For my first T-SQL Tuesday post this is an appropriate title. I love speaking. It all started when the call for speakers came out for the very first South Florida IT Pro Camp. At the time I was a practicing project manager and was looking for excuses to keep my technical skills up-to-date. I was finding(…)
After the inspiration of starting a community and creating the vision the big question in my mind is how am I going to start this thing? Luckily, I had a guide. I started off by reading Dr. Greg Low’s (blog|twitter) The Rational Guide To Building Technical User Communities. This short book is a must read for(…)
After deciding to start a .Net community the next step was to decide why dotNet Miami should exist. It’s not enough just to have a desire of community. If I was going to start a community what benefit would it provide? How would this new community provide value to it’s members and the Miami technical(…)
“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work.” – Hubert H. Humphrey Last year I started a journey. For years, I had been observing people interact in groups.(…)
Recently, I spoke at SQL Saturday #141 South Florida. Words can’t express how much I love the SQL Server community. Every time I’m able to speak at a SQL Server event I’m deeply honored. For almost the past year I’ve been traveling around Florida speaking at events like SQL Saturday talking about Project Management. But(…)
While working on the http://dotnetmiami.com website I ran across an small issue with IIS. I had set up a new virtual directory for the site but when the site was viewed in the browser the IIS error was displayed: Server Error in Application “DEFAULT WEB SITE” HTTP Error 401.3 – Unauthorized You do not have(…)
Dear Developers, DBA’s and Power Users, There is something that I’ve been seeing in your SQL that it annoys me so much that it’s forcing me to bring it to your attention. Developers, DBA’s and power users hear my plea. Table aliases are wonderful things. They make SQL easier to read and more compact. I’m(…)
This past weekend I had the opportunity to present at the Orlando Code Camp. This was a great event and I was happy to be amongst the community once again. I presented my Entity Framework: Code First and Magic Unicorns talk. I gave this talk a month ago at the South Florida Code Camp. That(…)