This looks good. The Open University is to deploy Moodle to host its online learning environment. Hopefully, as this is open source, it’ll be platform agnostic and will work fully with Macintosh, and Linux, clients. Press release here.
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Items related to IT and computing in general
Doing Presentations? Keep it simple!
I’m a great fan of minimalist slides when doing presentations. Just found a really nice weblog that covers this area called Presentation Zen. Lots of good advice and links.
Video Interview with Bill Gates
This is actually from September of this year but I’ve just found it. Interesting MSDN Channel 9 video interview with Bill Gates. He has some interesting things to say. The comparison of software development and biology as two hot areas for geeks is something I’d agree with.
Microsoft Certified Architect certification
Microsoft have introduced a few new certifications. They are outlined at the certification page. The Microsoft Certified Architect one looks quite rigorous. There are currently 2 tracks; Solutions Architect, which looks developer orientated, and Infrastructure Architect, which looks to be more more platform focused on servers, networks and delivery. it also looks like these new certifications will be hard to get. Good. The last thing we need is another raft of certifications that give us architectural equivalents of the famous paper MCSE’s.
The Q&A section at the Microsoft Certified Architect certification website is interesting reading. Looks like only about 25% of the required knowledge will be based on Microsoft technologies. From the web site:
Q. Does the certification cover only Microsoft Technologies?
Q. What competencies will the program address?
A. t the present time, it is expected that only about a quarter of the emphasis of a candidate’s knowledge will be on Microsoft-related architecture technologies; the rest will relate to general architecture principles and best practices that aren’t Microsoft specific. A candidate for the program will have to have a broad-based knowledge that extends well beyond Microsoft technologies. In addition, the non-technical skills domain that candidates will face throughout the process will be broad, including such knowledge areas as project management, decision-making, strategic thinking, and oral and verbal communication.
That looks very encouraging. Hopefully this’ll be a worthwhile programme that helps raise the level of professionalism in the IT industry.