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• Where I'll Be At JavaOne 2012

  - by Geertjan

  Fun and games for me at JavaOne 2012. Below are the sessions/BOFs/tutorials I'll be attending. The items in red are the sessions and BOFs where I'll be speaking, either as the main/only speaker or as a supporting speaker in someone else's presentation, while the other items (except for the NetBeans booth duties and mini presentations, which are included below) are items I'm interested in and so will be sitting in the audience: Sunday: NetBeans Day Monday: 10:00 - 12:00 TUT4801: Make Your Clients Richer: JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform 12:20 - 12:30 Mini Presentation in OTN Lounge: What's New in NetBeans IDE? 13:00 - 14:00 CON7050: How My Life Would Have Been So Much Better If We Had Used the NetBeans Platform 14:30 - 14:40 Mini Presentation in OTN Lounge: NetBeans and Java EE 15:00 - 16:00 CON4038: Project EASEL: Developing and Managing HTML5 in a Java World 16:30 - 17:15 BOF6151: NetBeans.Next: The Roadmap Ahead 17:30 - 18:15 BOF3332: Lessons Learned in Writing a PDF-to-JavaFX Converter for NetBeans 18:30 - 19:15 BOF4920: Runtime Class Reloading for Dummies Tuesday: 9:30 - 11:30 NetBeans Booth 11:30 - 12:30 CON6139: Lessons Learned in Building Enterprise and Desktop Applications with the NetBeans IDE 13:00 - 14:00 CON4387: Bringing Mylyn to NetBeans and OSGi, Bridging Their Worlds 14:30 - 14:40 Mini Presentation in OTN Lounge: NetBeans Java Editor 15:30 - 17:30 NetBeans Booth 17:30 - 18:15 BOF3665: Custom Static Code Analysis 18:30 - 19:15 BOF5806: Doing JSF Development in the NetBeans IDE  Wednesday: 8:30 - 9:30 CON5132: NetBeans Plug-in Development: JRebel Experience Report 10:00 - 11:00 CON2987: Unlocking the Java EE 6 Platform 11:30 - 12:30 CON10140: Delivering Bug-Free, More Efficient Code for the Java Platform 13:00 - 14:00 CON3826: Patterns for Modularity: What Modules Don’t Want You to Know 14:30 - 14:40 Mini Presentation in OTN Lounge: NetBeans Platform 15:00 - 16:00 CON3160: Dynamic Class Reloading in the Wild with Javeleon Thursday: 12:30 - 13:30 CON4952: NetBeans Platform Panel Discussion 14:00 - 15:00 CON11879: Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform There are several sessions/BOFs I would have liked to be able to attend, but because of clashes with other sessions that I need to see slightly more urgently, I won't be able to attend those, unfortunately. Will be a busy but interesting time, as always! The entire list of NetBeans-oriented sessions can be found here: http://netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2012/index.html

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• Speaking at Sinergija12

  - by DigiMortal

  Next week I will be speaker at Sinergija12, the biggest Microsoft conference held in Serbia. The first time I visited Sinergija it was clear to me that this is the event where I should go back. Why? Because technical level of sessions was very well in place and actually sessions I visited were pretty hardcore. Now, two years later, I will be back there but this time I’m there as speaker. My session at Sinergija12 Here are my three almost finished sessions for Sinergija12. ASP.NET MVC 4 Overview Session focuses on new features of ASP.NET MVC 4 and gives the audience good overview about what is coming. Demos cover all important new features - agent based output, new application templates, Web API and Single Page Applications. This session is for everybody who plans to move to ASP.NET MVC 4 or who plans to start building modern web sites.   Building SharePoint Online applications using Napa Office 365 Next version of Office365 allows you to build SharePoint applications using browser based IDE hosted in cloud. This session introduces new tools and shows through practical examples how to build online applications for SharePoint 2013.   Cloud-enabling ASP.NET MVC applications Cloud era is here and over next years more and more web applications will be hosted on cloud environments. Also some of our current web applications will be moved to cloud. This session shows to audience how to change the architecture of ASP.NET web application so it runs on shared hosting and Windows Azure with same code base. Also the audience will see how to debug and deploy web applications to Windows Azure. All developers who are coming to Sinergija12 are welcome to my sessions. See you there! :)

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• Recommended Free Web Hosting Providers?

