New Microsoft Developer exams coming soon.

Microsoft Learning is building a new "hands-on" performance evaluation for developer exams.  Testers, anticipated to be MCTS candidates, will logon to a Virtual Machine and complete a set of tasks.  The end-state of the solution (not the code) will be measured; thus, a tester could switch between various languages and scripting methods to complete a task.  A link to a webinar demo should be expected shortly.

These exams are expected to appear around 2011.

List of SharePoint 2010 Training Videos

Following is a list of SharePoint 2010 videos from simple to complex...

Introduction to SharePoint

Videos, microsoft sharepoint:
Very high-end, introductory.

Learning Snacks, microsoft learning:
Introductory, What's new.

E-Learning Clinics, microsoft learning:
Free two-hour clinics, one for Developers, one for IT Pros.

OData

As of April 13th, 2010, Microsoft has created a new site dedicated to OData. What is OData? OData is a web-centric method of producing and consuming data. Using it, we can syndicate data from databases, file systems, websites and XML.

OData uses HTTP, XML/ATOM, RSS and JSON to communicate, and it is compatible with the Google Data API.

Why do we care? OData is built-in to SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot for Excel 2010, SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and Azure. Client Libraries have been published for .NET, EcmaScript and PHP.