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Archives: August 2013
Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go
We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM and MCA programs were dying. He almost immediately blogged the news: MS was canceling the Microsoft Certified Master and Microsoft Certified Architect programs, and it was all up…
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Posted in SQL Awesomesauce on 31 August 2013
“Unraveling Tangled Code” recording and downloads!
Last weekend I gave my “Unraveling Tangled Code” talk at SQL Saturday Oklahoma, and they were kind enough to record and post the session over on UserGroup.TV! You can get the slide deck and demo code here. This session stemmed from the recurring nightmare that is undocumented, unsupported code that…
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Posted in SQL Awesomesauce on 30 August 2013
Authority as the Enemy: Notes on elections and perceptions in the tech community
Let’s hear a story. The story is true, but elements have been generalized and fictionalized for simplicity, and so’s not to call out any individuals. This story has happened several times, you see. Story Time A few years ago, an election was held for positions on the PASS* board. Several…
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Posted in SQL Awesomesauce on 23 August 2013
Social Media as News (and why it thrills me)
The other day I found myself in a discussion about media – print, broadcast, and social – and having to explain why I thought live coverage via social media, by individual eyewitnesses, is a wonderful thing. The room more or less agreed that print media is on the way out.…
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Posted in SQL Awesomesauce on 14 August 2013
Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may help to explain how I managed not to bother letting anyone here on the Interwebs know that we were taking most of July and some of August off from all…
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Posted in SQL Awesomesauce on 12 August 2013