[Novalug] Fwd: Announcing our Fall Professional Development Seminar - Nov 20-21, 2010

[Jon LaBadie]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:04:47PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50:42AM -0400, Isaac Christoffersen wrote:
> > Since there was some interest on this list about an Android
> > discussion, I thought I'd pass this along.  DC ACM is offering Android
> > and iPhone training next month.  Details below.
> > 
> > Isaac
> 
> Can anyone speak to the quality and value one can expect from DC ACM
> trainings?
> 
> This is interesting to me, but, I would like to hear from others before
> I commit to spending the $600. 
> 

I attended two sessions two years ago.  I think it was the first year
after a period of no training sessions.

As to the quality, it will depend greatly on the instructor.  I don't
thing any of the offered topics have been repeated and it is likely
that the instructor has prepared the materials specifically for the
ACM training.  The sessions I attended (intro & intermediate with the
same instructor) were OK, not great.

The training environment when I attended was quite good.  The hardware
for the hands-on exercises was outstanding.  Sun workstations with dual,
quad-core, Opteron cpu's with IIRC, 24GB of memory and large monitors
running some version of linux.  Desk space for course materials was
tight however.

HTH,
Jon
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