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I just dropped in and your browsing the Lounge. 
Audio sounded like listening to a weak radio station during an electrical storm. Beep, gurgle, hiss.
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This place is getting more like Facebook every day.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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walterhevedeich likes this.
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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I just upvoted you.
See what I did there.
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Wonder if I should suggest auto-playing video ads in suggs and bugs?
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I must have popped in at the same point as others as you seemed to be going on an existential quest to work out the meaning of life, the universe and certain keys in the Paypal API. "Where does this value come from? Why do I use it?" I really needed to crank up the speakers to hear what you were saying as you spent a fair bit of time mumbling - you really should have used a professional quality microphone to capture your thoughts.
To be honest, while I can see what you were trying to achieve, it felt like I would have been better off watching a Pluralsight or CodeProject.TV video.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Pluralsight
I just found about this today. Is it worth spending money here for courses?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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It certainly is. The courses are excellent. And, of course, it's well worth checking out CodeProject.tv.
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Interesting. I am looking for a WCF course for intermediate to expert level professionals. I found a rather old series of blog on MSDN. Not that they are bad, but it seems REST is most preferred while showing code samples. For instance, I would have appreciated full implementation of IEndpointBehavior interface rather than inheriting WebHttpBehavior.
I will check out if there are fully course like videos on CPTV. If not, I will have to go with this website. Of course I will come after you to get my money back if I don't find the courses useful. 
On an unrelated topic, have you seen Codility[^]? I did a demo test and it looks interesting as well.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Code project has a TV station? Are there dancing girls??? 
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Ah, yes. Ruby Star. My cousin used to record with her after Black Oak Arkansas. But there were no rails or any other track marks. She wasn't really into needles.
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Looks like they might postpone his finals for a very long time?
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More like he's changing his major to soap picking...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Today I took a shot at the Microsoft 70-461 certificate, Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
I got a preliminary 812 points. I needed 700 to pass and the maximum is 1000. Not bad I say
That's my second (Microsoft) certificate in a month (and my second overall).
Luckily I won't get bored... I just ordered three new courses from the Open University 
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Congratulation!
I think about getting the MS Certified C# Developer certificate in the month between the end of my apprenticeship and the start of my military duty - How did you prepare for yours (The certificate, not the mil. duty)?
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Thanks!
The C# exam was not so hard for me since I already had 3+ years experience in C# so I knew a lot already.
I had also written some articles for CP already which helped me get deeper into the matter, which certainly helped during the exam.
I did read the following book though: MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#[^].
I answered all the practice questions and focused on the stuff I scored bad at. Even when you don't know the answer to a question the first time chances are you won't forget a second time!
With SQL Server I was not so experienced (although I've used it for a few years as well, but just the simpler SELECT statements). So I read the following book: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012[^].
I wrote two articles for CP about the subject (one is actually still a work in progress as I couldn't finish it on time for the exam, expected to finish after the holidays). This helped me A LOT since I had to think of how I was going to write down certain stuff and I had to think of use cases for the database I used. And as Albert Einstein said: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Again, I made all the practice questions in the book and focused on the parts where I scored bad.
Good luck!
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Thank you for the tips, Sander. I will consider them while learning for my exam.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Another thing that helped me, by the way, was to watch online learning video's. For example the Microsoft Virtual Academy[^] has some nice vids.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Thanks!
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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