August 2004 - Posts

SQL CLR Integration

Published Mon, Aug 23 2004 10:41 | GregLow

I've been listening to heaps of the TechEd sessions from San Diego while driving around in the car. Just finished listening to Mahesh Prakriya and Ramachandran Venkatesh in DAT318 on .NET CLR programming in the database. Interesting session - reiterated...

The Donald

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 12:07 | GregLow

I was stuck in an airport the other day waiting for my plane when <shock horror> I realised I didn't have a techo-book to read on the flight. I'd finished the last one I had with me. So I went and bought a book from the newsstand. Given my family...

TechEd Keynote

Published Sat, Aug 7 2004 0:52 | GregLow

On Thursday afternoon we were given the demo materials for the keynote with Eric Rudder. Terry Clancy and I tried to sort them out a bit and practiced delivering them during the afternoon. After the dinner for the Dedicated Developers (MSDN Connections...

TechEd Australia

Published Sat, Aug 7 2004 0:16 | GregLow

Well, TechEd Australia was a great couple of days as well. I had a quick start with a press lunch half an hour after arriving in Canberra from Auckland and the pace didn't stop from then on till the end. I felt really bad when I couldn't just hang around...

The Elements Of Style

Published Mon, Aug 2 2004 21:01 | GregLow

Still be doing a bunch of reading. Latest was “The Elements Of Style“ - William Strunk Jr. ( ISBN: 020530902X) Thank you to whoever it was on the Stanski dotnet mailing list that suggested reading this. Most entertaining! Andrew Parsons mentioned...

TechEd New Zealand

Published Mon, Aug 2 2004 20:53 | GregLow

I arrived in Auckland yesterday for TechEd NZ. It's an impressive event. I'm told there are 1800 delegates. Seeing the queues today, I can believe it. Congrats to the organising team! Last night I attended the speakers dinner at the top of the Sky Tower...