My feedback

From Awesome SOA project

Feedback in style that I think would be best and copying others: question - answer.

• What is the added value of attending this course for you?

Hm... Starting this course I heared nothing about SOA. My thoughts were concentrated on programing languages and thats all. In this course I realize that technologies are not what is all about. Ofcource they are important but in SOA way yuo can do it far more easier. And you must care not how to do it but how to use it! It‘s more fun I think So this course gave me a lot of starting points to various interesting things like NLP, SOA, Yahoo pipes, Microsoft Popfly, Xfruits, and a lot of services flickr, del.icio.us, Google technologies. I can‘t say that I didn‘t know this before but after this course I started to use them and even think where I can put all this I think that this is the greatest success for me.

• What is the immediate benefit for you in your current professional situation?

To answer what is the immediate benefit for me from this cource is easy. I think that is my current job:) at the moment I work in Sintagama and it is a funny story how I join in there. After 2 or 3 weeks from the Saturday when A.Šermokas joined our lecture my current chief called me and invited for a interview. When we met I "incidentlly" mentioned that we have quite intersting "monolog" from A.Šermokas and I allready know what projects Sintagma do and what is all about. This meeting for me was just a game and I hope nothing form this just wanted to see how Sintagma looks like. In the end of this meeting they said that they maybe call me in a couple of days ant we will meet again with higher heads in Sintagma actualy one of them is A.Šermokas. Quite funny but after 2 hours they called me and said that I can start work I think that A.Svirskas and G.Zlatkus brainwash gave me "some" advantages to join there.

• How do you see SOA being helpful in your professional environment?

Now I work in governmental projects department and project which we do consists of many separate projects like JAR -„Juridinių asmenų registras“, GR - „Gyventojų registras“, NTR – „Nekilnojamo turto registras“ and other but all of them are Lithuanian. So SOA is a base key on this project. And all this lie on my shoulders.:P Ofcourse this project is not single, there are a lot of others which maintain SOA. One big minus is that all of them are governmental and all services which we use are Lithuanian and made using old technologies. And the main care is about safety. What I traying to say that there are no possibilities to play with SOAP because thay prefare old and time tested technologies. "That piss me off most".

• How do you see SOA in 5 years from now?

Joining this to my work I really hope that maybe in a couple of years webservices like googlemaps ant others will join to such projects whitch we do now. Because there are customers requirements which would be easier to fulfil using such services. But that‘s just a hope.

Thinking about local perspectives I think the biggest brake of SOA is businessmans who thinks that if they do webservices that other businessmens can take infomation from freely they lose customers. One day will come up people who can change this thinking and this businessmans see that this is business too.

• What are the pros and cons of "totally online" computing?

After a year (some maybe a month or a week depends on people) using car we don‘t imagine our life without it and how we can go on foot. After a year (the same) using computer we don‘t imagine our life without it, it‘s far more faster doing things using it. After a year (the same too) using Internet we can‘t live without it ant so on.. So this day is comming it‘s bad or good who knows. We will see in the furure.

• How would you use Web 2.0 in a commercial projects?

Looking at our projects as Jelena notice and raised the i dea:

• elbO - weather & route plan mashup
• Panteros – TravelLIt
• calsbergGroup - Odontologijos klinikos
• LMP – Fuel prices
• + rich interface

And you get valuable commercial project. What I mean is that using data mash-ups, rich interfaces you get valuable project faster and easier and using less resource. Maybe not allways but one really good thing about it is that everyone is responsible for things that he know best...

• How would have you organized this course if given a chance?

This question is the hardest for me because I wouldn‘t change it at all really I don‘t skip any lesson and even don‘t take a nap during it this explanes everything maybe it wasn‘t ideal, there was some brainwash as J. Bedžinskas mentioned something was repeated in G. Zlatkus stories but everyone take what was interesting personaly. As mentioned my colleagues the practical task should be anonced earlier. I don‘t agree with this Ofcource I speak for myself because I don‘t know how they did their practical task but we are all students and all do everything last night maybe last week.. Really I hate that but sometimes it‘s the best way to do best things So for me in this course everything was good enough.

• What the lecturers were good at?

As Andrius mentioned in his feadback there was lectures where lectors come to us from France and even brought some maybe more advanced people like J. Briggs and D. Svirskienė. So these Saturdays were cool. If I have time I think I will ghost there and next year.

• What topics would you want to include into the remaining sessions?

If my colleagues wont be angry on me I would like more brainwash Speaking about topics it would be interesting to hear not only about SOA using SOAP.

So in the end I would like to thank A. Svirskas and G. Zlatkus for wonderfull lessons and as I mentioned in the begining for my new work Also I would like to thank Soa-Tigrai team and Panteros team showing right direction to me (maybe us) that our SOA Project reach the successful end. Also Elbo for help in service deployment

Syja

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