Logo Selected for SQLRally

Hopefully everyone saw the announcement already, either via the PASS Connector or the Twitter announcement, but we have – finally! – a logo: I think it’s pretty good and almost everything I hoped for; simple, clean, emphasis on SQLRally but still showing the PASS association. The one thing we didn’t get was the checkered flag, […]

Registration Open for 24 Hours of PASS

The ‘Summit Preview’ edition, this time around it features speakers from the upcoming PASS Summit with each doing a one hour presentation. This time instead of a continuous 24 hour stream, half will be delivered on Sep 15, 2010 and the other half on Sep 16, 2010. I think you’ll find it to be really […]

Begining Thoughts on a PASS Speaker Certification

Consider this one a thinking out loud post more than most. We’ve had an explosion of speakers in the SQL Server world over the past three years, and more arriving every day. That’s an unbelievably good thing for our community and our profession for a lot of reasons. Almost all do a passable or better […]

MS Lightswitch – Interesting?

MS just announced this publicly last week, it’s a Visual Studio product that seems to be geared towards the not-quite-developer market with a focus on rapid application development. Reminds me a lot of Access if you watch the keynote or demo videos, very fast to set up data binding. I noticed during the demo that […]

Volunteering Equals Karma, Not Cash

One of the things I think we don’t do well sometimes – in generally – is set fair expectations with regards to volunteers on both sides. As the occasional leader of efforts that involve volunteers, what I ask for first is communication and follow through. Skill, energy and all the rest are useful, but good […]

Reminder to Vote for the SQLRally Logo

Kendal Van Dyke blogged about it last week here, we ended up with 3 great designs to pick from for the new SQLRally event format (coming to Orlando in May 2011), all you have to do is help us pick the best one! Voting Link: http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally/LogoVote.aspx Which will look good on a web site? On […]

Notes on Mentoring

Being a good mentor is hard, perhaps harder than being a parent, because with children it’s fair to share with them all of your ideals. I’ve accrued some interesting life experiences and some interesting skills that give me my particular view point, but the goal isn’t to clone me or otherwise drive them to adopt […]

More Notes from SQLSaturday #40

In addition to being at at #40 as an attendee, I also had Don Gabor there to take a look at our networking efforts, presentation styles, and more, in part to help us do SQLSaturday better right now, in part so that he can join our SQLSaturday meeting at the PASS Summit this fall (Monday […]

Registration Open for SW Fla Code Camp on September 25, 2010

John Dunagan and team are once again leading their annual Code Camp on September 25, 2010 in Estero, FL (think Naples and you’re in the neighborhood). Somehow I’ve never made it to this one yet, in part due to the long drive from Orlando and in part to September just always seems busy for me, […]

Notes on SQLSaturday #40

Had a reasonably uneventful four drive to Miramar Friday, arriving in time to check in at the hotel and then leave again to pick up Don Gabor at the airport, then off to Panera for tea/coffee and chat, and then met up with Jack Corbett before we headed to the speaker dinner. The speaker dinner […]

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Month: August 2010