Today I attended a day-long class on web-service technologies. (Yeah, late to the party.) Being a programmer was not a prerequisite (though it helped), and most people there weren't. This wasn't so much about programming and software design as about getting from WSDLs (web-service specifications) to code and vice-versa, and about understanding
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Having integrated with, but never built, web services, I was familiar with some of the material already, but I took it because there was a lot I didn't know how to do. I'd guess that I got a few hours' worth of knowledge out of the day-long class, which I'm not unhappy about. That said, there exists a follow-on class for Java programmers and I think that would be more up my alley, if I can arrange for them to bring it in. In the meantime, I've asked my manager to approve some "just exploring on my own to solidify what I learned" time to actually, y'know, go write something.
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