Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

#msteched skydiving into the cloud

Here’s a first for me; I’m live-blogging from a keynote.  Diving straight into it, so please excuse the sparseness of the notes. Robert Wahbe trying to lay out the vision for the cloud from Microsoft; trying to establish that the future is the cloud.  I hate buzzwords, but I think the point of the metaphor [...]

May 16, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

knowing when to walk away…

I don’t like to think of myself as a quitter; I especially don’t like to walk away from something I enjoy doing.  However, I’ve recently had to re-evaluate my workload (both personal and professional), and I realized that something had to give.  For me, that something was the Atlanta SQLSaturday 2011. Now, before you panic, [...]

May 2, 2011 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

SQLSaturday Atlanta 2011–advance notice

Last night a small group of us (Aaron Nelson, Audrey Hammonds, Julie Smith, Tim Radney, and me) met to discuss this year’s upcoming SQL Saturday; our goal is to make it a bigger event than last year, but still try to keep it very community-centric.  Here’s a couple of bullet points that I can tease [...]

April 22, 2011 · stuart · 2 Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

much delayed #sqlsat70 write-up

This write-up will be brief and to the point: SQL Saturday 70 rocked.  K. Brian Kelley (Blog|Twitter) and his team put together a great event (again), and it was a lot of fun catching up with so many SQL people.  Unfortunately, I had a rather severe sinus infection which kept me from really enjoying the [...]

March 28, 2011 · stuart · 3 Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication

What Should PASS be? #sqlpass

Andy Warren recently threw out a challenge for bloggers to “fix” things with the Professional Association for SQL Server in 3 years.   There have been some great responses so far (and I’m sorry if I’ve missed yours): Andy Leonard Grant Fritchey Robert Matthew Cook Mike Walsh All of these posts have great ideas, and have [...]

February 23, 2011 · stuart · 2 Comments
Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

BTW… #SQLSat70

I got accepted Now, I just gotta write the presentations….

February 22, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication

Just a quick note… #sqlsat70

I just submitted a couple of sessions to SQL Saturday #70; I feel like I’ve been way off my game in terms of service to the community lately, so hopefully this will provide me a bit of a kick-start.  Even if I don’t get accepted (the list is growing longer each day), it’s at least [...]

February 10, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#SQLPASS Summit 2010… Here we go again…

Just finished the first night of PASS Summit, and it’s been a great day.  Saw a lot of friends that I don’t get to spend enough time with, and it was a real blessing to talk about all of the changes that had happened in my life over the past year.  It’s hard to believe [...]

November 9, 2010 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#sqlpass #awesomesauce Moving up to the big leagues…

Just got word that my XML session was moved from an alternate topic to a full-fledged presentation.   The only problem?  I already submitted a trimmed down version as a Chalk Talk, and it got accepted.  Soooooo… here’s my plan:  I’ve got the weekend to beef up the XML presentation and add some spiffy new material [...]

November 6, 2010 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#sqlpass Less than an hour to go…

Till I drive to the airport.  I’m looking forward to this year’s Summit in a lot of ways, and I hope that it will energize me into blogging again.  It’s been a rough few weeks, and I’m looking forward to getting excited about my craft again.  I’m also looking forward to the few extra days [...]

November 4, 2010 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication