ArsDigita Provides Free Web Development Training to Thousands Worldwide.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000 ArsDigita passes 1000-attendee milestone for Boot Camps; Over 2500 people attend free seminars in the first half of 2000 ArsDigita Corporation, the worldwide leader in software solutions for collaborative commerce, today announces that the company has passed the 1000-attendee milestone for its free Boot Camps and more than 2500 people have attended the company's free lectures and one-day seminars in 2000. The ArsDigita Boot Camps are free, intensive workshops on Web site development held at ArsDigita locations around the world throughout the year. Recent Boot Camp locations include Cambridge, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Washington, D.C., London and Munich. For a list of upcoming Boot Camps, classes, lectures and registration information, visit http://www.arsdigita.com/events. ArsDigita Boot Camps teach attendees Web, database, and community service development skills. Boot Camp attendees are required to have a background in computer science, programming or Web site development, as the mission of the Boot Camps is to help people who already possess software engineering ability by teaching them how to build Web services. Attendees won't learn all the skills taught during ArsDigita founder Philip Greenspun's popular semester-long course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . However, they will learn about Web programming and an approach to developing Web services that as Greenspun states, "won't be featured on suck.com." Attendees learn how to develop Web services using the freely distributed open-source ArsDigita Community System The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) was an advanced Open Source toolkit for developing community web applications developed primarily by developers associated with ArsDigita Corporation. (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ) suite of collaborative commerce applications, used to build Web services by organizations such as Oracle, Away.com and WineAccess.com. To help attendees complete the Boot Camps they will also cover the basics of the SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. programming language, HTTP protocol, and the special features of Oracle databases. Participants work independently to complete as many as five problem sets, relying on online information, Q&A forums, and in-class instructors for help. The number of problem sets addressed during Boot Camp depends upon the session's length, which is either one, two or three weeks long. Greenspun, with contributions from ArsDigita employees and former Boot Camp attendees, wrote the problem sets and ArsDigita employees who have themselves completed the problem sets act as Boot Camp instructors. Over 2500 people have also attended ArsDigita's free lectures and one-day seminars on Web services given by Greenspun thus far in 2000. ArsDigita's founder has lectured across the world, and will be visiting numerous cities in the U.S. and internationally including Australia, India, China, Brazil and Korea in 2000. Seminar and lecture attendees learn about what makes a good Web service, Web development tools, search engines, a site's content structure, databases, e-commerce and what lies ahead for the future for Web services. About ArsDigita ArsDigita Corporation is the worldwide leader in software solutions for collaborative commerce. Some of the world's largest organizations rely on the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), the company's open-source, freely distributed suite of applications, to drive their online success. Web sites and technologies incorporating the company's software include Hewlett-Packard (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Siemens, America Online (NYSE: AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq; ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Away.com and Environmental Defense. Privately held, ArsDigita has grown to seven offices in the United States, Europe and the Far East, with annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues of over $30 million. For further information visit http://arsdigita.com. |
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