{"id":35,"date":"2008-12-15T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:36:49","slug":"money_for_nothing_and_your_learning_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Money for nothing and your learning for free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Disclaimer: Though the title may suggest it, this post has no information about gaining money for nothing; only learning for free. If you have a fool-proof way of getting money for nothing, please add it as a comment.]<\/p>\n<p>You may already know that Microsoft have compiled a huge collection of self-paced learning materials at the <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.microsoft.com\">Microsoft Learning<\/a> site. What you might not know, is that they regularly publish courses for everyone&#8217;s favourite price &#8211; FREE!<\/p>\n<p>These free courses and clinics are usually introducing new features in new versions of products, or giving giving overviews rather than digging into deep technical detail, but a lot of the time that may be just what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of free content that are currently available are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoftelearning.com\/eLearning\/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=106546\">Database Fundamentals in Microsoft SQL Server 2008<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoftelearning.com\/eLearning\/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=216481\">Introducing Windows Server 2008<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoftelearning.com\/eLearning\/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=77681\">ASP.NET for PHP Developers: Introduction to ASP.NET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They handily provide a <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.microsoft.com\/Manager\/Catalog.aspx?view=free\">catalogue of free products<\/a>, which I suggest you have a look at. If you want to take up one of the free offers, you don&#8217;t have to complete the course right away; typically you just activate a subscription to the content, which may give you access to it for 3, 6 or 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Happy learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Disclaimer: Though the title may suggest it, this post has no information about gaining money for nothing; only learning for free. If you have a fool-proof way of getting money for nothing, please add it as a comment.] You may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=35\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iis","category-software","category-sql","category-windowsserver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}