Introduction

Here are some presentations I built for some fellow developers to introduce them to some technologies that were new to them. The presentations and supplementary materials are available under the Artistic License so you may feel free to use them either for self education, teaching others, or just pick out pieces as you see fit to include in other material.

All of the presentations were originally created using OpenOffice's Impress application but I've offered alternative versions below where they have been exported to Microsoft's PowerPoint format as well.

Log4J In 30 Minutes Or Less (Open Office Impress format)

Covers all the basics of using Log4J to do logging in your Java applications. A student should be able to walk away from this and start doing simple logging right away.

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Ant In 30 Minutes Or Less (Open Office Impress format)

The Ant presentation is more of an overview of what Ant does and how you work with it. After you are done with this one you won't be able to sit down and write a fresh Ant buildfile from scratch but you will be able to understand an existing one and have a pretty good idea of how to modify it to make it work with another project.

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