.NET Quiz
Take the .NET Quiz. I missed 1 of 20. It changes a couple of the items. [Sam Gentile’s Radio Weblog]
Hmm…I missed 1 also. When I took it again, looking for that perfect score, I missed 1 again. I think it’s rigged. ;-)
Who says Semiconductor Physics can’t be fun?
Sheesh…when I was learning this stuff, it was from a dry textbook and a monotone professor. Now this is progress!
This guy apparently does not get as much spam as the rest of us. He also does not realize that most spammers are illegally using the hardware and bandwidth of unsuspecting companies to send out their spam. This is where his “junk mail” and spam comparison falls apart.
[CamWorld]
Is this guy for real? I myself get probably 35 spam messages/day in my unfiltered account; and probably that number again in another filtered account. It’s gotten so I have to maintain an unmonitored account for usenet newsgroup postings. I think the guy who wrote this article must get maybe 5 spam messages a day, and they’re a manageable distraction at that point.
I used to be a MCT (I’ve been decertified this year, when they changed their requirements). The new requirements to be a certified trainer are:
And then, each year, you must renew your certification; to do this, you must do a number of things, including attend classes and strive to improve your instructional technique.
My problem with all this is that once you’re certified as a MCT, you can teach any Microsoft class. In the past, you at least had to pass a test for the particular class you wanted to teach, and attend the class. Now, once you’re certified, you can teach anything. Yes, anything. So I could teach course 981 – Supporting Microsoft SNA Server 4.0, even though I’ve never even started up SNA Server.
So sure, you’re saying, no one would do that. Fair enough. But when I go to training, I expect the instructor to be an expert in his/her field. If it’s clear to me that the instructor only has cursory knowledge of the subject at hand, or only has “book knowledge”, I’m very disappointed. I think this new certification policy will encourage “professional trainers” to fire up SNA server (for example), spend a week or two learning about it, and start teaching the class.
That’s too bad…I don’t know about you, but I want real-world experience brought into the classroom.
Welcome Greg Reinacker to the weblog neighborhood!
Greg is leaving Galileo June 14, and we’ll all miss him. Greg was our resident COM and Windows security expert, among other things. Last I heard, he’s still looking for his next gig, so if you’re in the Denver area and need a Windows guru, look him up!
Thanks Gordon. Working with our team at Galileo was a great experience, and the .NET experience we’ve gotten from working with the Microsoft e2a team was invaluable. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view), they decided to switch to Java; but if anyone is interested in doing cutting-edge web service work with Java and WebSphere, I encourage you to contact Galileo.
Galileo announces production web services
This is exciting news, if only because I’ve spent a big chunk of time over the last year or so making this a reality. The initial wave of web services are being delivered on .NET, and the next set of services will be with Websphere.
Chances are you don’t know me…so I thought I might give you a quick introduction.
By day, I’m a .NET consultant, doing consulting and training work. I’m just coming off a long-term engagement with Galileo, where I worked with Gordon Weakliem. I’ve been working on web services for quite some time; in fact, we deployed a product into production in 9/01 using web services (with a custom C++ SOAP listener – fun!).
By night (weekend, actually), I race cars. Much more of an adrenaline rush than writing code, believe it or not. ;-)
Well…here I am in blogger-land. Many thanks to Gordon Weakliem and Jon Udell for getting me up and running, and getting my subscribed list working. Radio seems to be a much more complex beast than immediately meets the eye.
I’m having a lot of trouble with Radio FTP’ing to my server. The symptoms are timeouts at some time during the upload process. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!