My accomplishments  2005.June
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  <li>Taught myself how to do Java SAX (event-driven) parsing of XML, and used the events to translate XML commands to SQL commands for updating a database.</li>
  <li>Downloaded BeanShell and became familiar with its use for developing Java code with unit testing of each line of code.</li>
  <li>Taught myself enough elisp (GNU Emacs Lisp) to write utilities to communicate with FIFO, and wrote BeanShell Java code to communicate from other end, whereby (1) Java code can be typed in Emacs and passed to BeanShell for execution, (2) Lisp code can be typed in Emacs with results emitted to standard-output of controlling X-window.</li>
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