Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Download Microsoft’s Learning Center “Snacks”

Use the “Video Snack Downloader” to download all of the Microsoft Learning “Snack” Videos to your local machine! Video Snack Downloader is a small, open source application for discovering the videos available on the Microsoft Learning “Snacks” website and downloading them to your local machine for offline viewing.


LINQ in Action

All levels of Microsoft developers can benefit from reading Manning’s LINQ in Action. LINQ is a fundamental skill that will be required as more and more products and APIs embrace it, like LINQ to SharePoint, which is being shipped as “LINQ for SharePoint” within SharePoint 2010. As an experienced developer, I felt the book [...]


The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

I had finished 80% of this book nearly 7 years ago and not finishing vexed me for another 4 years until I made it a priority. There is already a great deal of content surrounding this book’s success, so I will not bore you with something you can read elsewhere. My main point in [...]


Beta 2: .NET 4, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010

Update 2009-11-30: What’s New in the .NET Framework Version 4
Released yesterday to MSDN subscribers and to the general public tomorrow… WOW! Read the updates on MSDN documentation for this release and you will be blown away. The number of features is tremendous.


Using Windows 7 Daily

My very first experience on a Sogeti USA laptop was with Windows 7. Since then, I’ve grown accustomed to its many productivity enhancements over Vista and XP; so much so, that I was considering posting a short video tutorial describing the great features I’ve been enjoying. I am much, much happier with 7 than I was with Vista. Well, Microsoft has [...]