Master of all Microsoft certification
According to the website,
The new Microsoft Certified Master series offers advanced technical training and certifications on Microsoft technologies that go beyond any product training offered outside of Microsoft today. IT professionals who successfully complete the training program and certification testing validate their skills as product experts who successfully design and implement solutions that meet the most complex business requirements.
Mind you, this is not a certificate you can get by studying brain dump, candidates are required to attend a 3 weeks training at MIcrosoft’s Redmond campus, passes 3 written exams and one lab exam. Like Cisco Certified Master, I think the hardest test to pass is the lab exam where actual production issues are simulated and candidates are required to solve it in the given timeframe.
How much is the cost? Since it’s the master cert, and you got to go to Redmond to learn from the gurus, the whole cost training + exams will cost you USD18,500. The 3-weeks training is valuable regardless whether you pass the exams or not because it is taught by people (or master I should say) who really know their stuff.
Below are technologies offered in the MSM program
- Exchange 2007
- SQL Server 2008
- Active Directory
- SharePoint Server 2007
- Office Communications Server 2007
So you think this is very ‘geng’? MCM can go for the new Microsoft Certified Architect (Technology focus) program here after they got the cert. Its different from existing MCA (Solutions/ Infra) programs which are technology agnostic.
Intel Core i7 upgrade for RM3,000!
Just downloaded CZone’s price list today and first thing I realize is the Core i7 blue logo. Gee… I didn’t expect it to come out to white box vendors so fast. They only published the price of the cheaper 920 at RM1,150. Since Core i7 running on a new chipset architecture, any upgrades would need a change of mobo too, which will cost you another RM1199 the least. If you are like me still running the older Pentium 4 CPU then you got to upgrade your at the same time. Nowadays you can’t go anywhere without 4Gb from RAM which cost another 540 minimum (from Kingston). So in total an upgrade to Intel Core i7 will burn about RM2,900. I not sure whether my 320Gb SATA HDD will still work or not…
Enter a Fraction in a Cell in Excel 2007
To enter a fraction, simply prefix it with a zero and a space. So to display the fraction one-third, type 0 1/3. This will display 1/3 but will have an underlying value of 0.33333333.
Unit Testing in SharePoint (without a MOSS Server!)
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team have recommended using Isolator for Unit Testing a Microsoft SharePoint application, and their newly released SharePoint Guidance requires Typemock Isolator to run the Training Management application’s unit tests.
“Typemock Isolator is a great way to open up the world of unit testing to SharePoint developers. Unit testing SharePoint applications is an important part of our soon to be released P&P SharePoint Guidance and Typemock Isolator is integral to our unit testing guidance.”
In conjunction with the launch, Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here.
The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free. for rules and info click here.
FCKEditor themed aspnet error in file browser
According to the post here, If you are greeted with the following error when trying to upload files using the file manager:
Using themed css files requires a header control on the page. (e.g. <head runat="server" />).
You don’t need aspnet themes within the fckeditor folder, so simply add a web.config file in the folder, with the following content:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages styleSheetTheme=""> </pages>
</system.web>
</configuration>
That would not work because it miss out another setting which is the ‘theme’ setting, so the correct settings would be as below:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages theme="" styleSheetTheme=""></pages>
</system.web>
</configuration>
For FCKEditor, this web.config file need to be located in the same folder as the upload.aspx file.
I believe not just FCKEditor but also most of the ASP.NET project out there.
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
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