For the Thursday I had nothing planned for learning, since I spent my night watching Perseids out of the city.

Knowledge Evaluations is very close, so I just reviewed all of the items I should know for it.

To lot leave this post empty, I decided to write at least about something. I feel, that I still have some weak areas like Networking. But it turns our that for .NET Desktop Profile, I need only basic knowledge of it, like understanding networking itself, application layer protocols, IP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, and so on and so forth. So for my luck I have basic ideas how all of that works and glues the world together.

Networking

We often use these abbreviations, but do we always know what they mean?

local area network (LAN)
wide area network (WAN)
metropolitan area network (MAN)
personal area network (PAN)
virtual private network (VPN)
campus area network (CAN)
storage area network (SAN)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) 
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
… what more??

In the evening there will be post about how KE went and what are outcomes.

P.S. I feel myself very nervously at the moment…