Archives » January, 2008

One down, four to go…

I took and passed the 70-536 yesterday. I have to admit that it was one of the more stressful tests as far as preparation is concern. Not because of the complexity or breadth of the topics, although that was pretty tough. The problem I had was all the reviews I read about [...]

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__doPostBack not available?

In trying to implement some new functionality to our product, I came across the need to create a postback myself through javascript. This is not new to our application, so I used a similar javascript function to prompt the user and fire a postback if required. However, I was getting some javascript null [...]

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Fedora 6 to Fedora 8 Upgrade

Two things prompted my recent decision to upgrade the server from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8:

I was researching Linux distros for an old Pentium I have and came across this page, which provides a pretty comprehensive guide to upgrading your Fedora builds using Yum, as opposed to uninstall/reinstall
It’s freakin’ freezing outside, what else am [...]

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Why are exams with numbers always hell?

I’m currently studying for my MCTS 70-536 exam, which I’m taking at the end of the month. I understand the concepts, but their testing is ridiculously exact. It’s not that I don’t want to know how to use the classes in the .Net Framework, but it escapes me as to why I need [...]

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