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Chit că am zis că mă întorc cu un calup de poze, m-am întors cu vreo trei propriu-zise din Suceava. Şi alea cu gara Burdujeni că pe ultima sută de metri am zis că ar fi fun să am şi eu două-trei poze La cetate era grămada de lume. Deci nici să fi vrut (ok, am vrut) n-aş fi apucat să fac vreo una. Ah, şi gara Burdujeni e singurul lucru frumos din tot cartierul

E vreun an de când n-am ajuns în Suceava, şi anul trecut mi s-a părut cine-ştie ce oraş. Încă mi-e drag, încă-mi place acolo, dar uneori parcă-i lipseşte ceva (îi lipsesc mai multe dacă îl iei la o comparaţie cu un oraş mare, dar asta n-are relevanţă. basic human needs vorbind). Din punctul ăla de vedere, mi-ar place mai mult Iaşiul. Dar Iaşiul îmi place şi numai pentru Bucium

Altfel, de azi new job. După ce, când am schimbat acum două luni job-ul am primit un şut în fund de mărimea unui asteroid, am găsit ceva profitabil acum. Aceiaşi arie, evident. Şi e ok.

Am terminat de citit Julian Barnes - Trois - şi mi-am amintit îndeosebi de nişte telenovele spre sfârşitul cărţii. E diferită pentru că întreaga situaţie este văzută într-un mod amuzant,şi pe alocuri cu introspecţii sănătoase. Altfel, the fine line e foarte foarte fină. Şi tot vreau să văd ce-i cu Julian Barnes - Cafe au Lait. Cu puţin noroc, şi un pic de răbdare, mă duc sâmbata asta la iaşi pentru nişte book-shopping. Cărtureşti rulz :D. Până una alta, mă apuc de China Mieville - Staţia pierzaniei.

Motănelul o să mai aştepte o vreme - mostly pentru că eu caut o rasă - mâţul de pe cutiile whiskas - exact culorile respective. Iniţial, mă uitasem după o birmaneză, dar o mâţă rotundă de atâta păr vine cu două tăişuri - e mai simpatică, dar implică mai multă muncă, năpârleşte mai mult etc. Şi tot în materie de mâţe - still in a state of wuving kittens.

Şi de azi mă reapuc de învăţat serios pentru MCSD.

Now playing: Art of Noise - Moments in Love

Strictly English for this post. I’m a nerd.

So, as I was saying before, in the verve of taking the Microsoft exams listed here - I am going to talk, while going through them (the learning at least) about each and every one of them. Still, I ain’t that sure that until July I am going to actually learn everything I need to know. Which can kindda annoy me. Over the edge.

70-315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Ok, so what does that involve ? If I could attend the 3 courses needed for this exam - it would be like this:

1. Course 2310: Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET (five days)

•	Explain the Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET
•	Create a component in Visual Basic .NET or C#.
•	Create an ASP.NET Web application project by using Visual Studio .NET.
•	Add server controls to an ASP.NET Web Form.
•	Create and populate ASP.NET Web Forms.
•	Add functionality to server controls that are on an ASP.NET Web Form.
•	Use the Trace and Debug objects that are provided with Visual Studio .NET.
•	Use validation controls to validate user input.
•	Create a user control.
•	Access data by using the built-in data access tools that are available in Visual Studio .NET.
•	Use Microsoft ADO.NET to access data in an ASP.NET Web application.
•	Accomplish complex data access tasks from an ASP.NET Web application.
•	Access Extensible Markup Language (XML) data and read it into a DataSet.
•	Call an XML Web service from an ASP.NET Web application and incorporate the returned data into a Web application.
•	Store application and session data by using a variety of methods.
•	Configure and deploy an ASP.NET Web application.
•	Help protect an ASP.NET Web application by using a variety of technologies.

2. Course 2640: Upgrading Web Development Skills from ASP to Microsoft ASP.NET (three days)

•	Assist with the creation of functional specifications.
•	Design and develop user interfaces (UIs).
•	Create ASP Pages.
•	Write Web Forms applications.
•	Create and test prototypes.

3. Course 2389: Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (three days)

•	Describe data-centric applications, ADO.NET architecture, and ADO.NET and XML.
•	Connect to SQL Server and other data sources.
•	Perform connected database operations including executing SELECT commands, database definition commands, dynamic SQL commands, and commands that return data from a SQL Server database in XML.
•	Build a DataSet schema, populate it with data, and modify the data programmatically.
•	Build a DataSet from an existing data source.
•	Use XML techniques while working with DataSets, including mapping tables and columns, creating XSD schemas, building strongly typed DataSets, and interacting with XMLDataDocuments.
•	Build a Web service that uses ADO.NET to query and update a data source.
•	Troubleshoot errors within an ADO.NET application.

Using Microsoft E-Learning would get me in the exact same place, but it takes a while longer when you’re all on your own. Searching from some Romanian books for MCSD in the mean time. Hopefully, I’m going to find something useful, with a price that doesn’t go too much overboard. Wish me luck.

Future edit:

Recommended to be used in training: MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® .NET, Second Edition

Download e-book: ms-press-70-305-70-315.pdf

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Now playing: Joshua Radin - Sundrenched World

La work de data asta. S-a lansat noul release django, 0.96. Some of the new features:

As of changeset 4901, we’ve added the ability to name URL patterns. This is a great help with reverse URL matching. See the new docs.

Have you seen django.contrib.localflavor yet? An example of our “batteries included” philosophy, it’s a collection of functions and data structures that are useful for locale-specific applications. The biggest part of localflavor at this point are django.newforms-style Field objects that validate an assortment of country-specific data. For example, we’ve got validators for U.S. Social Security numbers, phone numbers, states and ZIP codes; post codes in Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, and the U.K; and government identity numbers for a number of countries. Plus, we’ve got more coming. If you can think of (and, better yet, implement) some locale-specific logic that would be useful to a number of people and localflavor doesn’t yet handle, please contribute!

Work progresses on the newforms-admin branch, which aims to integrate Django’s admin site with the newforms library. Along the way, we’re taking the opportunity to add extra customization hooks to the admin site. Much of the implementation is done already, and it’s now possible, using the branch, to run multiple instances of the Django admin site, with different configuration, in the same Django project. This is exciting stuff; see the status section of the wiki page for some examples of what’s changed.

We created a unicode branch this week. Malcolm Tredinnick will be taking the lead on making all of Django’s internals fully Unicode-aware, once and for all. See the branch wiki page for more info.

Câteva features excepţional făcute, the new forms admin branch crează dependenţă de-a dreptul. Download here

iRiver T10 track: Porcupine Tree - Trains