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A New Start

My gods, it's been a while. Well, I lost my job at Lockheed Martin. That sucks pretty badly, but now I have a great opportunity to reinvent myself and learn some new things.

To that end, I've started learning J6EE platform. I installed Tomcat and wrote a basic web app. That was pretty easy.

Then I installed the Android Development Kit and wrote a really basic Android application (for 2.1). Again, easy, but really basic.

So I'm trying to think of a project I can do that will allow me to play with some new stuff, but yet build on what I know with XML and related stuff.

I'm open to suggestions.

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  1. DonnaMarch 22, 2010 at 7:52 AM

    So, I know I rarely know what all those letters smashed together mean, but I know that you are the most brilliant man I know (besides Toby, I guess). We're just going to have an adventure now. At least we don't have to worry about our lives being boring, right? xoxo

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