Training

SQL Server Whitepapers

Devin A. Rychetnik — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:04:00 GMT

A colleague of mine found this great resource of SQL Server whitepapers: http://www.sqlskills.com/whitepapers.asp.

How Deep Do You Want to Go?

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:39:00 GMT

I've known about Channel 9 for quite some time, but a colleague of mine just shared the Going Deep section of it with me today. Here is a short description of what it is:

“Charles Torre travels around Microsoft to meet the company’s leading Architects and Engineers to discuss the inner workings of our core technologies. Going Deep is primarily concerned with how things work, why they are designed the way they are, and how they will evolve over time.“

Check out the current line-up of videos it offers:

Arun Kishan - Process Management in Windows Vista
Programming in the Age of Concurrency: Software Transactional Memory
Programming in the Age of Concurrency: The Accelerator Project
Singularity IV: Return of the UI
Singularity III: Revenge of the SIP
Doron Holan - Kernel Mode Driver Framework
Barry Bond: Emulation, Emulation, Emulation
PhotoSynth: What. How. Why.
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopoulos
'SQL Everywhere Edition' - What. How. Why.
ADO.NET Entity Framework: What. How. Why.
Rob Relyea - There's Something About XAML
Diving into the Vista Heap
InfoCard - Deep Architecture
Louis Lafreniere - VC++ backend compiler
Greg Schechter: Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) Architecture
Jim Hogg: Phoenix Framework
Windows Shell Architecture
Going Deep: Richard Ward - Engineering security into Windows Vista
Oughtness, Isness and the world of systems management
WPF Imaging
Virtualization
Eugene Lin and Jason Cobb - Windows Plug and Play
Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture
Vista Audio Stack and API
Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
Surendra Verma: Vista Transactional File System
Singularity Revisited
Landy Wang - Windows Memory Manager
Windows, NT Object Manager
Singularity: A research OS written in C#
Chris Anderson - Talking shop about Avalon
Nar Ganapathy - Windows, the IO Manager and Driver Model, Part II
Nar Ganapathy - Windows, the IO Manager and Driver Model , Part I
Windows, NT Cache Manager - Molly Brown - Part II
Windows, NT Cache Manager - Molly Brown
Windows, Part IV - Dave Probert
Windows, Part III - Dave Probert
Windows, Part II - Dave Probert
Windows, Part I - Dave Probert
Neal Christiansen - Inside File System Filter, part II
Neal Christiansen - Inside File System Filter, part I

I've got a whole lot of viewing time ahead of me.

10-Week Free AJAX Programming Online Course

Devin Rychetnik — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:47:00 GMT

Course Abstract

The Web is going through the second wave of its evolution and some people call it Web 2.0. Whether Web 2.0 is considered a hype or not, there are indeed a set of concrete technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) that make the Web of today a lot more interactive, responsive, exciting and useful than it used to be.

This workshop starts with a lecture and a hands-on lab in which the basic concept of AJAX and the core technologies - JavaScript, CSS, DOM, and XMLHttpRequest - that make up the AJAX are discussed and exercised. The workflow of AJAX operation is also discussed in detail using an example code.

In production environment, it is likely that you would use one or combination of various AJAX toolkits and frameworks. The majority part of the workshop is dedicated to discussing key frameworks and toolkits that are available today for building AJAX applications. These include

Client-side JavaScript toolkit such as Dojo toolkit, which hides the low-level processing of XMLHttpRequest
DWR (Direct Web Remoting), which enables RMI-like invocation from the JavaScript client code to backend Java class
AJAX-enabled JSF components which allows you to build AJAX applications by drag-and-dropping UI components
Wrapper technology such as jMaki that lets you use AJAX widgets from different sources using common interface
Java to JavaScript translator technology such as Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Existing Web application frameworks with AJAX extensions such as Wicket, Echo2 or Shale

Finally, the AJAX development tools such as JavaScript debugger (especially FireBug), DOM inspector, logging tool are discussed. Each lecture is followed by a hands-on lab session. The hands-on labs use NetBeans IDE 5.0 or 5.5 beta.

(This description and more information on how to sign up can be found at http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/.

If my evenings weren't already full with computer course studies, I would take it myself. Hopefully, one of you out there reading this can do it and share the highlights with those of us who aren't so fortunate.

Free Beta Exams via MSDN Flash

Devin Rychetnik — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:16:00 GMT

* Beta Exam Invitation for MCAD and MCSDs February 13 - March 12

These free beta exams will count toward certification in the same way as the final version of the exam:

MCAD Exam 70-552 - Upgrade: MCAD Skills to MCPD Windows Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (use promo code 552BTA).

MCSD Exam 71-553 - Upgrade: MCSD Microsoft .NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Application Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework - Part 1 (use promo code BTA553).

MCSD Exam 71-554 - Upgrade: MCSD Microsoft .NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Application Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework - Part 2 (use promo code UPG554).

or Pearson VUE <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4436709>.

Microsoft E-Learning

Devin Rychetnik — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:36:00 GMT

I must've missed this somewhere in all the newsletter announcements I receive from Microsoft, but I just came to realize that there are a bunch of e-learning courses available right now, some of which are free for a limited time. Check out the course catalog here: https://www.microsoftelearning.com/catalog/.