Thursday, 17 March 2011

Exam 70-576 - Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Today I passed this exam - Exam 70-576 - Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications. More details here.

Monday, 28 February 2011

Friday, 4 February 2011

Windows Azure Training

I have just attended a 2-day partner training @ Saxons training centre in Sydney.
Instructor: Ryan CrawCour - Intergen NZ
@RyanCrawCour

The course was taken from presentations and labs within the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The kit includes a lot of Labs, Presentations, Videos and Demos. It also has a dependency checker to ensure local environment has all it needs to do Azure development.
The following powerpoint presentations were shown over the two days (they were 95% the same as the ones in the training kit)
  1. Windows Azure Platform
  2. Windows Azure Compute
  3. Windows Azure Storage
  4. Intro to SQL Azure
  5. Windows Azure App Fabric
  6. Storage Strategies
  7. High Performance Applications
  8. Advanced Web and Worker Roles and the Windows Azure VM Role
  9. Windows Azure connect
Links - mentioned during course

Two recommended blogs Azure management links Other sites/articles

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

JQuery Posts Updated to use JQuerify

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Prince2 Foundation Exam Success

Last week I went on PRINCE2 training in Sydney, I found it pretty interesting all in all at the end of which I took the PRINCE2 foundation exam and passed.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

C# - yield

The yield keyword was introduced with C# 2.0.

Here is some further reading;

Monday, 1 February 2010

Visual Studio 2008 Shortcuts

Following on from earlier post - Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL W S - Solution Explorer
CTRL W L - Server Explorer
CTRL W E - Error Explorer
CTRL W X - Tool Box
CTRL W O - Output Window

CTRL D I - Immediate Window
CTRL D C - Call Stack
CTRL D W - Watch Window

CTRL E F - Format Selection
CTRL E \ - Delete white space
CTRL E S - View white space
CTRL E C - comment selection
CTRL E U - uncomment selection

CTRL U - To Lower
CTRL Shift U - To Upper

CTRL + \ D - Code Definition Window
CTRL + \ M - Team Explorer

CTRL ALT B - Breakpoints window
CTRL ALT ↓ - Files Open List

Firefox Add-Ons

  • Adblock Plus
  • CodeBurner for Firebug (Extends Firebug with reference material for HTML and CSS)
  • ColorZilla (Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies)
  • CoLT (Makes it easy to copy link text and locations)
  • Delicious Bookmarks
  • Dictionary Search
  • FiddlerHook
  • FireBug
  • FireFTP
  • LeechBlock
  • Shorten URL
  • Tab Preview
  • Web Developer
  • YSLow

Thursday, 24 December 2009

Useful Utility programs

A good place to start would be Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows.

This is my list from 18 months ago - Utility Programs, Tools, Add-Ins plus other stuff.

Updated list.

  • Ninite - Pick from a big list of utility programs ninite will go get them all for you, install them and make sure the crapware toolbars and ebay links are not installed. Reviewed on HowToGeek.com.
  • Unlocker Assistant - When you try and delete something and you get the file locked message, the Unlocker Assistant will pop up, giving you the option to unlock the files and perform your delete. Download from here
  • DiffMerge -is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. Download from here
    • If using DiffMerge with Subversion, the following settings can be used to 'Diff' and 'Merge'

      Diff Viewer
      C:\Program Files\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe /t1=%bname /t2=%yname %base %mine

      Merge
      C:\Program Files\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe /m /r=%merged /t1=%yname /t2=%bname /t3=%tname /c=%mname %mine %base %theirs
  • SqlScripter - simple, low-cost tool for quickly exporting data

  • Foxit - a pdf reader

  • Paint.Net - a free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows
  • CCleaner - removes unused files from your system.
  • Driver Max - find updates for your drivers, also backup and restore them.
  • LinqPad - A great way to learn LINQ.
  • MWSnap - free screen capture software
  • Reflector - If you dont know about reflector, you probably dont need it.
  • DBAN - Boot and Nuke - DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Some random HowToGeek Links