{"id":1260,"date":"2004-08-06T23:36:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1260.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"august-is-training-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/08\/06\/august-is-training-month\/","title":{"rendered":"August is training month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Microsoft exam 70-320 (&#8220;Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework&#8221;) this morning, and passed.  Not a difficult exam, as these things go.  As usual, I went into it worrying I was under-prepared, and came out of it thinking that I&#8217;d spent way <em>too much<\/em> time studying for it.  Meh.<\/p>\n<p>This August is going to be a training month for me.  My last contract finished at the end of July, and I have a new one lined up for the start of September.  As well as this morning&#8217;s exam, I&#8217;ve got two more scheduled for the week after next:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/exams\/70-229.asp\">70-229<\/a> (SQL Server) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/exams\/70-316.asp\">70-316<\/a> (Winforms with C#).  Assuming I pass those, that will sort me out with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/mcp\/mcsd\/default.asp\">MCSD for .NET<\/a> certification.  That&#8217;s the main goal for the month.<\/p>\n<p>As well as that, I intend to get myself up to speed on <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmachine.com\/expressionengine\/\">ExpressionEngine<\/a>.  And now that I&#8217;ve got my MSDN Universal subscription up and running, it would be kind of groovy to start rocking on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/cmserver\/\">MCMS<\/a> install, too.  Content management, yeah baby!<\/p>\n<p>Not to forget all the work I still have to do here on Sunpig to get the new site design and structure finished.  Plus there&#8217;s a couple of friends&#8217; sites I have promised to sort out.  And I&#8217;ve got a nifty little Movable Type hack I need to write up.  And&#8230;and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that August is probably going to be busier than a normal month of work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I baked an apple pie this afternoon!  Mmmmmmmm&#8230;.Pie&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Microsoft exam 70-320 (&#8220;Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework&#8221;) this morning, and passed.  Not a difficult exam, as these things go.  As usual, I went into it worrying I was under-prepared, and came out of it thinking that I&#8217;d spent way <em>too much<\/em> time studying for it.  Meh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}