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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified

Still catching up on my blogging, so this one's a little old. The irrepressible Trika blogged about the VS2008 series of certifications and included a bunch of different paths through the tracks based on your current certification status. There's also
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Friday, May 02, 2008 10:13 AM

MS Press Online Store now open in Australia with discounts for UG members until the end of May

I got this note from Tania Netterfield, our partner manager for CPLS and the local MS Press representative. Hello all, I’m delighted to advise you that our press distributor Woodslane in conjunction with MS has developed an Microsoft Online Press
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:05 AM

SQL Server 2008 Certification Live Meeting (APAC Friendly Time)

I was in a meeting today with Tania Netterfield and she shared some certification plans with me that I'm itching to announce ... but I have to wait. In the mean time, Trika's announced that they've rescheduled the SQL Server 2008 Certification live meeting.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:48 PM

VS2008 Certification Live Meeting - 24 Jan 2008

Via the irrepressible Trika : Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification team to find out what is new, and what you need to know, for your next step in developer certification. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:50 PM

Wow, Now I'm MCPD!

Call me unusual, but I like doing the MS Certification exams . First, some history. My first exam was way back in 1999, when I participated in the beta program for the (then) new Visual FoxPro exams, 70-155 (Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications
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Monday, June 25, 2007 10:41 PM

Certification at Tech.Ed

David Williams has been talking about certification, and he links to " this entertaining blog by Trika Harms zum Spreckel ". Trika will be coming to Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast in August. We'll also have some great deals on certification taken at Tech.Ed,
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:49 PM

Making your MCP Transcript Public

One of my colleagues pinged me yesterday asking how someone could prove to their employer that they were an MCP (or, conversely, how the employer could check such a claim). I pointed him to the MCP Transcript Sharing Tool. The MCP can provide the employer
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 2:37 PM

TechEd 2007 Thinking Part 1

TechEd 2007 is happening in Australia (on the Gold Coast) August 8-10 and in New Zealand (in Auckland) August 13-15. As Chuck said some weeks ago, I'm the guy on point for content in Australia and have been thinking about content and delivery for the
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:07 PM

The TechEd Developer Goodness just gets Gooder and Gooder!

Developer Cabana Sessions Following on from my previous post , there has been a great response to the Developer Cabana sessions - so much so that they're already fully booked! I've increased the room capacity slightly, so it'll be standing room only at
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Sunday, November 20, 2005 12:13 PM

Studying for another Beta Exam (71-536)

Looks like Mitch is studying for 71–536 as well. I’m signed up to do it AFTER the Ready Launch – on Dec 20. For 71–528 , we had a study group chat . Mitch has taken a different tack, doing individual blog posts on each of the skills
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Monday, November 14, 2005 8:53 PM

71-528 Study Group Chats - Fourth Transcript Posted

Another meeting this evening where we kind of covered off some of what was left after the first three sessions. Transcript Skills being measured
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:04 AM

Third Study Group Session Transcript Posted

We got "together" again last night for our third study group session . Once again, I've posted the transcript . This is also linked from our Skills Being Measured page. I’d have to say we didn’t get nearly as far as we might have this evening.
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Monday, November 07, 2005 10:38 PM

Using the AdRotator Class + Dynamic Image Generation in ASP.NET 2.0

As part of my study group homework, I promised to bone up on the AdRotator class in ASP.NET2.0 and report back to the group. Turns out this lead to another cool thing that I needed to report back on - dynamic image generation. The source code I’ll refer
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:22 AM

71-528 Second Study Group Chat Session Transcript Posted

Update – Fixed the transcript link We got "together" again last night for our second study group session . Once again, I've posted the transcript . This is also linked from our Skills Being Measured page.
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Monday, October 31, 2005 9:26 PM

71-528 First Study Group Chat Transcript Posted

We didn’t get as far through the 71–528 skills as I’d hoped, but we had a good chat about some of the first section. I’ve posted the unedited transcript . Thanks again to Tatham for hosting the chat. Please join us on Wednesday
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