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Exam 70-113 Vouchers Arrived Today!

I have been holding up doing my next Microsoft cert because I wanted to use the free vouchers I got for taking the pilot 70-113 and today is the golden day I got the email with my 3 codes so I am going to sift through my schedule and set ...

Win a Free Laptop If Your a US Microsoft MVP!

Matt Hester announced on his blog a chance to win a free laptop or some other prizes, all you have to do is create a screen cast that shows the use of PHP and IIS 7. The catch being that you can only enter if you are a Microsoft MVP ...

Recent Articles published

I have been pretty bad about updating my article list, so here are the recent ones that have gone up over at Train Signal Training Here is a quick rundown: Microsoft Certifications — Past and Future IIS 7: Install FastCGI & PHP on Server 2008 Install MySQL on IIS7 Server 2008 Install PHPMyAdmin on IIS7 ...

getVIRTUALnow roadshow by Microsoft

On Monday I went to the Chicago stop of the getVIRTUALnow roadshow with a some of the Train Signal crew. I like the new direction Microsoft has taken with the product launch/showcase events. In the past I disliked going to these because of they showed very little tech and more ...

Microsoft reaching out to the developer and IT Professional communities on Windows 7

Today marked a launch for two different blogs aimed at two different respective communities from the Windows 7 team and also the Windows Client team, which I take are closely related. For the developer in you you can see the new Windows 7 Blog for Developers which promises in its first ...

Microsoft’s Small Business Summit October 2008

For the next 3 days Microsoft is broadcasting live feeds of some very successful small business owners and secrets to their success for free on the site http://www.sbsummit.com The three days are divided by topics and are setup as follows: Tuesday Oct 14th: Sales & ...

Last call for 70-113 the new Virtual lab based exam

There is a post on Born to Learn today about them extending the registration for the pilot program. I wrote about my testing experience taking 70-113 back in August and how positive I thought the experience was. As an added incentive if you are one of the first 3000 ...

Free Microsoft Hyper-v Virtualization Training

So I was taking a break from writing to look through my RSS feeds and found a very cool post from Ken Rosen over at Born To Learn that has a link to free E-Learning courses from Microsoft that will help you get familiar with Hyper-V technology and the new ...

Are You An MCP?

There has been a lot of confusion out there when it comes to the new certifications from Microsoft. This is partly because the old certifications are still in play, and the new ones don't conform to the same framework of named designations as they have in the past. One ...

Beginning C programming class

I started my beginning C programming class this weekend, with the obligatory first chapter of what a CPU is. Generally a waste of time that first week, but whatever. I hope C comes as easily to me as Fortran did. I am kind of stoked that the ...