Monthly Archives: October 2012

More Thoughts on the Mac Air

I’ve been living with my Mac Air for a few weeks now, thought I’d share some quick thoughts: I miss the backspace key/behavior. Air only has the delete key. I miss the right click button. And I miss the home/end … Continue reading

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PASS Election Results Posted

Congratulations to Wendy Pastrick, James Rowland-Jones, and Sri Sridharan on winning a two year term on the PASS Board of Directors. It was an amazingly close race, read the full results here.  The remaining two candidates, Allen Kinsel and Kendal … Continue reading

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Another Strange MS Access Gotcha

This past week I needed to retrieve a spreadsheet from a Sharepoint library, add a column to a sheet, and then populate that column based on some data I had in Access. Rather than import the data into Access to … Continue reading

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How Do We Get More People To Attend Free Events?

Look around your office, how many of your colleagues have attended any training in the past year? How many have been to a user group meeting, SQLSaturday, Code Camp, Give Camp, or IT Pro Camp? If that number is low, … Continue reading

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Reminder to Register for the Monday Night Networking Party

We just crossed the 100 mark for registrants for our Monday Night Networking Party and still room for more. If you’re in going to be in Seattle Monday why not have a low key dinner with some new people that … Continue reading

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MVP Status: Renewed

I was just answering an email and realized I’m behind on posting on a few topics, one of them the notification last week that I was renewed as a SQL Server MVP for another year. Always nice to be recognized, … Continue reading

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Give Camp Orlando on Oct 26-28, 2012

My friend Richard Salogub is heading up this years Give Camp Orlando, an effort to link developers and IT professionals with non-profits that need some IT assistance – most often web sites and content management, but they try to help … Continue reading

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