Red Soup

Recently had a real life experience that I could map to Software Design.

Occasionally, I or one of my colleagues gets beverages for everyone. The scheduling is: the one who wants to have a beverage gets some for the rest as well and queries their preference beforehand.

In this case, the job landed on one of my colleagues.

The conversation went something like:
Guy1: What would you like?
Me: I'd like some Red Soup.
Guy1: What kind of Red Soup?
Me: Red Soup! You're the Factory, figure it out.
Me: Convention Over Configuration!
Guy2: Should he draw you an UML diagram? As long as it implements or extends RedSoup.
Guy1: With Cream?
Me: That's an implementation detail. Not interested! Red Soup! Go!

It left me in stitches, I'm geeky like that.

(added an overview of the different arrows in UML. I always get confused.)

Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE - Course

I had the opportunity to attend the Oracle course on "Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE"^[1] from Monday 09/09/2013 to Friday 13/09/2013. (after forking over a big sack of money)

The Course does have a number of Lab exercises, mostly based on UML or open questions (that created several discussions, which I enjoyed immensely). UML diagrams were drawn using UMLet^[3].

I took the course as I wish to prepare for the 'Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect' certification.

This is the first step in the Certification Process ^[2].

I did receive some very interesting Course material along with it. However, it's been licensed to me specifically. (I could let you read it, but then I would have to kill you. Oracle licensing rules say so.)

References

[1] Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/ou_product_category.getAllProductsPage

[2] Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=458&get_params=p_track_id:OCMJEE6EA

[3] UMLet

http://www.umlet.com/