As some of you may know, I’ve started again to learn Java recently. I’m a bit lost with the herculean amount of references online, and hence have been solely focusing on Sun Tutorials and some forums. But as a blogger myself, I just couldn’t let down my peers. And more than a peer, I found a homonym. Yakov Fain is a professional Java developer, working at a Wall Street financial services company, and writing for the Java Developers Journal. I’ve been watching his blog for a few weeks, and it definitely deserves to integrate my blogroll for the diversity of the topics discussed. Check it out: Zidane, his dreaming of Jonathan Schwartz asking Yakov about his vision of the future evolutions of Java, his children teaching him new English words, recruitment, etc.

Yakov Fain and I not only share our last name: I recently spent 6 months in New York City (it’s a pity I hadn’t come over his blog when I was there), the city where Yakov is working (apparently, Yakov lives in New Jersey, basically like my family in the US!), and both of us blog in English – definitely not our native language. By the way Yakov, my father was born from a Polish mother and a father born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania (at the time Russia, where the name Fain comes from: Fain in old Russian became “fein” in German and “fine” in English – “raffiné” in French ). Where are you from Yakov? (I guess Israel, but who knows) See you some day perhaps…Always a pleasure to meet homonyms (apart from me, there are two other Jeremy Fain in the US – I never met them either).

To all my readers interested by Java development or not, and I insist, check out Yakov Fain’s excellent blog.

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