Certification

I'm nearing the end of my MCAD certifcation. All I have left now is the third test, 70-320, Developing XML Web Services and Server Components. It's half in my domain, and half out. Web services, SOAP in - system services and remoting out. Though remoting does sound exciting. I read the MOC book on this test, and did the chat application remoting lab. it was really cool to see the text appear on the other computer as I typed. All about those call backs!

Now, the 70-320 test is this Monday, and I will be cramming this weekend. I've taken a fair amout of practice tests, and I'm currently sitting in a Barnes and Noble with a fat stack of study questions. But I'm tired, and anxious about the whole thing. I did make a smart call and got a berry iced tea instead of a drink with some serious caffeine.

I've been learning lots of interesting things though. Like, I can apply a SoapDocuentMethod attribute with a OneWay property of true to a webmethod that returns void and it will automatically be marked asynchronous. Crazy. It's too bad that the client always calling my webservices are from flash.

There are some worthless things though. Like UDDI. Sure, someone can make a case. But, I'll have to keep believing that this idea of service hubs is dead. It hasn't, nor will it happen anytime soon. Do I really need to know that the tModel element is used in a discovery document