  - by Noah Goodrich

  I have been tasked with finding a low budget (translate free) web hosting service for a Facebook group and would like feedback from the professional community as to their experiences with free hosting providers in general, as well as any specific recommendations or evaluations of free (or very inexpensive) providers. Our specific needs for this project include: PHP 5 Support Mysql 5.0 Support Apache 2 Ability to use mod_rewrite in .htaccess files

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• SQLAuthority News – Don’t Be Afraid To Fool The World – Video by John Sonmez

  - by Pinal Dave

  Sometime some words and statements grabs your attention and it is hard to stop thinking about that after a while. Something similar happened a few days ago when I read the twitter statement of my friend and Pluralsight author John Sonmez. He twitted few days ago very interesting statement. “I don’t know a single successful person, who doesn’t deep down think that have the world fooled. #fooltheworld” by John Sonmez. When I read it, I was extremely intrigued by this statement. I read it many times, I shared with my family and I just could not stop interpreting this statement. It was indeed fun to read it again and again and there are so many different meanings one can take away from the statement. I know John very well, he is a  wonderful person and have very positive energy for the life. I just had to request him to build a video around it. Right after 5 days of my request, John created a wonderful video around this subject. I watched it multiple times as it was a wonderful video. I am not going to write about what was in the video much as I suggest you to watch the video itself. Here is one of the personal stories I want to share which is absolutely relevant to this video. I think my story 100% resonant the story of John. A Real Story from My Past Three years ago, I submitted a session in one of the SharePoint conference as a SQL Server session. My session was accepted and I prepared it very well. I put more than 2 month’s time to prepare for the session and I was very excited to present the session. I reached to the event place traveling thousands of the miles and I was very much excited to present the session. However, there was a little mixed up in the session. There were multiple session which were similar to my session title. One of the other speakers also had proposed a database related session and was selected. When the material went to print the printing team got confused and by mistake swapped the sessions. The other speaker got Performance with SQL Server session and I had received Performance with SharePoint session. IT was indeed a big mixed up but now that is how it was in the event guide and it was marketed the same way everything in the event. A Big Mix Up I had to talk with the event organizer and we come to the conclusion that we all had good intention but things just got mixed up and now was the time when “The show must go on“. I had a great amount of hesitation to go and present the session as I had personally never worked with Sharepoint so close in my life and my session abstracted talked about SharePoint tricks in depth. Two hours before the session I took the help of one of my friend and installed the SharePoint on my box. He showed me a few things here and there but it was never a good enough time to learn everything which I wanted to learn. The Moments of Confidence I was very scared and nervous to go on the stage as a SharePoint was not something I felt comfortable. However, I decided to go on stage with confidence as a SharePoint expert. Though I did not know SharePoint at the best, I had confidence that whatever I know is correct and I will not misguide people. I had no intention to fool people but I had no intention to accept that I am a fool and you all wasted your time and money to dedicate your time to attend my session. I decided to be honest but at the same time decided to take the session beyond my expertise. The sixty minutes of the session went very fine and I was able to manage all the difficult question at a satisfactory level. When the session was over my feeling was that I would have not presented or talked any different if I had more knowledge of the SharePoint at that time. I think it was one of my best sessions and it was reflected in the session feedback as well. I was the best speaker across all the track and my session had highest ranking. I was delighted and I learned a very valuable lesson. I must go beyond my limits and knowledge. I must aim higher and work harder. I should not lie but I should have confidence that I have a good heart and I put 100% in my efforts.  Lessions Learned Since this incident I have learned a lot about SharePoint and I am now a regular speaker at various SharePoint conferences along with SQL Server sessions. I am motivated and I am not afraid. I know people have lots of expectation from me but I have learned not to judge myself before I do my best. I leave the judgement of my efforts to my audience. I do not take the burden of the feedback on me, even though I know my audience have expected from me. I know what I know and I put my best. I must go out, if I fail, I learn from my mistake but I must keep my progress trajectory very high. As John said in the video, sometime success is not something we can achieve 100% but we can keep on going near to it. As long as we do not lose our focus from our goal and do not deviate from our progress path, we are doing things right. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)  Filed under: About Me, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2010 Recap, Slides, and Photos

