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By tvik
I have been writing a blog about Java programming and software technology since 2005. Originally, main purpose of these postings was to ingrain my own thoughts and experiences for myself, but recently I realized that 5 to 10 readers visit these pages per day. Some of these hits come from static links and the more from Google search result pages. Unfortunately, that blog is in Hungarian which is my mother language, so, as I guess, some people finally don't get what they are looking for.

So, I start another one in English to be able to share thoughts with more people, and not least, to improve my English composition skills. :)

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