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Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:42 PM

SQL Code Camp concludes, plus poor Catherine Eibner

The SQL Down Under Code Camp finished this afternoon after a successful couple of days, but was marred by the news that Catherine Eibner , whose company sponsored the Influencers Party at TechEd AU this year, had shattered her wrist and was in hospital...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 1:04 PM

User Group meeting with Christine Bishop

Yesterday we had Christine Bishop come to Adelaide . She's the Product Marketing Manager for SQL Server and BI for Microsoft Australia. That makes her handy to know if you're in the SQL space, and we had a nice crowd come along to the user group...
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Monday, August 20, 2007 4:35 PM

My favourite thing about SQL Server 2008

A few people have asked me what my favourite thing is in SQL Server 2008 ("Katmai"). But my favourite thing isn't actually a feature at all, it's a mindset that Microsoft are taking with it. This mindset is "We will only put features...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:03 PM

Darren Gosbell in Adelaide on July 12th

What a great week for Adelaide having Australian SQL MVPs presenting! Code Camp SA on the weekend of July 7th and 8th features the Gregs (Linwood and Low), and BI expert Darren Gosbell will be coming to speak to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group the...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:28 PM

An Adelaide icon waves goodbye

The State Bank building was built in Adelaide in 1988, and remains the tallest building in Adelaide. When the bank (not the building) collapsed in the early 90s, it became Santos House , and got branded with the Santos logo. It was like this when I first...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:16 PM

Interviewed

Debbie Timmins , who I met through the ACS , asked to interview me. If you're interested to know what she asked, and how I responded, then check out http://deb.foocode.net/?p=87 Deb has been involved with the Young IT side of the ACS recently, and...
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Monday, May 28, 2007 9:03 PM

Corrupt Paul Randal in Adelaide

Ok, not so much _in_ Adelaide as, umm... well... Ok, he's going to be presenting a session remotely, about corruption in Microsoft. Or at least, the way that Microsoft handles corruption in SQL Server. Paul Randal must be corrupt himself, because...
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Monday, April 02, 2007 9:01 PM

Some new CodeCamp MVPs

It's great when a new quarter starts, because we get to find out who the new MVPs are. This time, my good friend Peter Ward has received the gong in the SQL world, and in the Dev world, friends Grant Holliday and Paul Stovell (both from Readify) have...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:02 AM

Paul Turner

Paul Turner is an Adelaide guy I know well. He's been a trainer at Kaz for quite a while, is on the local ACS executive committee with me and has been involved in the local .Net user-group too. He's had a couple of major lifestyle changes in the last...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:48 AM

Coffee and Community

It's amazing how coffee can be conducive to community. Community is about sharing, it's about developing passion and enthusiasm, it's about friendship. And coffee is too. The age-old invite - "Let's do coffee" - is a great way to sit down with someone...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:00 AM

Powershell script from my SQL presentation

Last week I presented at my user-group about PowerShell and why every DBA should know this. The talk went for just over an hour, and as most of the audience hadn't used PowerShell at all, I started from the top and really pushed concepts like "You pipe...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:55 AM

Darren & James' podcast

Adelaide's stock is increasing again. :) Darren Neimke and James Chapman-Smith have started a podcast about user-experience. The pilot can be downloaded from Darren's blog . It's really quite good too! It goes for just 15 minutes, and I'm trying to encourage...
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