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To: Lazamataz
Can you program (efficiently and well) in Java?

Sadly, no. But I'm a quick learner. My last job (which I had for four years) was as a supervisor for an international call center. I supervised the office here in Denver and the one remotely in Vancouver over an EIC (phone via WAN) system. I also served on a team that wrote code for our active desktop applications but it was all in HTML and XML. No Java experience. Maybe it is time to get some.

29 posted on 04/14/2002 5:03:10 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Kalashnikov_68
I'm taking a Java class online through the university. It's rather useless but you get some exposure to Java. I have Javascript experience so it is nothing new. I installed Java on one of my test webservers and I am going to write some hooks in an Ergonomics system we are hosting on our box. Java is free and practical experience is better than college experience.

Code-wise, Java is just like any other web language (PHP, Javascript, etc). The university pushes it to the students but writes their own apps in PHP.

If you really want to learn coding, go to sourceforge.net and download one of the open-source apps and look at the code. Change the code and watch what happens.

35 posted on 04/14/2002 5:17:42 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Kalashnikov_68
"My last job (which I had for four years) was as a supervisor for an international call center. I supervised the office here in Denver and the one remotely in Vancouver over an EIC (phone via WAN) system."

It seems that call centers are moving to Canada. I've seen this trend for some time now. Lower cost of personnel, government incentives, unbelievable comm infrastructure. For example, during my previous consulting days, I had a client in New Brunswick (out east in the Maritimes). There, there was fiber to the curb everywhere. This attracted major call center business. Just an observation.....................but while I'm on the subject, have you considered the possibility of looking up in The Great White North where your skills could be quite valuable?

160 posted on 04/15/2002 4:37:00 AM PDT by RightOnline
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