Introduction

I moved to Australia recently (since Aug 2011) after I joined Readify team in Melbourne, VIC. I have to say since then it has been a great experience in such short time.

Readify is hiring national wide & overseas. For overseas candidates; Readify will sponsor you to come & work with them in Australia. Why don’t you read about our recruitment process?

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Introduction

Before taking any exam, we usually start to prepare for that exam. Using official learning material like Microsoft learning products, reading blogs and articles or using exam preparation tool. And maybe all of that. The easiest way is to go through an exam preparation and simulation tool.

But that about a tool that gives you a preparation guide to help you learn, practice and track your results. This is pretty much what uCertify exam preparation products would give you.

And here I’m going to give you an overview and a review about uCertify M70-668: Pro Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

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Yesterday we released KiGG 3.0 and baselined the source code for version 3. No major changes in this release. We upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2.0 on .Net 3.5 SP1 & VS2008.

This release is going to be the last release on .Net 3.5 SP1 and VS2008. We plan to upgrade to .Net 4.0 and migrate the solution to VS2010 and start use Entity Framework 4.0 and maybe abandon LINQ to SQL support.

Visit http://kigg.codeplex.com for more information.

Here set of requirements for your development workstation if you are planning to rebuild the source code or customizing it.

Development Workstation System Requirements

• Visual Studio.Net 2008 any edition with SP1 (Express Editions should work)
• .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM
• Included reference libraries (xUnit, Moq, DotNetOpenAuth, Enterprise Library etc...) -available with source code download-
• Database (Only one option is required)
  • SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
  • MySQL 5.x
• IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)

About the book

Title: Microsoft Entity Framework in Action
Publisher: Manning Publications
Url: http://www.manning.com/mostarda/
ISBN: 9781935182184
Chapters: 19 + 2 Appendices | ~500 pages
Authors: Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis, Daniele Bochicchio
Overall rating: 9.24 out of 10

This book was in Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) while writing this review. I reviewed a draft released on 12^th August 2010. This is a detailed review where I rate each chapter and describe it’s contents. The overall rating mentioned above is the average of all chapters’ ratings.

Personal Opinion

I highly recommend this book. No further knowledge about Entity Framework is required. So you don’t have to know anything about EF1 in order to read and gain benefit of this book. Great effort spent on this book by the authors and the publisher. You’ll get a great value with reasonable amount of money compared to the information provided in this book.

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Last month, Friday 23rd April, I had a chance to present at Code Camp Reloaded event hold at Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University in Cairo.

My presentation was about Exploring Design Patterns. I gave a general introduction about what’s design patterns and why they exist.

In this session I talked about different Design Patterns categories and explored 2 interesting design patterns:

• Decorator as example of structural patterns
• Strategy as example of behavioral patterns.

I also demonstrated the 2 patterns and showed examples from within .Net framework itself where these 2 patters are applied and used.

I uploaded code samples and presentation to my skydrive

Download Exploring Design Patterns

Note: I uploaded all my sessions to skydrive, you can explore them here

TypeMock is holding its first TypeMock Academy on 27th April 2010 on Oslo, Norway. So are you interested in unit testing?! If you are, and you are software developer or consultant join them on this very first academy.

You can expect to see the following TypeMock experts while being there:

• Eli Lopian
• Roy Osherove http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/
• Vagif Abilov
• Gil Zilberfield
• And more…

Along with very special appearance and very special guest Uncle Bob Martin

You can find more details on the Typemock site.

During the Academy Typemock will also release their new Test Lint VS 2010 RTM. You can try out the beta of Test Lint for free now: http://site.typemock.com/test-lint/

Facebook RSVP.

I thought to bring your attention about uCertify’s Spring Sale. Currently, uCertify is celebrating and welcoming spring with a Spring Sale. uCertify is offering a 20% discount on all Prepkits. A user can select from extensive selection of over 200 PrepKits to help prepare for their IT certification exam(s).

Duration of Sale: Monday, April 8, 2010 and ends on April 20, 2010.

To avail sale price: Type SPRING as the discount code during checkout

Full details of the sale can be found at: http://www.ucertify.com/blog/celebrate-your-spring-with-ucertifys-spring-sale.html

About uCertify

Founded in 1996, uCertify is a leading provider of exam preparation solutions for IT certifications from leading vendors such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Sun Java, Oracle, CIW, Adobe and Cisco. They are committed to help their clients to pass their certification exams by providing the highest quality preparation software. uCertify has devoted much of its resources in Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) research. Through continuous research and development, our products are designed and updated to cater to the needs of changing technology. uCertify PrepKits replicate the actual online exams, and help you experience the real exam environment. This gives you the confidence to pass your certification exams in the first attempt.

uCertify is committed to serving its customers with innovative, reliable, and high-quality products through continuous research and development, keeping in mind the trends and changes for each certification exam. As you know that uCertify also backs its entire range of PrepKits with a 100% pass guarantee. In the unlikely event, if a user do not pass your exam in the first attempt, uCertify refunds the entire amount - no questions asked! It's the best guarantee in the business!

Last month (March 2009)  HOLs for Enterprise Library 4.1 released. Earlier this year there were HOLs released for Validation Application Block 4.1, now a full HOLs is released for the entire Enterprise Library.

Hands-on Labs walk you through the key usage scenarios of the application blocks in in various application contexts. You can practice the labs from start to finish or you can use the starter solutions provided to complete only the labs you want to, in the order you prefer.

• Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 3.5 (v4.1) Hands On Labs
• Unity Application Block (1.2) Hands On Labs
• Validation Application Block (4.1) Hands On Labs

Information about the book:

Book Title: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design
Book's Page: http://www.packtpub.com/application-architecture-and-design-for-asp-.net-3.5/book
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Chapters: 9
Publisher: PACKT Publishing
Author: Vivek Thakur

Introduction:

Microsoft ASP.NET has quickly evolved to become one of the most famous platforms for developing web-based solutions. Since its first release with .Net 1.0, Microsoft has continuously added many out-of-the-box features and components, making web development easier for the end developer. As ASP.NET is part of the whole .Net Framework, it is gaining benefits of all features and technologies provided by the .Net Framework itself. With the introduction of LINQ, MS AJAX, WCF, WPF, and a lot of exciting new tools, the .NET framework has not only grown large but also flexible, in terms of the choices and options being offered to the developers.

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Before completing one year of running this blog, I celebrate the last month of the first year of this blog by deploying my new theme create by JankoAtWrapSpeed.com. Thank you Janko.

Actually Janko created a lovely themes pack for BlogEngine.Net. He branded MosesOfEgypt.Net with his piece art theme. I like the dark theme especially that man standing front of the moon, I think Janko has a vision about it

Any way I hope you all like the new theme as I do.