The Cattle Drive forum is where the drivers get together to complain, uh rather, discuss their assignments and encourage each other. Thanks to the enthusiastic initiative of Johannes de Jong, you can keep track of your progress on the drive with the Assignment Log. If you're tough enough to get through the nitpicking, you'll see your name on the Graduation Log.

And a shiny spur goes to...
I'm happier than a pig in slop to announce our latest graduates!  Christie Xu and Terence Doyle drove their way through OOP and is now moseyin' on over to Servlets. Newcomer Sam Tilley rode hard and made it through Java Fundamentals, time to lasso them objects in OOP!

Great job y'all!

Back from being out on the range...
Angela Poynton joined her fellow drivers out on the range after a long snooze in the bunkhouse. Welcome back Angela!

Saddle sore...
Daniel Olsen and Jason Adam are itchin' to get out of the JDBC saddle.  Hang in there, graduation is just around the corner!

Nitpicking is hard work too...
Let's all raise a toast of sarsaparilla to Marilyn deQueiroz and newbie picker Jason Adam for pickin' at them nits.  It's hard work keeping them all them drivers in line!

Tips for the Trail…...
Are you one of the many who got that famous nitpick:  "100 concatenations - any room for optimization here?"  Loops are a powerful tool, but can get messy real quick, especially when it comes to performing operations.  Try to think of ways you can move an operation - or its result - out of the loop.  This will help in optimizing the resources needed by your program!

Written by Jason Adam and Pauline McNamara