  - by Brian Jackett

  This past weekend I attended SharePoint Saturday Michigan (SPSMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  For those unfamiliar, SharePoint Saturday is a community driven event where various speakers gather to present at a FREE conference on all topics related to SharePoint.  This made my third SharePoint Saturday attended and second I’ve spoken at.  I believe today it was announced that about 210 people total attended the event.  I was very happy with the turnout, especially the ratio of male to female attendees.  Typically with computer related conferences the ratio leans towards more males attending, but both Peter Serzo (one of conference organizers) and I both commented to each other that at the end of the day it appeared to be close to 40% women in the crowd.  So here’s my recap of the weekend. Arrival     Friday afternoon I drove up from Columbus, OH to Ann Arbor, MI and arrived around 4pm.  I was attempting to avoid the rush hour traffic and construction backups.  Turned out to be a good idea because other speakers coming up Friday got stuck on a highway which literally closed down in both directions due to a bad accident.  I was talking my friend Sean McDonough through the highway closing and this was the first time I had seen a solid black traffic line on Google Maps.  Most of us are familiar with Green, Yellow, and Red, but this line was black if that tells you how bad it got. Speaker “Dinner”     Fast forward a few hours and it was time for the speaker “dinner.”  I put “dinner” in quotes because with this night alone SPSMI set a new bar for nicest and most extravagant speaker appreciation events for SharePoint Saturday.  By tapping into some very influential contacts, the conference organizers were able to provide a truck limo (yep you heard right) with refreshments, access to an underground suite at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and courtside tickets to see the Detroit Pistons play that night.  Being a Michigan native I have to say that I was absolutely floored by this experience and very thankful to our conference organizers Peter, Sebastian, and Jesse along with Trillium Teamologies. Sessions     The actual conference started Saturday morning at 9am with the keynote by Rob Collie who is the Microsoft program manager for PowerPivot.  The day continued and I attended the following sessions: Mike Watson (@mikewat) – “SharePoint 2010 Fight Night: Devs vs. Admins” Karl Swedeberg (@kswedberg) – “A Walk on the Client Side with jQuery“ [my session] Brian Jackett (@briantjackett) - “Real World Deployment of SharePoint 2007 Solutions” Jeff Willinger (@jwillie) - “Social Computing and Collaboration Inside and Outside the 4 Walls” Paul Schaeflein (@paulschaeflein) – “PowerShell for the SharePoint Developer” My Presentation     I had a great time presenting my session on Deploying SharePoint 2007 Solutions, but it wasn’t without its fair share of technical issues.  As my session was right after lunch I came in to my room 10 mins early to set up my laptop, slides, and demos.  As a quick background note, a few months ago I got an upgraded laptop from my company Sogeti and have been dual booting it between XP (factory installed) and Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V.  As such I had prepared all of my demo virtual machines to run under Hyper-V.  About 3 minutes before my session was scheduled to start though it became apparent that I did not have the correct display drivers to connect Windows Server 2008 R2 to the projector…     As you can imagine this was a slight cause for concern as I was potentially going to be unable to give my presentation.  Luckily for me I usually prepare for such unforeseen issues and had my presentation and some spare VMs that would run on XP on my external hard drive.  Knowing this I rebooted my machine into XP and began my presentation without slides until about 5 mins into the session when everything was up and running on XP.  Despite this being the first time I gave this presentation I have to say it was one of my favorites I’ve given so far.  The audience was very engaged in the session and I received some great, positive feedback afterwards.  Thanks to all who attended my session, I appreciate it very much. Link to Presentation Files     For those of you who attended my session and would like my slides or demo PowerShell scripts they can be found on my SkyDrive at the link below.  Also, if you have a few minutes and wouldn’t mind rating my session I have this session posted on SpeakerRate.  As speakers we always appreciate any and all feedback attendees offer, so thank you if you are able to provide any. SkyDrive folder with session files Rate my SharePoint 2007 Solutions session   Picture Albums     For everyone else, here are my pictures from the weekend.  The first link is to my FaceBook album which will have tagging (recommend this one.)  The second is to my Live album if you care for higher resolution images. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2154482&id=21905041&l=a3fb72ee8c View Full Album Conclusion     A big thank you goes out to all of the organizers, speakers, sponsors, and attendees of SPSMI.  As I’ve said so many times, without each and every one of you these events wouldn’t be possible.  I thoroughly enjoyed this trip back to my home state and presenting a new session.  For those interested in my upcoming schedule I will be giving two sessions on PowerShell at SharePoint Saturday Charlotte in April, helping plan Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition in May, and I’m submitting sessions to Day of .Net Ann Arbor in May as well.  Beyond that I haven’t planned out any travels.  Thanks for reading my recap.  Look forward to more technical posts now that I have a short break in conferences.         -Frog Out   links: Michigan image

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• What's going on with INETA and the Regional Speakers Bureau?

