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Can you imagine the power of Developing iPhone Applications using Java? Yes you heard me right. This is another one of Google’s tech talks that discusses how this can be achieved. I’ve probably said this a thousand times and I’ll say it again. Java is really powerful and never ceases to amaze me to just what this language can do.

Have you ever doubted your ability to get a job done? As a coder I have been there many times.  I have had countless jobs and projects where I had absolutely no idea how I would ever finish the job. Things usually seemed to work out. The most important piece of advice I learned over the past few years is that to never ever doubt your abilities.

When I first started writing code professionally I had absolutely no idea what I was really doing. I never gave up. I studied the source code of the applications and I read a lot. Whenever I didn’t understand something I researched the topic and usually learned something about it. It takes a long time to master different technologies.

After a few years writing computer code is fairly the same it’s just the technologies that may be different. As long as you understand how to lookup and research issues (even as a beginner with zero experience) you should be able to survive most jobs with minimal difficulty).

Ok, do I sound happy? I just started the 3rd week of my new job and am really happy. I dealt with far too much crap at the company I used to work for in Indiana. Now finally I have a company that makes me feel like a human being. I’m looking forward to the option of being able to do most of my work remotely at home.

I’m still adapting to the Florida culture. It’s way different than Indiana and reminds me somewhat of where I grew up back east. It’s still going take me a few more months to get used to how things work here. Traffic is usually busy or gridlocked or somewhere in between the two. The temparatures are still near 90 degrees the past month I’ve been here even in the middle of October. It’s going be a nice winter I can feel it. Nice and mild or warm.