New Vaadin Core Advanced course on Black Belt Factory

I just committed new Vaadin-related course to Black Black Belt factory. It is named Vaadin Core Advanced, and as its name suggests, covers advanced aspects of Vaadin (these not covered by the Vaadin Fundamentals course).

This is beta of version of the course, so we focused on the details table of contents so far. If you're Vaadin hacker and want to help us with:
a) improving the course structure
b) filling the content
...feel free to drop me a line.

More Vaadin exams on Black Belt Factory

As you may know, we are quite interested in Vaadin here at Black Belt Factory. For example the latest version of Black Belt platform has been migrated from Struts to Vaadin. We got also excellent course and exam for Vaadin fundamentals (blessed by mighty Vaadin authors themselves).

Now I started special mission on Black Belt Factory. We want to create comprehensive Vaadin track, with content quality confirmed by Vaadin creators. To do that we need to elaborate new, specialized courses (and exams) for various Vaadin aspects (Core Advanced, Themes, GWT Widgets and so forth).

I started new thread on our forum regarding new Vaadin challenges. You are welcome to join us and contribute.

We working on the new Enterprise Integration Patterns exam on Black Belt Factory

Stéphane SOREL from France proposed to create new Enterprise Integration Patterns exam on Black Belt Factory. Actually this is something I've wanted to do for the last few months.

You are welcome to join our discussion and contribute the exam objectives.

Should we deprecate JUnit 3 exams on Black Belt Factory

Do you think that we need to deprecate JUnit 3.x exams on Black Belt Factory? There's recent discussion on Black Belt Factory forum regarding this issue.

I created poll on Google Docs in order to find out what people think about that idea.

I personally think that we should remote plain old JUnit 3 stuff. There's no point in keeping out-of-date exams on Black Belt Factory.

Come on, help us and take the poll. :)

Oracle Queries exam proposal on Black Belt Factory

Krzysztof Mały proposed new Oracle queries exam on Black Belt Factory. I hope that Oracle won't sue us for that :P

If you know a bit about Oracle databases and want to help us with the exam objectives - feel free to join us :) We would appreciate all contribution.

CVS Concepts exam released on Black Belt Factory

Few days ago we released CVS Concepts exam on Black Belt Factory.

Special thanks goes to two CVS experts - Govarthanan M and Łukasz Sierant. Thank you guys :) .

Exam is kindly lead by Mateusz Mrozewski.

Have fun. :)

BTW I like to see so many Polish names on Black Belt News :) .

Hibernate Inheritance Strategies exam goes stable

I'm happy to announce that Hibernate Inheritance Strategies exam on Black Belt Factory is finally stable.

Special thanks goes to our top contributors - Ramon Anger, Meissa Sakho and Oleg Chubaryov. Ramon is also the exam leader so if you got some doubts regarding the test, feel free to contact him (or me :).

Enjoy.