  - by Chris Williams

  For those of you that have been waiting patiently (and not so patiently) I'm happy to say that we're very near completion on some changes/enhancements/improvements that will allow us to finally go live with the INETA Regional Speakers Bureau. I know quite a few of you have already registered, which is great (though some of you may need to come back and update your info) and we've had a few folks submit requests, mostly in a test capacity, but soon we'll be up and live. Here's how it breaks down. Be sure to read this, because things have changed a bit from when we initially announced it. 1. The majority of our speaker/event funding is going into the Regional Speakers Bureau.  The National Bureau still exists, but it's a good bit smaller than it was before, and it's not an "every group" benefit anymore. We'll be using the National Bureau as more of a strategic task force, targeting high impact events and areas that need some community building love from INETA. These will be identified and handled on a case by case basis, and may include more than just user group events. 2. You're going to get more events per group, per year than you did before. Not only are we focusing more resources on this program, but we're also making a lot of efforts to use it more effectively. With the INETA Regional Speakers Bureau, you should be able to get 2-3 INETA speakers per year, on average. Not every geographical area will have exactly the same experience, but we're doing the best we can. 3. It's not a farm team program for the National Bureau. Unsurprisingly, I managed to offend a number of people when I previously made the comment that the Regional Speakers Bureau program was a farm team or stepping stone to the National Bureau. It was a poor choice of words.  Anyone can participate in the Regional Speakers Bureau, and I look forward to working with all of you. 4. There is assistance for your efforts. The exact final details are still being hammered out, but expect it to look something like this: (all distances listed are based on a round trip) Distances < 120 miles = $0 121 miles - 240 miles = $50 (effectively 1 to 2 hours, each way) 241 miles - 360 miles = $100 (effectively 2 to 3 hours, each way) 361 miles - 480 miles = $200 (effectively 3 to 4 hours, each way) For those of you who travel a lot, we're working on a solution to handle group visits when you're away from home. These will (for now) be handled on a case by case basis. 5. We're going to make it as easy as possible to work with the program. In order to do this, we need a few things from you. For speakers, that means your home address. It also means (maybe) filling out a simple 1 line expense report via the INETA website. For user groups, it means making sure your meeting address is up to date as well. 6. Distances will be automatically calculated from your home of record to the user group event and back. We realize that this is not a perfect solution to every instance, but we're not paying you to speak at an event, and you won't be taxed on this money. It's simply some assistance to make your community efforts easier. Our way of saying thanks for everything you do. 7. Sounds good so far, what's the catch? There's always a catch, right? In this case there are two of them: 1) At this time, Microsoft employees are welcome to use the website to line up speaking engagements with user groups, but are not eligible for financial assistance. 2) Anyone can register and use the website to line up speaking engagements with user groups, however you must receive and maintain a net score of 3+ positive ratings (we're implementing a thumbs up / thumbs down system) in order to receive financial assistance. These ratings are provided by the User Group leaders after the meeting has taken place. 8. Involvement by the User Group leaders is a key factor in the success of this program. Your job isn't done once you request a speaker. After you've had your meeting, it's critical that you go back to the website and take a very small survey. Doing this ensures that the speaker gets rated (and compensated if eligible) and also ensures that you can make another request, since you won't be able to make a new request if you have an old one outstanding. 9. What about Canada? We're definitely working on that. Unfortunately nothing new to report on that front, other than to say that we're trying. So... this is where things stand currently. We're working very quickly to get this in place and get speakers and groups together. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below and I'll answer them as quickly as possible. If I've forgotten anything, or if things change, I'll update it here. Thanks, Chris G. Williams INETA Board of Directors

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• How to handle compensation issue

  - by Ali

  I consider myself an expert Software Developer. Recently, I noticed my current company posted a new job through a recruting firm requiring half experience than I have and even lesser set of skills. However, they are offering the same salary as my current salary. When I joined my current company a year ago, they declined to pay my asking salary. My evaluations are good and there are critical projects in the pipeline where my involvement is crucial for their success. I'm little confused on how to handle this situation. I don't want to come across threatning or any thing like that.

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• How to explain that writing universally cross-platform C++ code and shipping products for all OSes is not that easy?

