Melanie and I just returned from the hospital. It appears I have torn some muscle in my leg. The doctor was nice enough to give me a cane to use around the apartment and strict orders to say off my leg for at least two days. Hmmmm I’ll still need to go out to eat.
It appears kirbyland.net, WASTEDBoarding.com, and WCAV Radio are down at the moment. My DSL provider is doing emergency repair work this week, which is probably the cause of the outage. I’ll post another announcement once everything is up and running again.
Believe it or not I finished the 5K run [officially 3.5 miles] through Central Park. I am excited that I did it. And I finished in 35 minutes!
Warchalking is “collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking.” Makes me want to walk about the city to see if this London craze has caught on in New York.
Tonight I run my first 5K run through Central Park. I am running in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge New York Race #3. I was really looking forward to tonight’s run but after hurting my leg a week ago I don’t know if I am as excited. With my luck I will finish the run with a good time but end up in the doctor’s office tomorrow morning for yet more X-rays. It figures it is the same leg I hurt earlier in the year snowboarding. Maybe I am getting too old for this sort of stuff. Nah…
I had a brief chance to check out Merant’s PVCS Version Manager - the web version of their Version Control Software. I was impressed by the offering but I still prefer CVS with TortoiseCVS.
I may have helped in keeping this fire going but I don’t really remember.
It pretty much common knowledge that Americans are overworked. And this is specially true in the IT community. This has been bothering me a lot lately as things other than work are becoming top priorities in my life. (Sidenote: For those wondering, those other things include Melanie and snowboarding.)
I forgot to mention, those taking the test will also need to know how to work with a thread’s principal object. In a nutshell, this exam asks a number of low level questions not typically found on many other Microsoft exams.
I just completed the latest Microsoft C# Beta Exam: 71-320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with C#. This exam is much harder than the previous one I took, which I did pass. Unlike the previous exam, this one focuses on server-side work with Web services, server components, and Windows services.
Those planning to take this test should know about Web setup projects, strongly typed dataset, implementing and debugging Windows services, COM+, transactional Web services, .NET remoting, remote component deployment, publisher policies, and lots of ADO.NET with SQL Server. The questions that surprised me the most were ones related to strongly typed dataset. These questions asked specific questions about the XML Schema for the dataset and how to manipulate the schema, apply constraints, and setting relationships.
Overall, I am sure I failed this test. And it has made me realize how little I know about the .NET Framework specifically in the area of remoting. Time for me to crack open more books and write more advanced applications and services with .NET and C#.