November 16, 2008
SQL8r at Øredev
The new database andministration and performance tool SQL8r (”Escalator”) is now available for download.
Check the homepage, sql8r.se, for more information.
And don’t miss it at Øredev.
January 6, 2007
VB.NET confusion
I’m not a big fan of VB.NET, maybe because I’m an old C programmer ever since Lattice C (Later SAS/C) on the Amiga 500, those were good times, programming with MUI 1994 was pretty much where .NET is today (at least for small-medium sized desktop applications).
The screen shot below from Visual Studio 2005 brings a new saying: “Verbosity brings confusion”
What does it mean anyway?
January 1, 2007
Cert summary 2006
During 2006 I took 4 Microsoft certs. It all started when I started to work as a consultant in the Microsoft Dynamics team in Denmark, on the Dynamics NAV product, which was previously named Navision and was developed by a danish company that was acquired by Microsoft some years ago. Therefor I had to start commute every day from Sweden, giving me a lot of free time on the train. So I started to read Andrew Troelsen’s book Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition, a rather talkative book that covers quite a lot of ground for the Application Development Foundation cert and some of the Windows-Based Client Development cert, and some more I guess. After checking the study guide and reading up on MSDN I was set to become a Technology Specialist, the step before Professional Developer. To become a PD you need one additional exam that two of my co-workers said the took without additional studying , so I tried as well and can confirm that I don’t know how to study for it, if you don’t have the required experience.
And after the exams are completed you get the rewards: a welcome kit and the right to use these images from the MCP site 
Once you get into the habit of studying for exams, and gain some knowledge of how the tests work it’s just to continue…
