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There was a giveaway where winners can choose what they want
That was great, but I failed to be fast enough 
Ooo nice giveaway. Well done to the winners and big up @dustinc
So, weekend plans. Are we seeing a big RN giveaway or is @dustinc taking the weekend off (well deserved if so)
Who else has plans for the weekend? What are your plans anything interesting?
n-th weekend in a row when I spend each free minute to read through MS courses. A month ago I passed Azure Administrator certification, now preping for Azure Solutions Architect.
Want to achieve that this year 
What are your plans? 
Well done.
I have many courses to catch up on but not got the time for that just yet.
My shop will be open for the weekend so I will be popping down to that to ensure everything is running okay. I modified the android based ePOS app this week so will be keeping an eye on that making sure it is all functioning okay.
Currently also learning Greek so will spend some time on that
It seams a lot of learning is happening right now...
@codelock is also preping for his exams 
Congrats on the Azure certification and progress. Keep it up!
I haven't done any of those yet. How did you find them - useful?
Yes, I saw he mentioned that. Good luck @codelock
Must be excellent career path then, congrats 👏
Well... I hate MS, but our company is required to have certified employees to keep MS Partner, so I am kind of forced to be the one that has to be in the list. I am System Architect here, I already have Oracle Enterprise Architect certificate since 4 or 5 years ago, I got OCI Architect this summer, and everything is basically out of experience. Preparation is only needed to get knowledge of all the terms that are used by provider (Oracle, MS, AWS) and capabilities of each, not to get to know something new.
Ha yea that's a good point. And impressive list of experience you have working with different systems. The learning doesn't stop for us IT folks!
In my opinion, certification should not be something, that you learn for to just pass the exam. Then the certificate is just a paper, that states that you "read about it". I think, that certification should be done to challenge yourself, to check how much YOU know and what else should YOU look into.
e.g. The Oracle Enterprise Architect, more exact, even in the title it says JAVA EE6, focuses on Java EE features. I have worked with EE like 10 or 15 years ago, I know the concepts, I just needed to check what is new in EE6, read a bit what they expect from me, and I prepared the project. In the last step, there were open questions, like "why did you choose that, or that"... My answers were like so: "the requirements were to use ***, but if there was no such requirement, I would use Spring Batch/Integration, etc...", since I use Spring environment a lot, my answers were more focused on that. That didn't lead to any point loss, I got I think 96% score overall...
Very true. It never seems to stop.
Interesting. I never had the need to get any certification as my learning has always been for my own personal use. I learn what I need to code with and then implement it.
Believe me, there are cases when employees come and say "look I have this cert, and that cert"... and when you see the results of them working, you understand, that these were only papers...
Education though is pretty much focussed on getting that bit of paper and really they only focus on what is required to get it.
My flashback when have to pursue MSCE certs for MSW2K ...
@MrEd Do this MS certification become invalid if you leave your employer? And you have to renew it every 2 years?
No. The certification is personal and you can link your work account, so company sees it. And you have to renew it every... 12 months... Not fun at all
Just doing it lol
did I miss anything ? I thingk not ok back to studying
That's free though isn't it?
Glad to hear ... ( that was ~rumor~ heard from course instructor )
Now, for every year? still around USD100?
Isn’t cert renewal open book exam? Recently renewed a few of them and it was too easy
Yes, I heard that renewal is free, but tis too early for me to renew mine, so don't know yet
Exams are 100Eur each, and renewal should be free
Well. I got 2 more today.
Order 8138209385
Please double my bandwidth. Thank you @dustinc !
Welcome to the party sir thanks for all the orders hope you enjoy your vps your bandwidth will be doubled soon
To the new page people let's go
100!