July 2011

My tutorials for Cairngorm that I authored back in 2007 have been by far the most popular thing I have ever blogged.  They have been viewed over 150,000 times, and they still get thousands of hits per month.  With the move to the new blog, I wanted to be sure that everyone knew how to get to the tutorials (on the archive site).

Education has been a topic on this blog many times before.  Between my own time in college and my time working at Georgia Tech, I have had quite a bit of time to look at different programs.  I have often asked myself, “If I were a high school senior and I wanted to be an enterprise RIA developer, what program would I go into today?”.

Any program has to have a great mix of theory, process, and real world development.  Full Sail does a great job of mixing these three so that students have a great deal of knowledge but also are employable the first day after graduation.  In addition, students get a good experience with the overall development process by working on real world projects while at Full Sail. 

This is a part of the reason I have agreed to join the Program Advisory Committee for Full Sail University’s Web Design and Development degree program.  I feel that over my decade in web development I have learned things that can help the next generation of developers, and I am excited to share that knowledge with such a great institution.