Microsoft Teams, the latest addition to Office 365, that makes it easier for you to chat in groups, socialize, and collaborate

Introduced yesterday... Microsoft Teams, the latest addition to Office 365, that makes it easier for you to chat in groups, socialize, and collaborate. This may really have a coolness factor!

Microsoft Teams is available now in beta form. Microsoft expects the first general release to take place in 2017, Q1.

Some quick links here, for the moment...

https://products.office.com/en-US/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365/
Introducing Microsoft Teams (video)
Microsoft Teams: Step-by-step intro for using, enabling and managing the experience (video)
Three Easy Steps to Activate Microsoft Teams (video)
What is Microsoft Teams?
Setting up Microsoft Teams (preview) for development

Five new expert certifications from Microsoft, and the latest Microsoft Certification Roadmap

 Microsoft is streamlining its technical certifications, aligning to industry-recognized areas of competence while providing flexibility to showcase your specific skills on Microsoft products and services.

The five new expert certifications are:

1. MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
2. MCSE: Mobility
3. MCSE: Data Management and Analysis
4. MCSE: Productivity
5. MCSD: App Builder

See the scheme below.

Certification streams (https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/posts/microsoft-streamlines-technical-certifications)

More information
https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/posts/microsoft-streamlines-technical-certifications
https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/posts/announcing-open-registration-for-the-data-science-track-of-the-microsoft-professional-program-mpp
https://academy.microsoft.com/
Latest Microsoft Certification Roadmap: https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/certification/m/mediagallery/372292/download

Starting with AngularJS: a free online course from Google

Starting with AngularJS? There is a great free online course from Google.

You'll find the course at http://campus.codeschool.com/courses/shaping-up-with-angular-js

Fooling around with JavaScript scopes

JavaScript scopes can be confusing. In the demo below I've included some tests and examples for learning purposes.

C# Self tests...

There are a lot of learning resources to be found on the web. Below a few of them on C#:

C#

http://www.careerride.com/Csharp-net-practice-online-test.aspx
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_online_quiz.htm
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=c-skills-test
http://newtechusa.com/csharp-dotnet-quiz.asp
http://www.academictutorials.com/quiz.asp?id=65

Please see http://hansrontheweb.blogspot.nl/p/self-tests-from-others.html for self tests on other topics.

The Future of JavaScript: 2016 and Beyond (whitepaper)

An interesting whitepaper on the future of JavaScript, seen by developers.

See: THE FUTURE OF JAVASCRIPT—2016 AND BEYOND

Microsoft's cloud platform Azure: a short intro

For a short intro on Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, you can download a brief intro document (PDF) and view a demo video,

For the PDF, see Microsoft Azure handbook 101
For the video, see Azure Management Portal tour on Channel 9