  - by sharptooth

  Our company ships a range of desktop products for Windows and lots of Linux users complain on forums that we should have been written versions of our products for Linux years ago and the reason why we don't do that is we're a greedy corporation all our technical specialists are underqualified idiots Our average product is something like 3 million lines of C++ code. My and my colleagues analysis is the following: writing cross-platform C++ code is not that easy preparing a lot of distribution packages and maintaining them for all widespread versions of Linux takes time our estimate is that Linux market is something like 5-15% of all users and those users will likely not want to pay for our effort when this is brought up the response is again that we're greedy underqualified idiots and that when everything is done right all this is easy and painless. How reasonable are our evaluations of the fact that writing cross-platform code and maintaining numerous ditribution packages takes lots of effort? Where can we find some easy yet detailed analysis with real life stories that show beyond the shadow of a doubt what amount of effort exactly it takes?

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• PHP 5.2 et 5.3 : un bug étrange rend les attaques par Déni de Service enfantines sous Windows et Linux

  PHP : un bug étrange rendrait enfantines les attaques par Déni de Service Il toucherait les versions 5.2 et 5.3 du langage sous Windows et Linux Un bug critique vient d'être découvert dans les branches 5.2 et 5.3 de PHP, le langage de programmation Web parmi les plus populaires. Ce bug est provoqué par certaines valeurs de nombres à virgule flottante ayant un nombre considérable de décimaux. Leurs calculs ou évaluations en PHP provoqueraient une boucle infinie occupant 100% des ressources du CPU. L'exécution de la ligne de code suivante, ou même son équivalent sans la notation scientifique (avec 324 décimales), provoquerait donc le plantage de la machine, et ce sous...

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• Java : Oracle à son tour attaqué en justice, un éditeur de Middleware dénonce une "violation massive de brevets" dans WebLogic et Glassfish

  Java : Oracle attaqué en justice par un éditeur de Middleware WebLogic Server et Glassfish Server visés Le fournisseur de solution middleware Java Thought vient de lancer une procédure contre Oracle pour « violation massive de brevets ». La plainte a été déposée le 31 Octobre. D'après l'explication de l'éditeur, Thought a créé une technologie (un « mapping layer »), pour sauvegarder des objets et des tables, qui a grandement simplifié la gestion des données persistantes. Cette technologie brevetée a ensuite été intégrée dans son outil maison CocoBase en 1997. Thought a alors reçu 28 demandes de versions d'évaluations de CocoBase émanant de mails dont les adresses étai...

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• PHP 5.2 et 5.3 : un bug étrange rend les attaques par Déni de Service enfantine sous Windows et Linux

  PHP : un bug étrange rendrait enfantines les attaques par Déni de Service Il toucherait les versions 5.2 et 5.3 du langage sous Windows et Linux Un bug critique vient d'être découvert dans les branches 5.2 et 5.3 de PHP, le langage de programmation Web parmi les plus populaires. Ce bug est provoqué par certaines valeurs de chiffres à virgule flottante ayant un nombre considérable de décimaux. Leurs calculs ou évaluations en PHP provoqueraient une boucle infinie occupant 100% des ressources du CPU. L'exécution de la ligne de code suivante, ou même son équivalent sans la notation scientifique (avec 324 décimales), provoquerait donc le plantage de la machine, et ce sou...

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• New Exadata public references

  - by Javier Puerta

  The following customers are now public references for Exadata. Show your customers how other companies in their industries are leveraging Exadata to achieve their business objectives. MIGROS BANK - Financial Services - Switzerland Oracle EXADATA Database Machine + OBIEE 11gMigros Bank AG Makes Systems More Available and Improves Operational Insight and Analytics with a Scalable, Integrated Data Warehouse Success Story (English)Success Story(German) - Professional Services - United Arab Emirates Oracle EXADATA Database MachineTech Access Drives Compelling Proof-of-Concept Evaluations for Hardware Sales in Regions Largest Solutions CenterSuccess Story   - Saudi Arabia - Wholesale Distribution Oracle EXADATA Database Machine + OBIEE 11g Balubaid Group of Companies Reduces Help-Desk Complaints by 75%, Improves Business Continuity and System Response Success Story   - Nigeria - Communications Oracle EXADATA Database Machine Etisalat Accelerates Data Retrieval and Analysis by 99 Percent with Oracle Communications Data Model Running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine Oracle Press Release   ETISALAT BALUBAID GROUP TECH ACCESS

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• Play song during call

  - by golemnagesh

  please help me how to play song during call if we are in same call both should listen that song, and call must be disconnected automatically once playing done... present my application behaving like,if i call to anyone once call lifted song is playing but i am only hearing that song but i want to do other person also should listen that song. but i found in one forum to do like : The closest thing you can do, is have the call set to speaker-phone and then play the voice over the speaker.sounds straight to the mic in a phone call then that would be done. but that i didn't find in API. please help me how to do if anyone knows this.

