I recently posted this on Stack Overflow, thought I’d repost it here too. Some random advice on delivering technical presentations: Consider your audience. Is it an all technical audience? If you have a mix of technical and non-technical people, it’s a good idea to start at a high level (conceptual) […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Hi all. It was great to see many familiar faces this weekend in Wagga Wagga. Everytime I consider the journey I’m a little bit hesitant, but it’s coming home that reminds me of why the journey is worth it to begin with. This year I co-presented with Matt Lynch […]
Doing some background research ahead of Sunday’s presentation. Thought I’d share this little nugget of wisdom: There are three ways to create a SQL Server CE database. 1. Through a Connection Wizard via Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio,2. Programatically, using .Net (the SqlCeEngine class), or3. using the CREATE […]
Sometimes in your life you have challenging, stressful and hurtful days, but somehow get through them. They can be learning exercises for oh so many wrong reasons. These are the times you really want to crawl away and hide until no one notices you. Something happens in those times and […]
Recently Paul Stovell made reference to this blog post entry by Jared Parsons (no relation to MrAndyPuppy – or M.RandyPuppy as I once misread). The introduction of the implicit type ‘var’ has been somewhat controversial. Some advocate using it by default, and only declaring types where necessary. Others […]
Well, I’ve found this link here which explains some of the fixes in the recently released patch for the frequently buggy Madden NFL 2009. Looks like they have adjusted the player progression bug in Franchise mode – and I can officially verify that it takes effect immediately once applied (to […]
Hi Everyone, Just in case you didn’t know already this year’s SQL Code Camp is on this coming weekend in that outback pleasure paradise, Wagga Wagga – NSW. Last year I was unable to attend due to family commitments, but this year I’m going, and I’m co-presenting on […]
Hi all, Recently a new programming/IT site went into public beta (created by industry notables Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky), it’s called Stack Overflow. I’m quite fond of the concept, and it seems to be an interesting forum for posting very specific technology questions, or a good way to pose […]
Recently we had a pretty fierce debate internally about the best strategy for data access in architectural design. Predictably, I played middle-of-the-field, “it depends”, but one of my co-workers, Omar Besiso was inspired to write this excellent entry. I’m not going to rehash the same viewpoint I shared last week. […]
Tonight I powered on the Xbox 360 to be told there is a patch available for Madden NFL 09. I have no idea what the update is for, but I apply it anyway. I’ll do some digging around to find out what it is supposed to fix. In any case, […]
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
Well, I just wanted to put together a short post about Microsoft Connect. For those of you who don’t know about Connect (and if the response at Tech.Ed was any indication, many don’t know!) it’s a great way to participate in Beta programs for new software being released by Microsoft. […]
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 […]
Notes taken from the SQL Server Summit in Sydney Australia September, 2008. I/O considerations fall into the acronym: GASP$ – Growth, Availability, Size, Performance and $(Price). See http://www.microsoft.com/SQL/AlwaysOn for more on availability/failover. Core I/O requirement is stable media (drives/disks) and write ordering (preserve the correct order of operations). […]
…On why I like to drink Pinot Noir in addition to decent aged Shiraz.. I’d like to credit Paul Giamatti’s character Miles in the excellent movie "Sideways (2004)" for introducing me to the world of great Pinot from this little monologue: Miles Raymond: Uh, I don’t know, I don’t know. […]