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Geekend 2011 Notes
Nov 17th
Last Thursday night I received a call from my father telling me he was at this conference called Geekend, something I had never heard of before and had to get him to spell out for me. After about five minutes, of him talking while I was checking out the website, I was sold on it, told my bosses I’d be gone the next day and drove straight to Savannah to arrive around midnight. It was worth it.
Download: Geekend 2011 Session Notes; last updated 2011-11-17.
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Oracle Day & Comic Books
Oct 10th
October 18, 2011
Back in 2007 I attended the first SQLSaturday event in Orlando, FL, so it seems fitting to me that on the 18th, just next week, I will be attending the first Oracle Day & Product Fair in Charlotte!
Join us for the inaugural Oracle Day and Product Fair 2011 to discover how the power of simplicity can change your IT from a supporting function to a force that drives business innovation.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear multiple keynotes, attend technical breakout sessions and meet one-on-one with product/solution experts of Oracle’s Technology, Application, and Hardware pillars to discuss how you can transform your datacenter and power your cloud with hardware and software, engineered to work together.
October 29, 2011
After all that hard work and learning, I deserve some personal time, so I will be attending the Heroes Pop Swap event on the 29th! The event is sponsered by Charlotte’s favorite comic shop, Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find, and I will be there as browser, buyer and seller – I’ll have a 4′ table space with comics purchased in lots, typically poor condition, and personal purchases in mint condition. If it is on the table, I’ll probably let it go for anywhere from free to the price of the comic itself; I don’t want to know if the comic is worth $500 unless you’re going to offer me more than the price I paid for it! =P
SQLSaturday#33 Notes
Mar 10th
My notes from this past Saturday are now available for download here.*
This is only the first version of the notes as I want to expand further on some of my notes, but I took notes expecting to review the presentations at a later time. Unfortunately, I have yet to find the notes for one of the courses and will be updating the file once I have; I will also add an update to this posting as well.
* The associated file in this posting was last updated Mar. 10, 2010.
SQLSaturday#33 Review and Advance Notice
Mar 7th
SQLSaturday
Yesterday I attended SQLSaturday#33 in Charlotte, NC. It was the second time I have attended, my first time being the very first SQLSaturday in Orlando, FL about 3 years ago. I was glad I received the opportunity to go this year – last year there were not any near me for to attend and then return for work on time – and as before I learned plenty while learning how much I really still have left to learn. Strangely, I really appreciate the fact of knowing that there is plenty left for me to learn. As such, I would like to thank all of those who came to share and teach those who attended.
I would especially like to thank the following people who taught the classes I attended:
- Mike Walsh, “As a DBA, where do I start?” and “You Can Improve Your Own SQL Code”
- Kendal Van Dyke, “Getting started in blogging and technical speaking.”
- Timothy Ford, “Tips For The Lazy But Driven DBA”
- Patrick LeBlanc, “SQL Server Data Compression 101″ (I’m still laughing about his “white paper” slip-up)
- Geoff Hiten, “Bad SQL”
For anyone interested, I will be condensing my notes for their classes for some co-workers and I will also post the notes and the materials by Wednesday – this way I can kill two geek groups with one zip.
Oops, a bug!
I would like to thank Connie for pointing out that there seems to be a bug with my script in “Custom Tags using jQuery 1.4.1,” but I have been unable to determine why and have submitted it for review by some others. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 both fail to execute the script, while still allowing other JavaScript to run, and say the problem exists within the jQuery library itself. I will post a correction once I, or someone who is quicker, have found the source of the problem.
Next Post Preview: Custom iContact API
Next Monday I will be posting a custom mini-API for anyone using iContact’s API – my rendition uses a single function call to subscribe a contact to a list regardless of whether the contact already exists or not. Strangely, I couldn’t find anything like had to make my own, but this is an important feature for anyone who wants to integrated a newsletter sign up form into their own website. I hope you look forward to it!
