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RE: Re: Training

• To: "Nick Abdullah" <nabdullah@c...>, "Don Box" <dbox@m...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Training
• From: "Andrzej Jan Taramina" <andrzej@c...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:15 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <CFC4F26947496E4092489B2425614958042D3571@s...>
• Organization: Chaeron Consulting Corporation
• Priority: normal
• Reply-to: andrzej@c...

> I agree that most developer training is dreck. That stated, certain
> technologies lend themselves well to total immersion in order to get
> certain insights and dare I say it, zen. This is especially true for
> deeply layered technologies (e.g., COM, XML).  I doubt that folks who
> learned XML from me or my colleagues had problems coping with PSVI, the
> role of WSDL bindings vs. portTypes, etc. Those concepts + the overall zen
> are hard to capture in a book (God knows I tried ;-).

True enough.  I have booked myself into courses at times, only because it 
would force me to spend the time immersed in the new technology, and would 
guarantee that I had the time to do it justice.  The courses were usually not 
nearly worth the money paid (re: the instructor, the materials, the curriculum, 
etc.), but just spending the time concentrating on the subject mattere meant 
that I got a lot of value from the "training", albeit in a rather roundabout way.

Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com

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