Just saw the announcement of the 2008 MCT Summit to be held in Berlin, Jan 14-16 2008. Don’t think I’ll be able to make it but it is a great meet-up for MCTs from all over Europe to get all the info ready for Windows Server 2008, VS2008 and SQL 2008 launches in February. You can sign up at the URL below with a cost yet to be decided between €500-650 + flights and hotel.
October 19, 2007
October 18, 2007
Microsoft Courseware Library
Not sure how I missed this, but Microsoft have opened a courseware portal for MSCLC’s, MCT’s and students to download courseware slides, labs and manuals. Its different content to the MCT courseware download centre and there are only about 40 titles there at the moment. Strangely the site doesn’t use live logon, but does take your email address and watermarks it onto the downloaded PDFs.
http://cwlibrary.mslearn.net/page/home.aspx
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January 24, 2007
BrainBench
A colleague mentioned he had to take a BrainBench as part of a job interview, which for the unitiated, is a (potential) test of your skills in a particular subject. I’d been aware of BrainBench for a while but I just looked at it again, and they offer testing yourself as well as for employers now. A single test is a hefty $45, but for (a still hefty) $199 you can sign up for a year and take and re-take as many tests as you want, at least thats better value for money at a 4 test breakeven.
Amazingly, there are over 600 tests in all fields, not just IT, although IT is most numerous. I’m always wary of these tests as they can highlight misleading results. I think they are a useful pointer but not the whole story, and of course are only as good or comprehensive as the test authors. Caveat Emptor.
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January 23, 2007
SQL Server 2005 EE Training Videos
MS have published a set of training videos for SQL 2005 EE which start from complete novice, ie What is a database ? Whilst they are a bit basic in expertise, they do give a quite comprehensive, high level overview of the SQL Server features including reporting services. Obviously aimed at the hobbyist, they are a great step forward in educating people on this type of technology.
Anyway, they are here http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/learning/default.aspx
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