This was the third SQLSaturday in South Florida and the third time I’ve attended, just too good an event to miss, especially towards the end of summer when it includes the chance to visit Ft Lauderdale beach for a while. I was in town early for the event for the PASS Board meeting, so the […]
Read more "Notes from SQLSaturday #79"We’re having a PASS Board meeting and many of us will be staying for the event on Saturday (and an annual event for me!). It’s a chance for us to meet members and for members to sit with us to talk about things. We’ll be at the PASS table and around most of the day. […]
Read more "Meet the PASS Board at SQLSaturday #79 In South Florida"We have a few changes in the election process for PASS this year, one of them is that we have a mini-election to seat the member portion of the NomCom. It’s a critical role, the NomCom applies the guidance from the Board to the interview process and in the end, they select the slate of […]
Read more "Seeking Volunteers for the Nomination Committee"The annual Code Camp is coming up on October 1st in Tallahassee and our local SQL group is trying to find speakers to set up a SQL track. If you live in the area, or just up for a weekend trip to learn and share, consider going.
Read more "Call for Speakers for the SQL Track at the Tallahassee Code Camp"Officially launched today, it’s been a project that took a while to bubble to the top, but we’ve done an upgrade to the logo and to the overall site layout. We “test drove” this with many of the event leaders first and so far a lot of positive feedback. If you see any quirks in […]
Read more "See the New Logo and Graphics for SQLSaturday"Just a few quick updates. First, on the SQLSaturday site we’ll be shortly rolling out an updated logo and layout for the public facing site. We’ve had the event leaders review the plan and while it wouldn’t be fair to see all agreed, we felt like we had a good consensus to move forward. We’ve […]
Read more "PASS Update #61"I’m going to ramble today. This is a complex topic and I think you’ll see by the end that I have some concerns but not necessarily the answers. None of this is new, but I think it’s worth looking at now that we’ve had some success. Back when I started doing the research that would […]
Read more "Money, Transparency, and Community Events"I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set the boundaries so that you demand diligence. Taking risks shouldn’t be on the level of buying lotto tickets or a roll of the dice. It’s got to be a shared risk, one that you may […]
Read more "Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2"Most of us learn more from mistakes than successes. We talk about taking risks, but what is the average response when you fail – not good, is it? We’re not trying to fail, to make mistakes, to disappoint the boss. Does intent matter? Sometimes. There are mistakes and then, there are, mistakes. You can’t have […]
Read more "Celebrating Mistakes-Part 1"I saw this write up about Cornell coming up with a way to detect fake online reviews with about 90% accuracy. It seems like a simpler problem than detecting spam, though I don’t know if that is true or not. It’s worth opening up the link to see a simple test, two reviews, read them […]
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