Didn’t get as much done this week as I’d hoped, but a little luck balanced that out! I do at least a weekly call with Kendal Van Dyke (leader of SQLSaturday Orlando this year) to keep him informed and brainstorm and as of my last update we were still not there on the event flyer, […]
Read more "Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 17"I was catching up on reading the minutes of PASS Board meetings and found the following except in paragraph 2 of the April 2014 minutes, highlighting is mine – use this link to read the entirety: Tim Ford questioned if the schedule is thought to be reasonable considering the amount of information that has to […]
Read more "5300 PASS Voters for 2014 Election"Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, a day worth remembering and celebrating to be sure. I like that we do so, and that we have Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day too. My grandfather served in the Navy in WW2, my father was drafted and in post-war Korea, and I served 8 years in the […]
Read more "D-Day, Family, Vets, and Life"Interesting day yesterday. A spirited discussion on Twitter, a challenging post from candidate Mark Broadbent, and a couple good threads on the NomCom discussion forum. I’ve picked some of the points where I want to add a few notes of my own (I’m not speaking for PASS on any of these, and in most cases […]
Read more "Miscellaneous Notes on the PASS NomCom and General Election"If you haven’t noticed by now I’ve been writing quite a few questions of the day for SQLServerCentral. It started, as things often do, as just something to do that was different (before this year, my last one was in 2006!) but it’s grown beyond that. It’s a really interesting short form of writing and […]
Read more "A Sherlockian Question Of the Day & Why I’m Writing Questions"Access Granted or Not? is my latest Question Of The Day and I think it represents a pretty good troubleshooting scenario, a user can connect to one database but not another using the same Windows credentials. It’s one of those questions generated from a learning moment of my own, I had to figure out the […]
Read more "Access Granted or Not? Question of the Day"I was interested to see that the online voting system has changed this year to one powered by Simply Voting. I’m only a lit bit sad to see the old system retired – I wrote it in about 3 hours way back when, because we needed something and it was, barely, good enough to get […]
Read more "I Voted For the 2014 PASS NomCom"I haven’t posted much on books lately, here are two that are different: Inside the Food Network. Definitely some gossip, but also a look at how businesses evolve and how the people that made them in the beginning couldn’t keep up with that evolution. A common problem/pattern. Bobby Flay seems to have been the most […]
Read more "Recent Reading: The Food Network, And The White House!"I submitted my application for the NomCom on May 21 and after the review process we’re now in “campaign week”. This will probably be the only statement for my campaign and I want to cover a few different things; why I’m running, how I’ll approach the task if elected, and why the NomCom is a […]
Read more "I’m A Candidate For the PASS 2014 Nominating Committee"As you can see my third attempt on Fiverr didn’t work out great. I asked for something bold/high contrast and this doesn’t quite get there, at least in a fashion I want to use. The name is mangled and the date seems more important than the “what”. The one thing I do like about it […]
Read more "Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 16"
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