I saw this sign recently, which at first glance is unremarkable, but I couldn’t help be amused at the inclusion of “vessels”. I’m in Florida so I suppose someone parking their boat on a trailer in the parking lot isn’t impossible, but somehow that doesn’t seem big enough to really merit being called a vessel […]
Read more "Don’t Park Your Vessel Here"One of the weaknesses of the current SQLSaturday tool set is that the front page isn’t strong by default. It does a lot of good work, but it’s not what I’d call great (and wow, is it better than v1 and v2!), but it does offset that weakness by allowing you to put in whatever […]
Read more "Look At The SQLSaturday Orlando Home Page"Number 8! Our eight annual SQLSaturday in Orlando is coming up on September 27th (note, it’s technically our tenth, but my friend Kendal Van Dyke says that #3 & #4 – the ‘tweener’ weekend – shouldn’t count!). Either way, I’m excited that it’s time to start the planning and the work for the event later […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #318 in Orlando on September 27, 2014"I use Pocket for saving some stuff. It works well from Feedly when I see something I know I’ll want to look at again (or just later). I’m sure I don’t use it as much as I should or could, but I’m strangely slow to adopt tools sometimes – it will become natural and work […]
Read more "Pocket's Most Popular"The role of PASS in the community has evolved a lot over the past few years. Back in 2006/2007 PASS was mainly about the Summit and trying to grow new chapters, not a lot of emphasis on doing more for chapters and not much interest in a day based event like SQLSaturday. In those days […]
Read more "PASS, Evangelism, Goals, Dreams"The first sign of spring in Florida is the leaves falling from the oak trees. Tons of leaves, leaves everywhere, definitely a pain to keep up with, yet it’s worth it for the next part – in the next week or so I expect – when the large oak in my front yard puts on […]
Read more "Spring in Florida"Have you ever voted against something only to be glad later you got out voted? Too many years ago the idea of a question of the day for SQLServerCentral came up for discussion. I was against the idea not because it was a bad idea, but because it is one more thing to do every […]
Read more "Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day)"Speaker dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse was packed. Great crowd, not such great service. At 8:45 pm we still had not had a chance to order dinner. With a crowd of 40+ its challenging to get a good venue that can handle the service and provide an environment conducive to networking. Event leaders, think hard about […]
Read more "Notes From SQLSaturday #273"Here’s a list of free presentation software I ran across, maybe worth a few minutes to get out of the Powerpoint rut. Emaze looks very interesting, as does SlideDog. Prezi is a lot of fun to watch.
Read more "Free Presentation Software"I’m looking forward to the trip to Tampa for SQLSaturday #273 this weekend. I’m driving down this afternoon to beat traffic and have time for a break before going to the speaker party. I have one presentation on the schedule – PCI for the SQL DBA – and the rest of the day will be […]
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