Orlando Code Camp – March 27, 2010

I’ll be attending and speaking at the Orlando Code Camp on March 27, 2010 at Seminole State College along with Kendal Van Dyke, plus SQL sessions from Adam Jorgensen, Plamen Ratchev, Wes Dumey, and Sean Chambers. It’s always a good event, and I enjoy the chance to sit in on a couple .Net sessions to […]

PASS Update #25 (Summit Location and More)

By now you’ve probably seen the official announcement from PASS about the Summit being located in Seattle for both 2011 and 2012, along with preliminary plans to host an event of some type on the East coast in the spring of 2011. There’s been a lot of good discussion on it, much of which you […]

The Name Game

I’m in charge of networking and social time for oPASS and I do what I can to help get our members (old and new) get better at networking while at our user group meetings. In the past we’ve done introductions and games and discussion about networking. Worth doing, and effective to a point. This month […]

Help Us Update the PASS Blog Directory

We put this together last year and we’re up to 270 blogs listed, but I’m sure we’re still missing some, and some have changed names (including my own). If you’re a blogger, take a minute to check that we have the right information. And if you’re a blog reader (surely you are!), grab our OPML […]

Buying a Second Seat on the Plane

Saw this article about more elbow room, the premise being that is it is often cheaper to buy a second seat than it is to move to business or first class. Strangely, some airlines don’t let you do this, and almost all of them don’t make it obvious that you can do it. Which, being […]

Notes from SQLSaturday #33

I did the relatively quick flight to Charlotte on Friday afternoon, arriving just before 2 pm, grabbed lunch to go from a bbq place in the food court and waited for the hotel shuttle. About a 20 minute wait, not much more than the time it would have taken to go through the rental car […]

Going to Charlotte for SQLSaturday #33

I’m flying up Friday afternoon for SQLSaturday #33. Looking forward to the trip, Charlotte is a great area and I know a lot of the speakers presenting this time, so the Friday night get together should be a lot of fun. This will be more of a working trip than usual, Blythe Morrow from PASS […]

PASS Update #24

Time to update you again on all things PASS. First, I haven’t made a lot of progress on the speaker bureau. Rushabh supports the plan to build what we need and I’ve sent an outline to the Board for comment (one received so far), and I’m waiting on results of the survey that went out […]

Schedule for SQLSaturday #33

Final schedule for the Charlotte event and it is impressive – 9 tracks, 54 sessions!

SQLSaturday #44!

Andrew Karcher and Marlon Ribunal are heading up SQLSaturday #44 scheduled for April 24, 2010 at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA. It’s definitely an aggressive schedule, but they have the date locked in and a good plan. This is our first SQLSaturday in California and the first one set up since the transfer […]

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