Few great deals from Microsoft!!

In the latest newsletter from Microsoft, they've provided links to some exciting resources. I would like to share them with those who haven't registered to that newsletter.

Microsoft Skills Assessment Home:
http://assessment.learning.microsoft.com/test/home.asp

Free e-book for Visual Basic.Net 2005 book:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/whidbey/introto2005/

ASP.Net online assessment and Free online books (Enter access code: 8317-MSDN-6595)
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/enterCode.aspx

Limited time Free online courses for Visual Studio.Net 2005
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005/

Limited time Free online courses for SQL Server 2005
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/sqlserver2005/

That's all for now folks! I guess there are many more to come. I promise that I will keep you posted. Remember that your words of encouragement keep me running.

Collection of Microsoft's RSS Feeds

It's a one-stop-shop for those who are looking for RSS feeds from Microsoft.
This page has all the links to RSS feeds for almost all of the Microsoft products. Go ahead, be latest!!

Lets talk Barcodes

While checking the IT Digest blog, I came across an online tool that allows any one to create a barcode. The author of above blog obtained a barcode for his name. Amused and intrigued by his thought, I wanted to give it a try. And here is my barcode. If you also want to give it a try, go to: IDAutomation.Com

History of Languages and Windows

How many computer languages can you name? 20? 50? 1000? There are a whopping 2500 languages identified so far!! Though they all aren't mentioned here, this is worthy of a look.
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#06

We all know the evolution of Windows since the commandline interface of DOS. Here is a the timeline of the evolution

http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.html#05