ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20090226.1335.m05

In dealing with the
* real-world, we must learn to handle our collections.
* cyber-world, we must learn how best to handle our CollectionsOfObjects.
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It has been a life-long pursuit of mine: collections

Not to much unlike that of others, I perceive.  I have an image of a comedy routine on TV some years ago, when the comedian was making comedy of this idea. Instead of using the word "collections", he used the word "stuff". While it was a comic routine, it was also an illustration of human management of collections of "valued", or "desirable" objects, and how to have the space required for their keeping. 
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CollectionsOfObjects 
how to create, manage, store, index, and retrieve them 

It is:
* the life work of many if not most programmers.  
* the subject of many books, whatever their title may be.
* a continuing problem as newly observed, invented and manufactured objects appear.

See: CollectionsAsGrouping
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ExternalLinks
* http://search.sun.com/main/index.jsp?qt=developer+Books+java+programming+java+objects+&charset=utf-8&col=main-developer-all&reslang=en
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