Tag: Teaching
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Some things I have to remind myself periodically
Here are some instructor tips I’ve learned but have to remind myself over and over again, because I forget. 1. If a student asks a question that I’ve just finished answering, keep in mind that if the student is thinking, they’re not listening to me. That’s a good thing. 2. Just because a student is…
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Design Patterns
The class I’m teaching this week and next is a massive, customized combination of Design Patterns, JSTL, JSF, Spring, and Hibernate. It’s going to be an adventure. Today, though, we were digging into patterns. Design patterns has usually been my favorite course to teach. If teaching is all about giving people the ability to do…
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Ajax in Amsterdam
You know what I hate? When I feel my phone vibrating on my hip and I’m not wearing my phone. This is my first time in Amsterdam. The training site is an IBM center, but I think this is just a room rental. I’m a sub to a sub to a sub again, so it’s…
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World Traveler
One of the cool things about this job is that every once in a while I get an email like this: —————————————— From: one of my training company clients To: Me Subject: Want to go to Europe next week for us? Would you like to go to Amsterdam next week to teach an Ajax class…
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Philadelphia and Fun with RAD6
Back to Philly this week, doing servlets and JSPs with RAD6. At least they remembered to install RAD6 this time. Last week they didn't, and it took four hours to download and install the product. I might even try running the updater and see what happens. In the meantime, it's Hibernate some more. I'm going…
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EJB’s in RAD6 in Columbus, OH
This week I'm in Columbus, Ohio, teaching a five-day EJB class in RAD6. As I learned last week, IBM would prefer I call the product IRAD, meaning IBM Rational Application Developer. That's going to be a tough transition, assuming I try to do it at all. The students this time are from the State of…
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IBM Enablement class, Bloomfield, CT
This week I'm sitting in an IBM enablement class for intro Java, servlets and JSP's, and the toolset (I think those are SW244, 284, and 287 for those keeping score at home). Since I've taught all this material many times, it's a bit of a challenge keeping quiet when I disagree with an approach. I'm…
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Philadelphia, PA
It's Philly this week. I've got an interesting group who work for the same company last week's students work for. Maybe I can come up with some kind of inter-city competition — a game, a puzzle, or something. I'll have to think about that. This week is all about making the OO transition, but this…
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Westborough, MA
I wrote a nice, long post, hit the "Publish" button, and was rewarded with the dreaded 404 Not Found error. I guess I shouldn't be surprised — computer networks have not been kind to me lately. I think I forgot to swing the mouse cable over my head counterclockwise when I sacrified that chicken by…
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Hello from Jacksonville, FL
This week it's "Practical Core Java" in Jacksonville, FL. I'm a sub to a sub to a sub again, but that's okay. The class is taking place at a New Horizons site in Jax. That's great, though, because I don't have any serious firewall issues to worry about and I automatically have admin access to…