by Monique Bulette
17. March 2010 14:30
Yesterday, QuickLearn released their training schedule for the remainder of 2010.
Due to increased demand, QuickLearn doubled their BizTalk Server 2009 course offerings including the new dates for the BizTalk Expert Series for ESB Toolkit 2.0.
Check out the calendar to see all upcoming classes!
by Justin Shands
8. March 2010 08:58
After spending hours learning to play the fake guitar simply to get a higher score, I often wondered why someone couldn’t make a game to learn useful skills. Where’s arithmetic Hero? Going-to-bed-on-time Hero? Microsoft Office Ribbon Hero?
Well, at least the last one finally exists. Microsoft Ribbon Hero lets you learn to use the Microsoft Ribbon and earn points while doing it. They even have Facebook integration so you can compete against your friends and coworkers. (My FB account is here, if you want to challenge me)
The premise of the Ribbon is based on sound UI design (it’s even won awards), but it’s so different than what we were used to. If you’re like me, you’ve figured out where your most commonly used items are on the Ribbon, but haven’t fully explored the other features and often have to hunt for that one option that you use so rarely. Well, let’s take that need for points and apply it to learning something we can actually use in everyday life.
Finally, a game you can play in front of the boss. After all, you’re increasing productivity!
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by Monique Bulette
2. March 2010 11:15
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On March 15th, students from around the world will be attending QuickLearn’s newly revised 3-day version of BizTalk Server 2009 ESB Toolkit 2.0 course.
QuickLearn’s expert developers just added an entire third day of advanced hands-on training that teaches you how to build a complete end-to-end ESB 2.0 solution.
Attendees will learn the A to Z of the ESB 2.0 Toolkit including installation and configuration, creating a flexible, secure, and reusable infrastructure for services, and building composite applications to create new end-to-end business processes.
Sign up now to secure your spot!
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by Nick Hauenstein
1. March 2010 15:07
The .NET Endpoint blog announced this morning the availability of Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2, which can be downloaded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric. According to the announcement, Beta 2 was written to work against the RC of Visual Studio 2010, and is apparently now feature complete:
This build represents our “feature complete” milestone. That is, it contains all the features that we plan to ship in Windows Server AppFabric v1 by Q3 of 2010. For this release we focused on building a provider model for persistence, monitoring, and cache configuration stores. In our Beta 1 release we supported only the SQL Server based persistence and monitoring providers that we shipped and supported only an XML file based or SQL Server based cache configuration store. In Beta 2 we now also support providers for other database platforms or for other types of stores, in the case of persistence and cache configuration.
This is an exciting milestone for the team, and will certainly be a great time to begin evaluating Windows Server AppFabric for inclusion in upcoming projects.