Just in case somebody needs is: Brainbench is giving away some certification tests for free. Including: .NET Framework Fundamentals ASP.NET C# Java 2 Fundamentals Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Java 5 Math Fundamentals Visual Basic.NET Fundamentals
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Beware that "Free certification tests do not include a hardcopy certificate, but are included in your online transcript."
Back in 1999 I had lots of Brainbench certificates. They were all free and so that was sort of cool game - they were keeping top list with high scores for each test and the goal was to be the first in that list. Dunno if Brainbench is still doing this but that sort of competition was really great idea.
I still own xsl.info and xpath.info domain names and still have no time to build anything around there. If anybody have any ideas about any community driven projects - let me know, I'm willing to donate domain name and may be participate. And if anybody want to buy these domain names
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.NET's XmlReader is a great XML parser, but it has one big flaw in its API: XmlReader doesn't expose attribute types. XML actually defines 8 attribute types: CDATA, ID, IDREF, IDREFS, ENTITY, ENTITIES, NMTOKEN, NMTOKENS. Yes, it's DTD, which apparently Microsoft considers to be dead, but ID, IDREF, IDREFS types
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Another coding horror story was reported in the microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup: I've been experiencing OutOfMemory errors on our prodution webserver for a few weeks now. I've finally managed to isolate (I think) the problem to our use of c# script blocks in our xsl files. While debugging I discovered that the app
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Joe Fawcett, XML expert and my fellow XML MVP has started a blog. Highly recommended. Subscribed.
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