Attention Computer Geeks! Which training would you take?

by Elsewhere 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  It is time for me to choose which training classes I want to take. This is a very new experience for me! I have been a contractor for a long time and I'm not used to my employer asking me what I would like to do... and have them PAY FOR IT!

  Basically we are a Microsoft Shop. All of the new development is in .Net C#.

  Some ideas that were tossed out are:

  • BizTalk
  • Sharepoint
  • ASP .NET v2.0
  • Master Pages
  • SAML

  I guess I would be most inclined to go with the item that would make me most valuable to a company, but I am not very sure what BizTalk, SharePoint, Master Pages and SAML are.

  Those of you who do know about these things... which would you choose and why?

  Also, I am not restricted to this list... so if you have any suggestions, what would it be?
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  FMZ

  I'm a LAMP guy myself mate, but I see a lot of ASP and .NET being bandied about these days. If you want a sure thing, go for that, IMHO.

  FMZ
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  xjw_b12

  Pottery clases are nice, but I think you would prefer doing nudes in charcoal
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  Pole

  I'm use LAMP and Java J2SDK/J2EE technologies for my projects (I'm not a professional programmer, but I program a lot for my computational linguistics research). The only name which makes any sense to me is ASP, so I'd probably go for it ;-). Not much help... But it sounds interesting to have your employer pay for your training.
  
  Pole
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  AlmostAtheist

  When VB/ASP was microsoft's golden child, everything had that flavor to it. All their scripting stuff related to it. Now that .NET is their focus, I would bet it will swing that way. I have done a tiny bit of ASP.NET and it's very complicated, and that was using VB script. If a class in anything would benefit you, a .NET class probably would. Getting a good working knowledge of the framework would help you with VB/ASP/C#. Unlike everything else you've bumped against in the field, .NET is very hard to learn "on the fly". (I think this is by design, since Microsoft has a consulting division and can only benefit from pushing out stuff that's hard to learn without their training.)

  Dave
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  Swan

• ASP .NET v2.0

I had classes in this last spring and summer and it rocks! Before that I was trying to develop in ASP.NET but just couldn't get anywhere trying to learn it on my own. Now I have completed one major system and will soon be working on my next. In the meantime, my employer is sending me to the developer conference in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. I hope to pick up a lot more of the stuff that we touched on in class, but didn't have a chance to use and reinforce. It should be kinda cool, in a geeky sort of way.

Tammy