I'm with Scott, if your company expects you to have specific skills for them and you didn't walk through the door with those skills, then they need to provide you paid time to acquire them. But your time is your time. Learn what you want to help you further your career.

@nadnerB said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

@scottalanmiller said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

@JaredBusch said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

I guess they did not bail fast enough after it happened to ITT in the States.

People should have been paying attention. Anyone know this "school"? Was it like ITT?

I'm not sure about "like ITT" as I've no idea who they are other than they've been painted as pirates in academic gowns.

I've not had anything to do with them but going by the graduation % stats, I'm glad I didn't.

Those stats are much worse now!

@DustinB3403 said in OneNote - Share Across Devices - User rant:

OneNote locally to their hard drive, and then moan about their hard drive failing with OneNote saved locally.

huh, that's weird.. by default OneNote wants to make you put it on OneDrive (at least it used to) so making it be local would require extra work.

@JaredBusch said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

@scottalanmiller said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

@s.hackleman said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

I didn't get to make it up, but I have been watching the sessions and burning up my data plan. Thanks for posting these. I also wanted to take a minute to call out the guy sitting front and center to just surf the internet the entire time SAM is talking.

I didn't even notice that, I'm going to look for it now.

In the red? That is @DustinB3403

Ha no it is not!

slideshare = linkedin

@Danp said:

I don't know of any off hand, but I am involved with a NP that also works with the developmentally disabled. I can check with them to see what they are using if you would like.

Have you checked on techsoup.org to see if they offer anything that would fit your needs?

Thanks I would appreciate that. I use Techsoup regularly so I've seen what they offer. It's a good resource but I haven't seen anything mind blowing, not that it's required. I'm currently building a Raspberry Pi project that uses a capacitive sensing board to allow clients (verbal and non-verbal) to interact with different objects. When touched the Raspberry Pi will play an audio file that names what it is. This is an example of the types of projects I would be looking for. Even ideas would be great although take it easy, I'm new to Python.

@stus Thanks for popping in!

i really find an excellent course of CCNA, really awesome explanation ...
http://www.freeccnastudyguide.com/study-guides/ccna/
can anyone tell me whether it is the latest CCNA V5 or not ??
because they didn't mention the version

I don't know much about MS Dynamics CRM but I know from having used Dynamics GP (keep in mind while they share part of the name they are not the same products nor related at all aside from name) a lot there isn't much information as far as training on it either written or video. You really have to learn from yourself, other people and conferences.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I like PluralSight a bit.

I like it, I just think it's a little bit expensive for what it is, as it's really only supplemental material. you still need a book for the Cisco and MS certs and labs.

$29.95. Not horrible.

Thanks - I'm already taking three other classes over winter, we'll see if I actually have time to audit this one as well.

@StrongBad said:

That's not good. Bait and switch is a good way to burn your bridges.

RIght, it's only a 60 day trial too. So, not really free if you ask me. When I receive the sales call I will let you know.

Like MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL is a full RDBMS. It's a hard core enterprise system that goes after drop in replacement with Oracle DB. Pretty much any enterprise software using a database lets you select between PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server if not many more like MySQL, MariaDB, DB2, etc.

MySQL is focused on lightweight web applications so is tuned differently than the others. PostgreSQL is the new darling for enterprise app development. It's old but really good.

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