The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- Edgar Dijkstra
Welcome to the website of S. A. Cole. I have twenty two years of programming experience and training experience. Today I provide software archictecture design and implemenation services for banking and point of sale industries. My areas of expertise include image and document archive systems, image quality assurance, POS and RDC/X937 (also known as Check21) processing, as well as back office banking processes and barcode processing. I also have many years of experience merging and updating production systems where there can be no down time during the cutover. I also design and implement web based UIs using HTML and Javascript as well as Java technologies including the completely amazing GWT which finally delivers on the promise of a desktop experience through a web browser.

I also teach for Southern Polytechnic State University's Continuing Education Center. I teach certificate and open enrollment classes in Java and Java technologies. (Sorry, I no longer teach the Web Certificate through SPSU). The open enrollment classes cover the Java language; students may be absolute beginners or updating their skills from another programming language. The certificate program covers most of the J2EE technologies and GWT.

NEWS: In January, 2010 Laura Raines, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed me for an article on Java, Java technologies and Java training available at Souther Polytechnic State University. The article appeared in the the Jobs section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday, January 31, 2010. You may view the article here.

SPSU Training Courses
Beginning Java A 5 session introduction to programming using Java Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm, 1/9/2010 thru 2/6/2010
Accelerated Java Convert your existing programming language skills to Java, 5 sessions Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm, 3/20/2010 thru 4/17/2010
eBusiness Solutions in Java This certificate program covers XML, JDBC and SQL, JMS, HTML, Servlets, JSP and GWT Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 10 pm, 4/20/2010, thru 6/29/2010, 21 sessions (10.5 weeks)

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