Well, with the new SQL Server, Visual Studio and Biztalk coming out in just a few weeks it’s no wonder that the marketing machine that is MS is hyping it’s new certification paths. As a MCSD I get newsletters and such for MCPs and the most recent was one about the new certifications. You check out the FAQ.
Rosa Parks died in the last few days. If you don’t know who this is then you clearly are not familiar enough with the civil rights movement in US History. In 1955 Rosa Parks did something pretty simple, yet incredibly amazing for the time. She got on a bus and sat up front. In 1995 the buses were segretated in Alabama, blacks in the back, whites up front and any black person had to give up their seat to a white.
I meant to post a reminder that CINNUG was meeting last night but forgot. Ben gave a great presentation on using Relfection to validate business entities. Using attributes he showed how to mark properties on a business entity to be validated in certain ways, for example a property that was required, or a property that had to match a certain regular expression to be valid. The business entities could then use these attributes in conjunction with some functionality on the base entity class to perform validations of the entities that could be called from any consuming code.