Personal Announcements

Hi Everyone, At the end of the month, my wife and I are moving house.  We are relocating a little further south – down to the Gold Coast area.  This means there will be some impact on my blog postings.  Starting Feb 14th, we’ll be actively packing up and shifting […]

Happy New Year!  Let’s hear a rendition of Auld Lang Syne and drink merrily!  Best wishes from Brisbane, Australia and to celebrate here are some photos I took of the Brisbane New Years fireworks spectacular – punctuated by additional celebrations as Queensland commemorates its 150th birthday this year (150 years […]

G’day Everyone, My wife and I are about to head off into the Christmas holidays with our family and friends.  2008 has been a very challenging and engaging year.  From my perspective, it has been a combination of equal highs and lows.  This year we relocated from Sydney to Brisbane, […]

…I’m waiting at the airport because Virgin Blue decided to cancel my 17:00 flight home.  It has been a hectic two days but extremely worthwhile even though I’ve missed the company of my beautiful wife.  Luckily I’ll be home soon at any rate. We’ve got a good team assembled in […]

G’Day Everyone, Despite the rather sudden nature of my availability – which was evidently due to my salary and a decline in engagement opportunities (doubtlessly caused by the current economic trends), I’m now starting to put  together a workable curriculum vitae and preparing for the inevitable trek towards gainful employment. […]

Yesterday was suddenly (without warning) my last day working for Readify Pty Ltd.  I’ve worn the Readify badge of honour with pride for over two and a half years spread over two stints (from February this year until end of November) and just under two years, 2005-2007. To those whom […]

Hi Everyone, As of Wednesday, I’m on annual leave for three days which means there probably won’t be any new blog posts.  Starting next week the posts will resume with more TFS, SQL or other technical wizardry and other random thoughts. /R

Avast!  Well today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day so yee’d best be gettin’ into the spirit of the occasion, so says I! There be an official site where land lubbers and sea salts alike be meetin’.  Should you be needin’ some help wiv the pirate-speak why don’t yee […]

Later I will be updating this entry to explain the drawbacks and dangers of blogging in anger.  Stay tuned!

You might be wondering why the Mini Project has stalled.  This has happened because at the moment there is some debate over whether this will form the basis of a full length presentation at SQL Code Camp in October! My original plan was to publish the project as I went, […]

Hi all,   Thanks for the memories…the blog is now clocking over 14,000 unique vists since October 2006.  Hopefully I can keep up the ah ..interesting.. content.   Next week I am in Melbourne on Monday and Tuesday for some internal training and will be back in Brisbane at midnight […]

[Mini Project] That’s right, starting this week I will focus on a mini project which you can following along with at home. Details will be released later this week, but let’s just say you’ll need a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and the latest Release Candidate of SQL Server 2008 […]

Hi Everyone, Given that (Microsoft’s) TechEd 2008 is a little over a month away now, I thought I might find out who is planning on attending in Sydney this year?  Last year I didn’t think about it until the week before TechEd. This year, I’m thinking it would be a […]

Hi Folks,   This week the blog entries may vary as I have sporadic access to emails and so forth.  Entries may vary in length and regularity.   Normal service will resume soon.  Please vote on the previous two posts!   Cheers, /R

Well, how my blog writing process goes (yes, there is actually a process) is that I typically think of something to write about – and then I’ll post a draft to the blog.  This can happen almost any time of the day or night. What basically ends up happening, is […]