | MDN

Learn How to Make Websites | MDN

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Oracle Academy Introduction to Computer Science | Curriculum | Self Study: Getting Started with Alice

Oracle Academy Introduction to Computer Science | Curriculum | Self Study: Getting Started with Alice

Oracle Academy | Student Center


Oracle Academy | Student Center