Technical News and tips from My learning

Today, our HR asked me about the Microsoft certification and the respective levels. I’ve tried to explain her, but as an old saying states, “a picture is worth of thousand words” (or) “Pictures speak louder than words”, it really worked well when I’ve given her the below picture. There is a short and sweet writeup from Microsoft site from this link , but she is more confused when I gave this link to her. In other words, if anyone writes a Microsoft exam would be awarded with MCP, ie., Microsoft Certified Professional. Then if the person writes any other exam that is related to the previous one, then they would be certified as MCTS, ie., Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist of respective combination of the papers.

I was reading some C# related stuff and came across of this post . I recollect that some time back I’ve written a post about coding guidelines. My post is more in the same lines that of Amazedsaint’s conclusion. But he did a decent work in collecting all the currently available coding standards guides into one location. After going thru all the documents, I came to a conclusion that all the documents are highlighting their major part in the naming conventions rather giving attention at the actual standards that matter for the effective coding. Every developer / expert writes about their experience in coding and convey that in certain situations, certain coding practices makes a big sense. Having reading all such posts and looking at the current collection by Amazedsaint, I now decided to collect such best practice posts and present them here. This is my next TODO.  Until such time, I start collecting, here is a sample post about Javascript SWITCH case and how it can be converted in