JSP Training. Hooray!
So for the next two days I’ll be sitting in JSP training. Now, on its own this is kind of cool, especially since it’s something I’ve been interested in for a while. Then again, I’m curious about just about every programming language, to the extent that I once ran out and bought a book on Lisp because I just had to have it. But, I digress. So, yeah, JSP.
My only concern here is that it might end up being like the last bit of training that they sent us to, which was for XSL. Holy crap was it horrible. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s a valuable thing to know for a web developer, but to a certain degree I knew it already, and everything that the gentleman in the black shirt told us was something that I very well could have just looked up on Google. That, and he decided it would be worthwhile to teach the language using a specific IDE. This is never a good idea, since it’s highly unlikely that we’ll all use the same tool set moving forward for the rest of time. I’ll take it a step further and say that unless you’re learning something like Eclipse plugin development, or you’re developing in .NET, it’s never a good idea to teach using the IDE. Ever.