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Last week, while investigating my options into my re-entry into the job market, I signed up for a Jobstreet's Industry Nites - The Software Industry - “The Software Industry - The Developer's Community......your roadmap to being a Professional Developer”.

I turned up for the talk at 7.30pm, half an hour late, since I couldn't find the place. The speaker was Mr Lim Beng Cheong, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Singapore.

The talk turned out to be a way of Microsoft advertising their product, and spreading more myths about .NET, and Visual Studio. That, it being the only language on the market that can do managed code and unsafe code together.

The speaker also demonstrated and showed how to develop Web Services with Microsoft's Visual Studio. Of course, what he showed wasn't new, since several IDEs on the market were able to do Web Services a few years ago. He also talked about how he did his recruitment exercises, by eliminating those applicants without MCSE, MCAD, or MCDBA credentials. Of course, he failed to point out that it is extremely easy for one to certified MC whatever certifications. I got my MCSE in 7 weeks. One week for each exam. However, I had years of experience running a data center.

In any case, Jobstreet and Microsoft's tie up was quite strategic, and smart. There was some personnel from some training institutute giving out vouchers, or application forms for signing up for MCSE, MCAD etc, courses. Microsoft promotes it's IDE, the training institute promotes it's products, and so on.