Ninth annual! Yes, Orlando Code Camp #9 this year, being held at Seminole State College on March 22, 2014. I’ve submitted a couple sessions and plan to attend whether I’m on the schedule or not. Call for speakers is open until January 15, so you’ve got just a few days to make up your mind. […]
Read more "Reminder: Orlando Code Camp on March 22, 2014"I get a lot of email about job opportunities, almost none of which interest me enough to call back about them. Which doesn’t mean that the next one won’t. I review the location and description in about 10 seconds, close to 100% of them then get deleted – not even close to a good fit. […]
Read more "Throwing Spaghetti At The Wall Isn’t The Worst Plan"Possibly as many as forty million credit cards used at Target were compromised. A staggering breach and a cautionary tale – anyone can get beat, even a mega corp with close to unlimited resources. My guess (no inside scoop) is that the Target IT team has had their world turned upside down –they failed (directly […]
Read more "Some Thoughts on the Target Breach"A quiet and rainy day here in Orlando today. Not my favorite weather, but good for thinking, mostly about what I what to accomplish in Q1. I also started on one of the smaller tasks on that list, getting the blog moved over to Windows Azure from Godaddy hosting – look for a post on […]
Read more "Welcome To 2014"Over the years when a performance problem comes up there is always some speculation that it’s a network issue and not the database (can’t be us!). I always ask a few quick questions to see if I can see a reason to pursue the network angle: Is the problem affecting multiple database servers? Is the […]
Read more "Sometimes It IS The Network"I learned something from you – that was something someone said to me at the end of a recent consulting engagement. I wasn’t teaching, just doing, so that it made it all the more interesting to hear. Part compliment, part acknowledgement, maybe even part surprise, regardless, it was a very nice thing to be told. […]
Read more "I Learned Something From You"I don’t bowl often, maybe once a year at best. It’s a fun way to spend a couple hours – I imagine many of you have done the same. Regardless of location they all seem about the same. Mostly quiet, not fancy, maybe even utilitarian in most ways. Food. Not great food, but good enough […]
Read more "Upscale Bowling"I live in a pleasant, calm, middle class neighborhood. Not much crime here, at most the rare break-in or vandalism, not a place where you worry about going out for a walk in the evening. Recently the HOA sent out a letter discussing the install of security cameras to increase security and that provoked some […]
Read more "Security Cameras in the Neighborhood"As I re-read the original Looking Back post I realized I didn’t include anything about the fear part – stepping away from an established career focus to do something else for a while. I’ve been a SQL guy for a long time, I started using SQL Server in 1998 and I was working with data […]
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