OO Programming Newsletter #35 from Bruce Eckel
January 2002

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* In New York City
* Prague Mini-conference
* The state of public seminars
* Thinking in Java in Atlanta & Boston
* Java2 Enterprise Programming Seminar

See the Calendar for the current schedule:
http://www.mindview.net/Calendar

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* In New York City

I will be spending some time in New York, and so will be occasionally available 
to speak at user group meetings and for consulting such as design evaluations 
and code walkthroughs. Contact to inquire about 
availability.

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* Prague Mini-conference

The courses for the Prague event (May 13-17) have been finalized. We are 
presenting four five-day seminars:

Objects & Patterns: 5 days of Java Design
Taught by Bruce Eckel & Bill Venners

XML and Friends: A Course in Software Integration
Taught by Dave Bartlett

Hands on Extreme Programming
Taught by Alan Ewald & Owen Tallman

The weekend after the seminars will be a small one or two-day conference which 
will include the speakers from the seminars, as well as others.

Sun Microsystems will be a sponsor and promoting the event, so it's possible we 
could fill up -- last year the European attendance was good, and seemed 
relatively unaffected by the US economic situation.

You can find details at:
http://www.amaio.com/seminars/

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* The state of public seminars

In the past 12 months we've gone from virtually never cancelling a seminar to 
cancelling many of them. The combination of dot-com fallout (and the ensuing 
cutbacks in training budgets, which would seem to be the first thing to fall to 
the costcutter's axe) along with 9-11 travel reductions appear to be the 
culprits, rather than a sudden loss of interest in the seminars that we give. 
I'm confident this situation will eventually change, perhaps this Summer. We are 
currently starting to schedule the Summer & Fall Crested Butte seminars and will 
plan a full menu, including a new seminar that I'm creating based on the success 
of the "working sessions" from last Summer.

In the meantime, everyone seems to have plenty of other projects on their 
plates, and there are regular enough requests for in-house seminars to fill in 
the gaps, so we are taking advantage of the lull.

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* Thinking in Java in Atlanta & Boston

The Thinking in Java seminar will be playing at:

- TIJ Atlanta, GA
  March 25-29 2002, hosted by Center for Manufacturing Information Technology
  http://cmit.edi.gatech.edu/Atlanta/CMIT_visitors.htm

- TIJ Boston
  April 2002 - Dates and venue to be announced soon

For detailed information and registrations, please see
http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/ThinkingInJava

___| Until Next Time... |________________________

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