Re: Class introduction: Doug Shackelford

Cool guys, thanks.
Also... if one is more shy (shyer?; terse?) one could say: "My name is 
Vic, w/baseBeans, I won trainer of the year last year and I like movies 
like  "Lone Wolf and the Cub" (check Amazon reviews)"

BTW.. at least one person who took my class recently, was out of work 
for like 6 months.... found a job, and sent me an e-mail that they felt 
that my training helped a lot (not real sure how, but my stuff is 
practical).

Make sure you get the 97_2 version of Jasic and install pgSQL before 
Sat. and you are set.

.V

Doug Shackelford wrote:

>I haven't seen what an introduction should look like so...
>
>* Georgia Tech 89 BS
>* UNC-CH 91 MS
>	Worked until 94 on my PhD in distributed hypertext systems --
>everything we were doing was pathetic compared to the emerging web.
>
>* Nortel Networks 94-99
>* The Object People 00-00 -- worked on the TopLink O-R mapping tool
>--started one month before WebGain bought them -- Feb-March 2000
>* WebGain 00-01 -- laid off one month after 9-11
>
>Used Smalltalk, then C++, then Smalltalk again, and finally Java.  Love
>Smalltalk.  Respect Java.  Hate C++.
>
>Love client-server.  Trying to love server-side.  Still don't like HTML
>browsers as user interfaces.  Trying to see the light.
>
>Walking in darkness, found Struts, Tiles, Eclipse, ant, xdoclet, and a
>host of other open source initiatives.
>
>Started learning Struts and was impressed until I realized that even in
>Struts the obvious path wasn't obvious.  Got confused.  Didn't want to
>learn yet another hack.  What little of JSP I'd seen was hideous.
>Needed Struts, but desired to learn best practices.  Discovered it to be
>impossible from a book.
>
>Lost hope.  Searched web and found nothing.  Found BaseBeans on a search
>of "Master-Detail" and CRUD.  Was struggling with the whole
>Action-chaining thing.  Looking for alternatives.  Signed up for the
>mvc-programmer mailing list.  Found this class.
>
>Long story guys, I know.  There have been times in my life when I
>thought that I was a true artist creating things of beauty for my
>clients.  And many more times that I have felt like a street hustler
>drawing a cheap portrait.  I got paid either way, but there was a
>difference.
>
>I'm 35, unemployed (and looking), happily married for four years, and I
>have a teenage step-daughter.  She almost has her driving license
>(groan). :-)  I love nature and walking.  My wife and I are planning a
>trip to Niagra Falls on July 18th, so Vic had better not push the course
>out more. ;-)
>
>My wife is a cell biologist at the University of North Carolina with a
>Nature paper to her credit.  She's originally from Russia although I met
>her in the US through an online dating service.  It happened that we
>lived within 10 minutes of each other but we would have never met
>without the web.
>
>Best vacation I've ever had was Hawaii (more specifically the Garden
>Isle of Kauai).  I also enjoy trips to the Outer Banks of North Carolina
>for surf fishing.  The coolest thing there was one afternoon when my Dad
>and I caught several Manta Rays.  (Of course, we threw them back!)
>
>Anyway, that's me.  If anybody knows of any J2EE contract work in the
>Raleigh/Durham, NC area let me know.  As of now, I'm investigating the
>interesting TechEngage initiative (www.techengage.org) that is hooking
>up unemployed programmers with non-profit agencies that need their help.
>
>--Doug 
>Doug Shackelford
>919-967-0083
>[email protected]
>
>
>  
>

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