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• Is "programmatically" a word? [closed]

  - by Lo'oris

  I can't find it on any of the online dictionaries I know: dict.org, word reference, urban dictionary, oxford paravia, garzanti. To my ears of a non-native speaker, it sounds horrible. Actually it sounds like a word made-up by another non-native speaker that wanted to say something, didn't know how, and just hacked in a word of his language. The only place I've read it other then user-created-content is the android documentation, so this might or might not be related. Do you happen to know where did it start to be used, why by did it spread so much, what does it really mean?

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• How can I make the computer beep in C#?

  - by a_hardin

  How do I make the computer's internal speaker beep in C# without external speakers?

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• minimax depth first search game tree

  - by Arvind

  Hi I want to build a game tree for nine men's morris game. I want to apply minimax algorithm on the tree for doing node evaluations. Minimax uses DFS to evaluate nodes. So should I build the tree first upto a given depth and then apply minimax or can the process of building the tree and evaluation occur together in recursive minimax DFS? Thank you Arvind

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• Why it is not possible to evaluate lambda's in the immediate window

  - by Max

  Is there any particular reason? Is it not possible at all or is it just not implemented yet? Maybe there are any third-party addins that allow lambda evaluations?

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• Which well known systems were built using design by contract?

  - by Kaka Woef

  To convince my team mates of the usefulness of design-by-contract, I am looking for well known examples of realistic systems that were built using design by contract. Pointers to realistic, critical evaluations are appreciated. In other words: what is the best example of a system successfully built using design-by-contract?

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• SO-Aware at the Atlanta Connected Systems User Group

  - by gsusx

  Today my colleague Don Demsak will be presenting a session about WCF management, testing and governance using SO-Aware and the SO-Aware Test Workbench at the Connected Systems User Group in Atlanta . Don is a very engaging speaker and has prepared some very cool demos based on lessons of real world WCF solutions. If you are in the ATL area and interested in WCF, AppFabric, BizTalk you should definitely swing by Don’s session . Don’t forget to heckle him a bit (you can blame it for it ;) )...(read more)

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• Chicago SQL Saturday

  - by Johnm

  This past Saturday, April 17, 2010, I journeyed North to the great city of Chicago for some SQL Server fun, learning and fellowship. The Chicago edition of this grassroots phenomenon was the 31st scheduled SQL Saturday since the program's birth in late 2007. The Chicago SQL Saturday consisted of four tracks with eight sessions each and was a very energetic and fast paced day for the 300+/- SQL Server enthusiasts in attendance. The speaker line up included national notables such as Kevin Kline, Brent Ozar, and Brad McGehee. My hometown of Indianapolis was well represented in the speaker line up with Arie Jones, Aaron King and Derek Comingore. The day began with a very humorous keynote by Kevin Kline and Brent Ozar who emphasized the importance of community events such as SQL Saturday and the monthly user group meetings. They also brilliantly included the impact that getting involved in the SQL community through social media can have on your professional career. My approach to the day was to try to experience as much of the event as I could, so there were very few sessions that I attended for their full duration. I leaped from session to session like a bumble bee, gleaning bits of nectar from each session. Amid these leaps I took the opportunity to briefly chat with some of the in-the-queue speakers as well as other attendees that wondered the hallways. I especially enjoyed a great discussion with Devin Knight about his plans regarding the upcoming Jacksonville SQL Saturday as well as an interesting SQL interpretation of the Iron Chef, which I think would catch on like wild-fire. There were two sessions that stood out as exceptional. So much so that I could not pull myself away: Kevin Kline presented on "SQL Server Internals and Architecture". This session could have been classified as one that is intended for the beginner. Kevin even personally warned me of such as I entered the room. I am a believer in revisiting the basics regardless of the level of your mastery, so I entered into this session in that spirit. It was a very clear and precise presentation. Masterfully illustrated and demonstrated. Brad McGehee presented on "How and When to Use Indexed Views". This was a topic that I was recently exploring and was considering to for use in an integration project. Brad effectively communicated the complexity of this feature and what is involved to gain their full benefit. It was clear at the conclusion of this session that it was not the right feature for my specific needs. Overall, the event was a great success. The use of volunteers, from an attendee's perspective was masterful. The only recommendation that I would have for the next Chicago SQL Saturday would be to include more time in between sessions to permit some level of networking among the attendees, one-on-one questions for speakers and visits to the sponsor booths. Congratulations to Wendy Pastrick, Ted Krueger, and Aaron Lowe for their efforts and a very successful SQL Saturday!

