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Issue 5.3 / April 2008

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Expert's Corner
Things are heating up!

Jim White — Intertech Partner and Instructor

Happy Spring (both the season and the technology… read more below)!

Learn Spring at a FREE webinar. This webinar will be held on May 22 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM CST and will be delivered by yours truly. Registrations are limited. Sign up for the Free Spring Seminar today.

Intertech FREE monthly Oxygen Blast Podcasts are available by subscribing to the Intertech RSS feed located on Intertech’s site: http://www.intertech.com/downloads/podcast/intertechpodcast.xml

Intertech is launching Intertech Elite Rewards™. This program offers discounts for pre-purchasing training, simplified enrollment, special offers for the first run of an Intertech course, early registration for Oxygen Blast events, and preferential treatment for course enrollment and scheduling. To learn more about Intertech Elite Rewards and contact us at 651-994-8558 +23.

In this issue we have:

A presentation on how Web 2.0 fits into the enterprise

A Podcast (Part 2 of 2) on Spring. Like the Webinar, this is also delivered by me

Career advice if you find yourself on a sinking ship

A comparison of independent vs. certified training

Five IT projects that should be on your radar

As always, check out Intertech’s free Twin Cities Java User Group and Visual Studio Team System Minnesota user group.

Have a great month,
Jim White
Intertech Partner and Instructor

Career Expertise

In a Sinking Industry? Jump to Another Ship
Sarah Needleman — CareerJournal

After his systems-engineer position was outsourced in late 2006, Korey Reid took his career in a new direction. He's now a sales manager at a firm that provides computer-based training—a job he got by leveraging the expertise he gained in his 15 years in technology…

Architecture Expertise

Web 2.0 for the Enterprise
ZDNet

Web 2.0 is getting plenty of hype and the leaders making enterprise technology decisions should understand the role of Web 2.0 technologies such as mash-ups, wikis, blogs, tagging, and RSS feeds (note, this is a WebEx on demand presentation and requires registration)…

Software Development Training

.NET	Mar	Apr	May

Complete Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)	—	9-11	5-7
Complete Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)	—	23-25	19-21
Complete Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)	26-28	—	—
Complete C# 2005	17-21	21-25	12-16
Complete Visual Basic 2005	—	—	5-9
Complete ASP.NET 2.0	24-27	28-1	—
Complete BizTalk for Developers 2006	—	28-2	—

Java	Mar	Apr	May

Complete JSF using Eclipse	31-2	—	21-23
Complete Java	24-28	—	19-23
Complete Hibernate	—	30-2	—
Complete Spring using Eclipse	—	15-18	—
Complete Struts using Eclipse	—	23-25	—

SQL	Mar	Apr	May

Complete SQL Server 2005 Integration Services	—	—	28-30
Complete SQL Server Reporting Services	—	1-2	27-28
Complete SQL Server 2005 Administration	17-19	—	12-14
Delta SQL Server 2005 for Developers	17-18	—	15-16

Microsoft Official Curriculum	Mar	Apr	May

Introduction to C# Programming with Microsoft .NET	17-21	21-25	12-16
Introduction to Visual Basic .NET Programming with Microsoft .NET	—	—	5-9
Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET -	24-27	28-1	—

Project Expertise

Five IT Projects That Need Your Attention Right Now

Dustin Puryear — CIO Magazine

You have only so much funding and time, so don't waste either of them. These projects can make you a hero or at least can save you from one of those terrible "learning experiences."

Coding Expertise

Spring (Part 2 of 2)
James White, Intertech Partner and Instructor — Intertech

Spring is a lightweight open source application framework that utilizes simple plain old Java objects (JavaBeans) to construct applications that previously were only possible with technologies like EJB and mounds of JDBC code. This, Part 2 of 2, Oxygen Blast Podcast is delivered by James White, Intertech Partner and Instructor…

Management Expertise

Independent vs. Certified Product Training: Reducing your Total Cost of Ownership and Mitigating Risk

Tim Morris — ASPTech

Buying a product is simple, but using it correctly and efficiently usually involves a lot of tough steps. The key to effective and efficient use of a product is always training…