Friday (Dec 20, 2013) the Google Doodle was a crossword puzzle. I was curious so I clicked and yes, it was a full puzzle. It’s been years since I did a crossword. I did them for many years on Sunday, kind of a family tradition, but stopped somewhere along the way – I think it […]
Read more "Google IQ Test"Last week I had one of those days when I read something and then heard someone talking about the same thing – in this case the dual reference as about NFC tags. NFC stands for near field communication and is built into some smart phones as a way to interact with the ‘tag’. That lead […]
Read more "NFC Tags-Fun, And Maybe Useful at SQLSaturday"For those that attended the webcast I did last week for Idera the companion whitepaper is now available for download. You can view the recording and/or get the whitepaper by just entering basic contact information. Also, one of the things I mentioned in the webcast but omitted from the slides was Chocolately.org – it’s a […]
Read more "First Week As The DBA Whitepaper Published"Today I ran through the first tutorial at Code.org. It has 20 very short lessons that use Angry Birds and zombies to teach the very basics of programming – instructions, loops, and conditionals. It was very well done, a nice UI supplemented with some short and interesting videos as you progress. Tonight I asked my […]
Read more "Learn To Code"Today at 3 pm EST I’m presenting Surviving The First Week As The New DBA. Some of the topics I’m going to discuss are: About the goals you should set for your first week on a new job as a DBA Why backups & free space are the most important things to take care of […]
Read more "Webcast Today: Surviving The First Week As The New DBA"The Abilene Paradox by Jerry Harvey is not a new book, written in 1988. It’s part of some reading I’m doing for a project. The book is about management and is a series of stories/essays. It’s not a book I’d recommend to a first time or first level manager, but for all that it had […]
Read more "Review: The Abilene Paradox"Have you ever been told that it’s ok to fail? Did it ever feel like it was really ok to fail? Are you ok with other people trying and failing? Or do we look at them and think, they didn’t try hard enough, they didn’t ask the right questions, I would have done x, or […]
Read more "The World Needs More A/B Testing"The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun is about a former manager/now speaker and writer going to work for WordPress for a year. It was a must-read for me; I’m a fan of the authors writing as well as WordPress. It’s supposed to about the future of work and maybe it is, but I think […]
Read more "Review: The Year Without Pants"Back in September I wrote the first version of Skills I Used Last Week, so I thought I’d loop back to see if I was doing anything new lately. The window is really the last few weeks, but I thought I’d stick with the title for now, for continuity! Mostly it’s the same same as […]
Read more "Skills I Used Last Week #2"I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA today at 1 pm EST for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter. Depending on where you live you can take an early, on time, or late lunch to join me for an hour. It’s an interesting topic!
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