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• One National Team One Event &ndash; SharePoint Saturday Kansas City

  - by MOSSLover

  I wasn’t expect to run an event from 1,000 miles away, but some stuff happened you know like it does and I opted in.  It was really weird, because people asked why are you living in NJ and running Kansas City?  I did move, but it was like my baby and Karthik didn’t have the ability to do it this year.  I found it really challenging, because I could not physically be in Kansas City.  At first I was freaking out and Lee Brandt, Brian Laird, and Chris Geier offered to help.  Somehow I couldn’t come the day of the event.  Time-wise it just didn’t work out.  I could do all the leg work prior to the event, but weekends just were not good.  I was going to be in DC until March or April on the weekdays, so leaving that weekend was too tough.  As it worked out Lee was my eyes and ears for the venue.  Brian was the sponsor and prize box coordinator if anyone needed to send items.  Lee also helped Brian the day of the event move all the boxes.  I did everything we could do electronically, such as get the sponsors coordinate with Michael Lotter on invoicing and getting the speakers, posting the submissions, budgeting the money, setting up a speaker dinner by phone, plus all that other stuff you do behind the scenes.  Chris was there to help Lee and Brian the day of the event and help us out with the speaker dinner.  Karthik finally got back from India and he was there the night before getting the folders together and the signs and stuffing it all.  Jason Gallicchio also helped me out (my cohort for SPS NYC) as he did the schedule and helped with posting the speakers abstracts and so did Chris Geier by posting the bios.  The lot of them enlisted a few other monkeys to help out.  It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen, but it worked.  Around 100+ attendees ended up showing and I hear it was  a great event.  Jason, Michael, Chris, Karthik, Brian, and Lee are not all from the same area, but they helped me out in bringing this event together.  It was a national SharePoint Saturday team that brought together a specific local event for Kansas City.  It’s like a metaphor for the entire SharePoint Community.  We help our own kind out we don’t let me fail.  I know Lee and Brian aren’t technically SharePoint People they are honorary SharePoint Community Members.  Thanks everyone for the support and help in bringing this event together.  Technorati Tags: SharePoint Saturday,SPS KC,SharePoint,SharePoint Saturday Kanas City,Kansas City

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• SQLBits 8 – Conor’s back

  - by simonsabin

  I recently announced the awesome line up for SQLBits 8 in which I mentioned Conor Cunningham . Yes we have Conor coming back. Conor is the most popular SQLBits speaker ever. Conor Cunningham is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft on the SQL Server Query Processor Team.  He's worked on database technologies for Microsoft for over 10 years and is holds numerous patents related to Query Optimization and Query Processing.  Conor is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles...(read more)

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• SQLBits VI session submission - Today is your last day

  - by simonsabin

  We will be deciding on the sessions tomorrow (Tuesday 8th March) so make sure you get your session in for SQLBits quick. Don't forget we are focussing on performance an scalability so make sure your session covers one or both of these. To submit your session Step 1 - Complete your Speaker Profile Step 2 - Submit My Sessions

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• SQLBits VI session submission - Today is your last day

  - by simonsabin

  We will be deciding on the sessions tomorrow (Tuesday 8th March) so make sure you get your session in for SQLBits quick. Don't forget we are focussing on performance an scalability so make sure your session covers one or both of these. To submit your session Step 1 - Complete your Speaker Profile Step 2 - Submit My Sessions

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• GDC 2012: The Bleeding Edge of Open Web Tech

  GDC 2012: The Bleeding Edge of Open Web Tech (Pre-recorded GDC content) Web browsers from mobile to desktop devices are in a constant state of growth enabling ever richer and pervasive games. This presentation by Google software engineer Vincent Scheib focuses on the latest developments in client side web technologies, such as Web Sockets, WebGL, File API, Mouse Lock, Gamepads, Web Audio API and more. Speaker: Vincent Scheib From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 1279 31 ratings Time: 48:33 More in Science & Technology

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