Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about deciding to build a quick and dirty voting solution. Or to try to at least! Should be interesting to see how I fare with you all:-) Here are the tables I ended up with: As you might guess Ballot holds the overall description of what is being voted on, BallotDetail […]

PASS Update #33

It’s been almost a month since my last update, too long! I’ve put up separate posts on my unplanned and off the cuff voting booth project, trying to give PASS a better solution for voting this year than we had last year. A good 10 hour project to get a minimal solution done, now just […]

Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 1

Last year for the annual Board of Directors election we used Zoomerang as our e-voting solution. It’s not the worst solution – easy to use, low cost, no real testing to do. But in practice it caused some pain. Quite a few emails to voters were lost to spam filters and we didn’t have a […]

24 Hours of PASS Recordings Now Available

Our most recent 24 Hours of PASS celebrated the SQL 2008 R2 launch. 24 great sessions, 23 of which were recorded, somehow we missed recording the one by Donald Farmer (sorry Donald!) That’s 23 hours of great education (and a little entertainment) that is free for PASS members to view on demand. Login required to […]

PreCon Sessions at the PASS Summit

My friend Andy Leonard posted yesterday about the process of getting selected for one of the coveted slots as a pre-con speaker, voicing concern about the process. I encourage your to read his post and the replies, in particular the one from Steve Jones. We’ll start at the beginning. Pre-cons are $399 one day classes, […]

Follow Up On My Keynote Survey

Here are the results of the survey, 75% in favor of a non-technical keynote, with a less than stellar sampling of 32 votes! http://twtpoll.com/js/badge.jshttp://twtpoll.com/badge/?twt=3x3fq4&r=1&s=250&b=1 Thought twtpoll worked pretty well, haven’t compared to others, but very easy to use and I like the automatically tweet at the end reminding you that the poll is complete.

PASS Update #32 (Spring Event & May 2010 Minutes)

If you download the May 2010 minutes of the Board meeting (login required) you’ll see that we devoted an entire meeting to trying to figure out the format of the ‘spring event’. For those of you just joining in the background on that is that we were already lightly discussing doing a new event in […]

Unofficial Poll on 2010 PASS Summit Keynote Speaker

I’ve blogged on this before, here and here, and ended up chatting about it on Twitter (see, I do use it sometimes) and Adam Machanic asked about a poll to gauge the interest, so I’ve launched one at http://twtpoll.com/3x3fq4. Hope you’ll vote! Don’t know if we can afford one, find one, agree on one – […]

Vote for The Keynote by Dr. DeWitt

You can choose from how query optimization works and why it’s so hard, or how relational engines and MapReduce can work together. Expect that neither will be about writing select queries! http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/na2010/Voteforthe2010DavidDeWittKeynoteTopic.aspx He’s a great speaker, and I’m pleased he is returning this year. That said, I’m still campaigning for Jeremy Clarkson to do one […]

LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!

On Thursday I presented ‘Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan’ to the PASS Professional Development Chapter (#PASSProfDev on Twitter) via LiveMeeting. It was my first time giving it to a real audience, rehearsed several times trying to get the pace and content reasonably set – first time presentations always hard, trying to get the right […]

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