{"id":29,"date":"2009-03-05T01:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T07:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-03-05T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T14:58:58","slug":"java-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/java-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30\" title=\"tombstone\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tombstone.jpg\" alt=\"Java Bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tombstone.jpg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tombstone-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Java Bee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 A few years back, I worked as an application developer for a group that was trying to transition from a nasty old mainframe to a shiny new UNIX environment.\u00a0 This meant that all of the employees would need to learn a new language: Java.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A number of people had started to take a Java class at a local college and I had a great idea that would let them bring what they were learning into the workplace in a fun way: the Java Bee!<\/p>\n<p>Since a couple people already knew Java, they could quiz the new students on what they were learning in front of the rest of the department.\u00a0 What a great way to recognize those that took the initiative on learning new technologies, right?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Java Bee was quickly shot down, and the project and my job were cut shortly thereafter.\u00a0 It was an idea ahead of its time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 A few years back, I worked as an application developer for a group that was trying to transition from a nasty old mainframe to a shiny new UNIX environment.\u00a0 This meant that all of the employees would need to learn a new language: Java.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,27,14,25,26],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-28","tag-hts","tag-ideas","tag-java","tag-java-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}