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I realized that, depending upon how the instructor looked and how amenable she was to . . .
(I'm not sure just where the KSS border is when it involves educational material).
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I have started going to tech meet-ups (www.meetup.com) and, in Dublin at least, they are an absolutely excellent way to get access to knowledgeable people who are doing the thing (technology, architecture, management process) that you are investigating.
And they are (nearly always) free.
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I've recently discovered these, some also have free beer/pizza.
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Wastedtalent wrote: some also have free beer/pizza.
That starts to sound a bit tempting. Are you obliged to talk about IT or are you allowed to talk about girls and football and whatever?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Some are more presentation based so you can just sit and listen, some are more interactive. Some go for a beer after, where you can them try to impress the girls in the local watering hole with your new found wisdom [Disclaimer: This might not work on the ladies every time].
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I've been running a Programming Special Interest Group at my Computer User Group for over 25 years. Started out with Visual Basic 1.0 and now Programming in general.
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There's only so much greasy pizza I can take from all the meetups I've been to!
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I've started one in Bedford.. next one is next Wednesday but it's more a case of pre-Christmas beer before getting more serious again in the new year 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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First place I check out, the website of to-be used technology.
I prefer a quick start section with some basic explanation and examples, nothing I can't do in about 15 minutes.
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To keep an "up-to-date" overview (meaning... ok I know there is something on this direction and I can go deeper) Codeproject is the best.
To gain some depth about a particular topic, articles are more than enough.
To learn something in depth about a general topic or new technology without hurry, I prefer the structured content of a paper book
and if it is to learn something really new in a short time, I prefer the face-to-face classroom with few people and with a teacher where theory and praxis go together and questions can be answered immediately. That's presupposing (of course) that the teacher is competent.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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 Agree with everything especially CP being a top resource for learning/staying current.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I prefer my tech material about CListCtrl printed on BACON and distributed between two slices of bread ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You forgot some important things... ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) and ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You can't print any meaningful technical info on either of 'em! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But you can use them as ink to write it on your venes
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You can draw on the froth (One Look is Worth A Thousand Words).
However, this requires a kind of beer that is served with froth (Guinness Draught would be perfect) or a Latte.
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Guiness for C++, the latte for VB, no?
Software Zen: delete this;
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It was not my intention to establish a relationship between beverages and programming languages.
But real programmers men would go for beer or black coffee
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