He's so sick of VB that he was willing to get up at 6am this morning to get on the train out to Haslmere. *groan and double groan*

Hang on, it's a Friday. Shouldn't you people be working for a living instead of poncing around the Surrey countryside?

Well, it was indeed a punishing time to get up.
And it was well worth it - we went right through the basics from installing Java, Ant, Eclipse, Tomcat and ProgreSQL, to having them all playing happily together.
Steve was a lovely host and Simon did us very proud as coordinator and advisor and trainer, and I came away having had such a good day that we them covered a bit of Spring and Hibernate on the laptops on the train on the way home.
Of course there was a hearty pub lunch, but then as Geeks on a Nerd Day on a Friday we could hardly miss out on part of the stereotype now could we?

I look forward to some more!

Andy - this is the scary nerd part - they took the day off as holiday to mess around with Java.

Agreed, a great day was had. Simon is NOT a rubbish trainer - I came away with a working understanding of "the dark art" of building a web application.

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