Training (free)

[mrstrong]

As I never get to go on any training and am generally too busy to learn about new tech

in my own / work time I feel I'm falling behind a bit with all the latest developments.

 

Whilst browsing over lunch came across

 

https://www.dmsystem.co.uk/technical-seminars

 

which looks quite interesting. Has anybody ever attended these type of events? Are they worth it

or is it likely to be a sales pitch?

 

Perhaps I'd be better just going AWOL for the day with a laptop starting eg here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/azure/

[TechMonkey]

Book a weekly meeting that you only abandon for real emergencies or priority meetings. Use this meeting as R&D or CPD time. Investigate something you want to deploy or read up on a tech.

 

If you book it then at least you can cancel it, if you don't it will never happen.

[gmonks]

As I never get to go on any training and am generally too busy to learn about new tech

in my own / work time I feel I'm falling behind a bit with all the latest developments.

 

Whilst browsing over lunch came across

 

https://www.dmsystem.co.uk/technical-seminars

 

which looks quite interesting. Has anybody ever attended these type of events? Are they worth it

or is it likely to be a sales pitch?

 

Perhaps I'd be better just going AWOL for the day with a laptop starting eg here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/azure/

I went on a couple of these events and genuinely found them very useful. I haven't been for 3-4 years since I moved but I attended 2-3 and I learn't a lot. Yes there is a sell of their own software at some point in the day, but otherwise I learn't a lot and would recommend.

[CPS-Stimmers]

I've been thinking of training and things, this sounds like a great idea.

[mavhc]

Most useful thing I went to was a free MS event, as they demo'd the new WDS system, wim files, adding drivers to the boot.wim etc, even though I was deploying XP I still used half of it, and then easy switch when moving to 7