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  • Four speaking engagements coming up

    I’m just going to list them… This Saturday (July 18th), at Code Camp SA . I’m going to be talking about functions in SQL, particularly those that involve BEGIN and END. At the end of the month, at the ACS Branch Conference . I’m going to be part of a panel discussing Open Source v Closed Source. In August...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Thu, Jul 16 2009
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  • Big events every month this quarter

    A new Financial Year in Australia, and a bunch of technical events coming up. Of course there’s the usual monthly user groups , but there’s more – particularly if you’re in Adelaide. July sees CodeCampSA in Adelaide on the weekend of July 18/19. I’ve put my name into the hat for speakers, and will try...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jun 30 2009
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  • Time zone limbo

    Australia is currently in an interesting week for time zones. Up until a couple of years ago, Daylight Savings finished on the last Sunday in March. That’s when the clocks got put back to Standard Time, as the Australian summer ended. Last year though, this got extended by a week, until the first Sunday...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Apr 1 2009
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  • Presenting at ADNUG this week

    I haven't been to ADNUG for a while. I love that the group is there, but over the past year or more, I haven't prioritised getting to the meetings. I've been to meetings of equivalent groups in Melbourne and Sydney, but not to the Adelaide .Net Group for a while. But this week I will! I've...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Oct 6 2008
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  • 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 having surgery. Catherine is becoming a big supporter...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Sun, Oct 14 2007
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  • 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 to meet her. One thing that made this meeting different...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Thu, Oct 11 2007
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  • 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 into the CTPs once they are basically complete...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Aug 20 2007
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  • 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 following Thursday. He'll be presenting about...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jul 3 2007
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  • 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 got introduced to Adelaide in 1994. It's the...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jul 3 2007
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  • 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 we've had quite a few conversations about various...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Jun 4 2007
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  • 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 he's Kimberly Tripp 's other half. So if you're...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, May 28 2007
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  • 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 been honoured. Great news guys - thoroughly deserved...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Apr 2 2007
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  • 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 couple of weeks. Most significantly, he's become a...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Feb 20 2007
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  • 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. It's cheaper and less formal than lunch, and it...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Feb 19 2007
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  • 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 objects not text". The script can be downloaded...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Tue, Jan 16 2007
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  • 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 them to leave it that short. Shorter podcasts...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Dec 27 2006
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  • Adelaide SQL UG this week

    This Thursday Greg Linwood of Solid Quality Learning is coming to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group to talk present about Performance Tuning. It should be a great time. Greg does a lot for the SQL Community in Australia, and it will be really good to have him over again. If you're interested in coming...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Dec 11 2006
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  • ACS BEC meeting

    Last night I attended my first ACS Branch Executive Committee (SA) meeting. It was certainly quite interesting. Great to meet the other people, even some of those who are stepping down from the committee now (presumably to be replaced by me!). The new chairman, Reg Coutts seems like a very interesting...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Nov 29 2006
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  • Evaluation forms

    Evaluation forms are great. There's something really nice about mulling through a pile of them after a meeting, having a look at what people wrote. It's also good to have audio-only copies of your presentations, so you can listen back to them to see where you went wrong. And you can get friends to listen...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Wed, Nov 29 2006
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  • Office 2007 RTM today, great time for a talk about it and SQL!

    Office 2007 has RTM'd today, and this includes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This is great timing, with Grant Paisley coming to Adelaide to give his talk about integrating BI and MOSS. This is a great talk, and if you're going to be in Adelaide, you should be there! Go to sqlserver...
    Posted to Rob Farley by Rob Farley on Mon, Nov 6 2006
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