Web Site Tuning

I just spent a couple days doing some minor tuning on SQLShare and here are some notes from that effort. I already had a Google site map published, but it turns out there that is a separate format for videos I had totally missed. I think they already index the stuff pretty well, but it […]

Final Reminder – SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on Jan 23, 1010

I’ve had to cancel my plans to attend, which also included plans for a late lunch at the Green Iguana and some touristy time before the speaker get together. Tomorrow is the main event with a great schedule, and I’m pleased to see some speakers on the list I don’t know – good to see […]

Book Review: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

I read Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs ($18 @ Amazon) over the holiday break. Viesturs was the first American to summit all fourteen of the 8000 meter peaks in the world. In this book he looks at the various expeditions to K2, which he considers to be […]

Andy on Twitter

Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on some thoughts after having tried it off and on for a couple months. I went into it biased, thinking it made sense for events and situations where the ability to reach a group quickly made […]

The Architectural Journal

Somehow had completely missed this one, The Architectural Journal is published quarterly in PDF format. Issue 22 seems to be the latest, and here is what it shows in the table of contents: Foreword Data-Warehouse Principles for Supporting Enterprise-Enabled BI Applications BI-to-LOB Integration: Closing the Cycle Increasing Productivity by Empowering Business Users with Self-Serve BI […]

Collaboration Patterns – Part 2

Recently I caught a few minutes of a CSPAN interview with Chief Justice John Roberts, part of a larger presentation on the Supreme Court (sorry, I could not find a link to it) that talked about how they handle deciding cases. At some point after oral arguments they convene in a meeting room where only […]

Collaboration Patterns – Part 1

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to be more effective at collaborating, usually in the context of a meeting. The line blurs for me there, because partly I think it’s just a meeting issue – but let me share and then see what you think. Let me start with an example. Recently I […]

Notes on the January 2010 oPASS Meeting (Live Meeting)

Before you dig in this post, take a look at my earlier notes about oPASS and Live Meeting and the great after meeting write up from Jack Corbett. Just in case you didn’t read those, the short story is that we had a remote presenter and to try to make it more interactive, we set […]

Recommend a Book I Should Read

I read a lot and like to think my interests are wide, but I fall into ruts all the same. I like fiction, non-fiction, biographies mainly, and of course technical books – though those are rarely enthralling! You can see the list of some of what I’ve read here. Books shape you, often in ways […]

DevExpress and a Stumper

Late last year I used the DevExpress controls for a small task after they were recommended by a friend. Very similar to the native ASP.Net controls in Visual Studio 2008, just more powerful and better looking too. I had a grid control on a web page that needed some changes, swapped out for the DE […]