<r>I don't work for Microsoft, and this isn't meant as a plug, but I thought people might be interested to know that MS have re-launched their certification programsAnyone care to comment ? (constructively if possible !)<URL url="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/newgen/">http://www.microsoft.co...

<t>The idea of paying US$200 to this firm sounds an awful lot like various other schemes out there which are not always what they claim.What do they mean by a "trading position" ? It is unlikely to be a job at a bank - who would want to commit to hiring someone based on whether they paid some money ...

<r>MS moved MCAD + MCSD from C++ to being soledly VB.Net or C#.Net based 15 months ago (you get to choose which language you do it in - make it C#)MFC being a possible module in MCAD / MCSD was dropped by MS almost 5 years agohttp://<URL url="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/examsre...

Used it around 2000-2001 to do some stats within Excel for workIf you can get it for a reasonable price (under $100), it's definitely worth having - has got all kinds of useful stats and graphing tools in it

<t>The 2nd beta edition of each came out earlier this summer. I understand that Beta 1 of VS 2005 had lots of unexpected anomalies in it, many but not all of which seem to have been fixed in Beta 2. Has anyone had a chance to play around properly with either of these tools, and come up with any sort...

Have a look at the firm's website www.rothschild.com and make a judgment from what's there...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: AlphaNumericusQuoteOriginally posted by: samudraBut there NY office is good particularly the cafeteria.If you have a Bloombegr terminal - type 'BU <go>' (Bloomberg University) then search for 'lifestyle' events. They used to have them more often - now only a whiskey tas...

<t>Before I say anything, I admit that this is not the sexiest ot subjects, but...There seems to be at least half a dozen source code control applications which are considered vaguely mainstream - I won't even begin to guess how many "niche" variants exist out there.Is there any one which seems to d...

Books on Excel ?f you want the cookies on the top shelf, look for stuff by John Walkenbach

<r>I haven't done any functional programming since 1994, so have to admit I may be a little out-of-date, but the impression I got was that while it's quite good whenever you need a proof of program correctness - particularly in safety critical applications (like what to do when a nuclear power plant...

There's some way of using the Bloomberg API from VBA (probably also the C/C++ API as well, but don't know for certain), or requesting a screen scrape, and then importing it as text into something like Excel. Details should be somewhere in the API documentation - see BBXL for more info

<t>I presume that OIS in this context means overnight index swap.Dollar-OIS (is it called Donia, or am I just making this and Eonia (EUR) are both liquid. Sonia (GBP) isn't too bad.I know you can get Eonia on Reuters - can't remember the right page, but ICAP10 might be a good starting point - there ...

<t>When people talk about "outsourcing to India", it's important to separate 2 concepts.One is the idea that you devolve a function that is deemed non-core and fulfilled by people working for you, to people working for a different company (although transferring your staff to another company is how i...

<t>I've seen various training vendors, mainly in the US but some also in the UK, offering 7-day courses (admittedly 18+ hours per day) which claim to get you Microsoft certified (MCAD) in .Net in either VB or C# at the endConversely, QA Training (based in the UK) want about 5 weeks of time to teach ...

<t>BBG have 2 related products which go by the name of "Back Office" and "Per Security Request".These allow you to (legally!) harvest large amounts of data from the BBG database - e.g. static data on all bonds that BBG currently hold in bulk, and then move it to a database which can be accessed by a...