PASS Summit 2011 Eval Results

My presentation on Professional Development Plans ended up being ranked 47th out of 190, with an overall score of 4.63. The range is 1-5 with 5 being good, but it’s also a game of inches. If my score had been 4.5 I would have dropped to 90th place. Solidly in the middle of the pack […]

Presenting at IT Pro Camp in January 2012

My first outing of the new year will be at the IT Pro Camp here in Orlando, working on some tweaks to my presentation on Professional Development Plans. The full schedule has been posted. I’m looking forward to this event!

SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!

With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections in Las Vegas, headed to work, and then somewhere around 3 or 4 pm leaving for the 2 hour drive to Tampa for the speaker dinner and then the big event tomorrow. I’ll just be […]

Notes From The 2011 Jacksonville Code Camp

In a departure from my usual plan, this year I drove up to Jacksonville mid-morning in time to have a leisurely lunch with my family, and then had them drop me off at the University of North Florida about 1:30 pm. It’s definitely different to arrive in after lunch, all the excitement and chaos is […]

Join Me at SQLSaturday #74 in Jacksonville

SQLSaturday #74! I’ll be doing my presentation on professional development at 9 am on April 30th, and then I’ll be there the rest of the day learning and meeting some new people. It’s at the same location as in previous years, the University of North Florida. Great location, great parking. If you’re near Jacksonville hope […]

Presenting at MagicPASS Tonight

I’ll be finishing up part three of my informal and fast paced overview of performance tuning concepts tonight for the MagicPASS group, held in Celebration. Local speaker and friend Mike Antonovich will be doing the feature presentation on Powerpivot. All the details at http://magicpass.sqlpass.org/.

Notes from the 2011 Orlando Code Camp

Just some quick observations: Nice bright green polos for volunteers (I think about standardizing the color for SQLSaturday) About a dozen sponsors on site out of more than 50 total sponsors The opening address was ok, but I’d remind anyone that does this to practice and polish it, easy to have it turn dull. They […]

LiveWriter 2011

I recently upgraded to LiveWriter 2011 while upgrading to the final version of LiveMesh. After the upgrade I noted the new ribbon UI (see below), but otherwise can’t say that I noticed anything in the way of problems or new features that affected me. I write, include the occasional image, occasionally check the word count, […]

Bloggers-Don’t Blog About Spam!

Earlier this week I posted Bloggers, Quit Worrying About Spam, discussing what I felt was an over-focus on preventing spam in blog comments. I stand by that, but since that post the rate of spam being posted to my blog is up by a factor of 10 or more. Whether that’s because the spammers finally […]

SQLSaturday National Blog Sponsors

With SQLSaturday #49 we tried something I call micro-sponsors, charging $5 for a blogger to sponsor the event. It’s a way to do brand building and to contribute in a fun way. It’s not a huge amount of money, about $4.50 after the merchant fees, and I think for Orlando we netted $50$60. At least […]

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