The first training was provided by my employer not long after I began. I remember it being a week long. Site Server as a product was phased out not long afterwards, replaced (kinda) with Sharepoint Portal.
The Defibrillator training was cool and useful but hardly related to my daily job. It was provided by the company I'm contracted to, not my direct employer.
As was the BPMN training, which was also cool, especially watching the little twitch the instructor got every time you said "flow charts".
This week I'm on ASP.NET training. There isn't anything about ASP I couldn't tell you about, and I've done a bit of .NET, so the course is just teaching me how to say them fast enough so there isn't a space between them. I'm getting there. "ASP .NET". No... "ASP.NET". Woo!
Seriously though it is teaching me something, and at least giving me the confidence that I do actually know this stuff enough to design software in it, rather than just thinking I do.
And it's solidified my theory that there are almost no database skills in the development world beyond SELECT. And almost no course I'd want to do, except maybe Data Warehousing. That looked cool. CUBES!
The training is in South Melbourne so I get to ride the light rail. Light rail is pure awesome and our entire city should be covered in it. Screw trains.
Meanwhile the guy that is supposed to cover me was sick Monday and Tuesday so work was in meltdown for a bit. No phonecalls today so I guess they're either all puddles now or I'm no longer needed. *sigh*