[mplspm]: Local Perl training?

[James.FitzGibbon]

We have had both really good and really bad experiences with Euler.  Two of
our people went to Beginning Perl and had an great instructor named Jeff
Wolfe.
Then a few weeks later they went to Advanced Perl and had a terrible
instructor
whose primary focus was CGI programming rather than Perl as a generic
language.

In discussions with our Euler account manager, we found out that Jeff Wolfe
is no
longer training for them and the second (poor) instructor is now the
permanent Perl
person at Euler.  This is a shame because the other courses we've sent
people to Euler
for (UNIX, KSH, etc.) have been really well taught.

We have also found nothing locally; we plan on bringing someone from Tom
Christiansen's
group in sometime in May/June.  They charge $3000 a day for up to 12 people;
when you
work it out (even allowing for T&E) the cost per day per person is less than
any of
the established schools like Euler or HOTT.  For that caliber of training,
it's a real
bargain.

*** disclaimer *** the above (sans TCPC pricing) is my opinion, not my
employer's or
client's.  If someone has had a good experience with Euler's Perl training
recently I'd
love to hear about it.

-- 
j.
 
James FitzGibbon                     
Consultant, Ajilon Services, TTS-3D at TPN4H 
james.fitzgibbon at target.com
voice/fax 612-761-6121/4277
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Conty [mailto:Mark_Conty at cargill.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:23 PM
> To: mpls at pm.org
> Cc: sumika_chai at cargill.com
> Subject: [mplspm]: Local Perl training?
> 
> 
> Someone here at work asked me about Perl training in-town, 
> and I had to
> shrug.  I checked with majordomo at pm.org, but there doesn't 
> appear to be an
> archive for this mailing list, so I can't go back to see if this is
> something that's been asked before.  (Or is there an archive, but it's
> stored elsewhere?)
> 
> I snooped around in www.pm.org, www.perl.org, and 
> use.perl.org.  In the
> last, I found a reference to yet another site, perltraining.org, where
> among other things, they had a list of about a dozen Perl training
> institutions in the USA.  Unfortunately, they were not 
> grouped by state
> or anything like that.
> 
> Looking in Yahoo, I found that our very own Euler Solutions 
> (Dennis, are
> you still on this list?) is supposed to offer some Perl 
> training.  Does
> anyone know about this offering, or any other Perl training 
> offering here
> in the Cities?
> 
> Thanks...
> -- 
> Mark Conty
> APS/NAGO IT Group
> Server Team - MS 64
> 952-984-0503
> 
> 
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