There haven’t been a lot of updates to the site lately. That’s because I’ve been studying for the Microsoft 70-536 exam, covering the .NET Framework Fundamentals, which I successfully passed today. This is the gateway exam – pretty much all of the development series starts with the 70-536. I thought I’d share some of my [...]
Here’s a little detail to nit-pick: Windows 7 shouldn’t be the 7th version of Windows, unless you’re doing some funky math. Let’s recap. The last numbered version of desktop Windows was 3.1 (Windows for Workgroups), which preceded Windows 95. That would make Windows 95 effectively Windows 4. Now, after that, Microsoft released Windows 98, then [...]
Did you get the chance to read that Visual Studio will be shipping with jQuery support included in the future? This news just made my day, more or less. If you aren’t in the know, jQuery is a really well developed JavaScript framework library. It includes support for things like making AJAX requests, easy DOM [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about exactly where Microsoft has put their operating system lately. It’s obvious to everyone other than pure MS loyalists and apologists that there has been a lot of useless junk (amongst a few hits) coming out of their operating system division. OS development is arguably the core of Microsoft – [...]
