Another recent editorial I wrote for SQLServerCentral talks about whether you would be happy doing your hobby for living. For years I considered computers and software a hobby, but for the past ten years or so it’s been a job and as such, less fun than when it was just for fun. I like working, […]
Read more "Would You Do Your Hobby For a Living?"For years, ever since I was first required to be on call, I’ve made it a habit to check my email each morning when I get up, seeing if there are problems to solve. Not a bad habit, could even call it diligent, since it’s not a good idea to wait until you walk in […]
Read more "Building Better (Different) Habits"I struggled with the title for this one. One of the thoughts I had was that I believe in being a man of my word. If I can say I’m going to do something, I most likely will, and if I shake hands on it, for me that’s as binding as any contract I’ll ever […]
Read more "Rules to Live By: Be Worthy of Trust"Most of us have some general rules we live by, and I’ve often thought it would be a lot easier to get along with people if we had them printed and shared with everyone we met! I think we could do worse than to just live by the Golden Rule, but in real life it’s […]
Read more "Rules to Live By – The Intro"I’ve had this on my list to write about for a while, just didn’t have a great example until this week. It took me a while to learn, but a key lesson for me is that I’ve never had an idea that wasn’t made better by involving other people that wanted to make the idea […]
Read more "Pride of Idea Ownership"A few weeks back I was in Chicago for three days for work. I’ve been through the airport a couple times, never spent any time at all in the city. It was a good trip, and I think would be a great destination for the PASS Summit. I flew into Midway Airport and it’s all […]
Read more "Visiting Chicago"Life was busier than I would have liked this year, but made it to one game, Braves vs Tigers, for a nice afternoon in the sun. Nothing like Florida in mid March; 85 degrees, humidity bearable, and nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the day!
Read more "Spring Training 2010"Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your) network. Setting up the poll is easy, enter a question and up to 5 choices, then you publish to your immediate connections for free, or pay $50 to reach a wider audience. If you just […]
Read more "Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll"Fences is a free utility for the Windows desktop that lets you drag shortcuts into boxes you define (fences) and keep things organized. Kinda like folders, but transparent on the desktop. Here’s a picture of the tool when you right click on the desktop and select Fences: Right now I’ve got three fences defined; Test, […]
Read more "Product Review: Fences"I bet most of you use some type of diff/comparison tool at work. Probably one for the file system and another for SQL objects. I won’t call any out, but it’s a fairly competitive market and all do at least a passable job of doing the compare. I was doing a compare a few months […]
Read more "Announcing Quantum Compare v1.01"
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