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Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)?
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Lenovo T61P!!!!
Okay do I have your attention now?
First off you have to be a current US Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and being willing to show off your rock star screencast skills. To enter you need to create a 5 – 10 minute screencast on IIS and PHP integration. The screencast must showcase the integration of PHP into IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008. I also want to see it actually work you should show an PHP application on the IIS server (i.e. Wordpress) running and demonstrated inside of Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and verified it is running inside of the IIS 7 environment.
Sound cool and techy and you want to enter? but your not sure how do all of that? Well I am here to help. Here are some excellent resources for you to get started:
The screencasts entries will be judged by a blue ribbon group of IT Pro superstars and will be judged on Creativity, Presentation, Inclusion of Microsoft Technologies and Effective demonstration of the integration of PHP in to IIS.
Here are the prizes:
So what do you have to do to enter?
Ladies and Gentlemen, If you are a Microsoft MVP we have a contest we hope you’ll find interesting. We’re
Not fair! Why do only developers get to play? How about an IT Pro contest?
Thanks!
Tom
Not Fair!Why this contest limited with US MVP.
I am a Chinese MVP,I also want to join!
This contest is blatantly UNFAIR. I am a Microsoft Project MVP. I am NOT a software developer, NOT a DBA, and not a network administrator. So I guess that eliminates me from a contest in which I might otherwise be a contender. :( No fair.
I am thinking about this one... but find it funny that others commenting here are ruling themselves out because they arent developers.
I thought being an MVP meant you were good with Microsoft technology and the technical community. Why not give it a look before you assume that developer skills are needed to compete...
The basis of the content for the content is TechNet content. If you are comfortable setting up Windows Server 2008 and the server roles, you can probably accomplish what is needed.
Installing PHP and a open source application like Wordpress is not a developer focused activity.
That should have read, "The basis of the content for the contest is TechNet content".
First there was this posting on Keith Combs Blog.  http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/10/09/we-are-giving-away-a-lenovo-thinkpad-t61p.aspx
As Chris Henley indicates in his post at http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/10/13/win-a-free-lenovo-thinkpad-t61p.aspx, you can use several tools to capture your demo.
Camtasia is a very popular tool but there are others on the Windows platform as well as the OS X platform (in case you are using Fusion or Parallels).
  My coworkers Keith Combs and Matt Hester are running a contest. On Keith's blog you will find:
My team mates, Keith Combs and Matt Hester, are holding a little contest for MVPs.  This is only
Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB? Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable
Hey all you MVP rockstars are you out there?  Are you working hard on putting together your screencasts
Allow me to play grammar police, or at least HOPE that I am playing grammar police.
Is the use of wordpress a requirement? Because php application (i.e. wordpress) makes it sound like wordpress is the required php application. i.e. is Latin for "id est" which means "it is". It is used in place of "in other words"
I'm hoping you meant to use e.g. instead of i.e. e.g. is Latin for "exempli gratis" which means "for the sake of an example" or just "for example".
So is the meaning intended to say "a PHP application running on the server, that is wordpress." or is the meaning intended to say "a PHP application running on the server, for example, wordpress."
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j
Trying to give an example of an application, and you are playing grammar police. However, I have always used i.e. as to mean an example.