Forgot to mention you can get a free 10-day trial just to see if the online material match your needs.
Well worth a look. Colin On 19 November 2013 17:18, Colin Johnsun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > This time, I'll be constructive :P > > I've found that some on-line training courses to be of great help. > > Personally, I've have a yearly subscription to Pluralsight ( > www.pluralsight.com). > > This has an amazing number of quality on-line courses and there are a > large number of .net courses. > > These courses cover from the basic fundamentals to advance stuff on > various .net frameworks and libraries. > > On a cursory view of the pluralsight courses, I found a course on the > fundamentals of VB.net. > > Unfortunately, you'll find that most courses (both on-line and > face-to-face) tend to lean towards C# development. > > In any case the advantage of Pluralsight, is that the cost of subscription > ($US299) is cheaper than sending a person onto a one-week .net training > course ( > $1000). > While, the training course is only for the one week, the Pluralsight > subscription is for 12 months which mean you can revisit the online > material as many times as you like in that 12 month period. Further, due to > the many number of courses, you can take the course which matches to your > level of knowledge and skip anything you feel is too basic and easy. > > So your colleague's company can get a business annual subscription for 3-4 > developers (US$299/person) for the same price as sending one developer for > a one-week training course. > > Regards, > Colin > > > > > > > On 19 November 2013 14:48, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> While I agree that switching Delphi to C# (or VB) is simple on the >> surface, there are some significant differences in the libraries and the >> approach to some issues is fundamentally different to get an optimal >> result. Hence my colleagues wish to hit the ground running with the best >> roadmap he can. >> >> Stephen >> >> ---- Original Message ---- >> *From*: Jeremy Coulter <[email protected]> >> *To*: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" < >> [email protected]> >> *Sent*: Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 4:40 PM >> *Subject*: Re: [DUG] Conversion training >> >> I would agree. Don't do VB.net, move to C#. We do Delphi and C# and we >> basically learnt C# on the job writing code for a specific project making >> use of the plenty of good stuff on the net about how to do "stuff" in C#. >> The transition from Delphi to C# is quite straight forward if not similar >> (funnily enough). Once we learnt what we thought was enough we attended a >> C# course to see what we did wrong :-) >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:16 PM, David Brennan < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Remind me in a few years to short sell shares of whatever company you’re >>> dealing with… >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of * >>> [email protected] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 November 2013 3:58 p.m. >>> >>> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi Lis >>> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Conversion training >>> >>> >>> >>> While we all agree with you that C# would be the way to go IF you have >>> to go .Net, the powers that be (in Denmark) have decreed that VB is the be >>> all and end all and they can get heaps of cheap Indian labour to cut code >>> in it :-( >>> >>> >>> >>> Stephen >>> >>> ---- Original Message ---- >>> *From*: Colin Johnsun <[email protected]> >>> *To*: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" < >>> [email protected]> >>> *Sent*: Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 3:47 PM >>> *Subject*: Re: [DUG] Conversion training >>> >>> If you have to move to .Net, why not do it properly and move to C#??? >>> >>> >>> >>> You really can't seriously talk about "future" development and VB.Net in >>> the same sentence without someone choking on their lunch. >>> >>> >>> >>> Colin >>> >>> >>> >>> On 19 November 2013 10:44, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All >>> >>> >>> >>> I've been asked by a colleague for a recommendation for a training >>> organisation (or trainer) to lead a team on the conversion from Delphi to >>> .Net in the Auckland area. While the team is screaming at the change, >>> the organisation has decreed that future development will be in (groan) >>> VB.Net >>> >>> >>> >>> Most of the organisations advertising .Net training are offering courses >>> for beginning developers while what is needed is cross training for >>> experienced Delphi guys. >>> >>> >>> >>> Anyone have any recommendations (other than find another job)? >>> >>> >>> >>> Stephen >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >>> Post: [email protected] >>> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >>> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >>> Subject: unsubscribe >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >>> Post: [email protected] >>> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >>> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >>> Subject: unsubscribe >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > >
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