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  Key features of Web 2.0 , as descibed in Web Monkey Article
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First week of masters course in software engineering.

This weeks training was on refactoring - Notes to follow , but broadly using Martin Fowlers book on refactoring . Fairly industry standard stuff , but might give you pause for thought before diving in and copying/pasting left right and centre.

On a practical side , the course uses a lot of Java / J2EE , Eclipse and Tomcat, with quite a high level expected in these (e.g. the refactoring group assignment expected these to be built on a bare machine before the refactoring proper could begin - easy enough if you’ve done it before , but not really the object of the course!!)

The course itself is on UCD’s Belfield campus , and is run for 3 weeks a year (part time) with exams in June.

First Version of Red Piranha (Open Source Search and Knowledge Management) now available on sourceforge - http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/red-piranha/

Red-Piranha is sponsered by us (http://www.firstpartners.net )