I'm currently running through the CD-ROM based courseware for the Sun Certified Java Associate exam. Thought it would be a good idea to get a Java cert under my belt - interesting to see the little differences between Java and C#. (string literal equality comparisons, anyone?)

I did have a problem trying to access the Flash-based courseware in IE7 though - it loaded the index page and I could choose a module, but then when it loaded it just showed an empty window. Tried all the flash perms etc., got latest Flash version, nothing helped.

However, when I ran the CD-ROM under Firefox it ran first time and works perfectly. Maybe there's a subliminal message there, I don't know, but as long as it runs I can live with it in Firefox :)

If you ever find the need to suppress the ViewState hidden field in ASP.NET, you're in for a world of pain :)  There are various blog posts that discuss the issue but none give clean and easy server-side solutions - that is unless you really want to take over the http stream and start tag stripping.

There is a very quick and admittedly dirty client-side way of doing it in DHTML:

<script language="javascript">
 document.getElementById('__VIEWSTATE').parentNode.removeChild(document.getElementById('__VIEWSTATE'));
</script>

Yes I know. Yuk. Works in IE6/7 and Firefox tho!

If you find that your EPiServer subscriptions stop firing after an export/import, you may need to reset the root node for the subscription. Typically, your subscription history will show '0 subscription templates found'. To fix this, go to your subscription template, set your root node, save and publish.

This is especially true if you have reset your start page to a value other than 3.

Well the cram fest paid off - now the MCTS in config. and admin. of MOSS 2007 is under my belt too.

Now to put this into practice, but before that I have to tie off an EPiServer project and also get stuck into an ADXSTUDIO one!

So the cram-fest that I blogged about a few weeks ago has come around, and the last couple of days+nights swotting have paid off with an MCTS in Configuring WSS v3.

Now there's another few days of intensive, 14 hour days and then I'll be going for the Sharepoint Server equivalent as well.

Here's to reading thick tomes!