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Well it's official. The listing for the house is live. That's not our house in the background, it's our neighbor's. But that is our driveway. The house has everything I was looking for when I buy a house: Close to town but not in town. Quiet neighbrohood....
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I replaced the storm door out back this afternoon. It was my first storm door replacement. I'm happy with it. We're fixing up the house to sell it so we can move to Atlanta! Anyone want to buy a 4 bedroom cape cod in Farmville, VA sitting on three relatively...
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INETA is doing some cool new stuff with my friend David Silverlight 's most excellent Community Credit website: The INETA Community Excellence Award and The INETA Community Champion Award . Both awards are designed to recognize folks who are contributing...
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I got the coolest Father's Day gift from Christy and the kids - a motherboard clock! How cool is that? :{> Andy...
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It's Father's Day 2008 - officially! I feel like every day is father's day. I'm very blessed to have five wonderful children. I'm proud of each one of them, and proud to be their Dad. Manda, Tim (my favorite son-in-law), and Penny took us all out to brunch...
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We finally managed to get everyone together for a family portrait! Penny and Manda are in the back, Christy is in the middle with Stevie Ray and Emma Grace on her right and Riley Cooper between her and some old fat guy with a fu. What a cool Father's...
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My first e-book is out! Mastering VS 2008 Team System Database Edition, Vol 1: Creating and Deploying Database Projects is available at Solid Quality Press . Volume 1 of the Mastering Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition series focuses on creating...
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My first e-book is out! Mastering VS 2008 Team System Database Edition, Vol 1: Creating and Deploying Database Projects is available at Solid Quality Press . Volume 1 of the Mastering Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition series focuses on creating...
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More for the "Every day is father's day" category. Me and the boys... Riley fading fast... And my shirt is still wet from bath time! Every day is father's day. :{> Andy...
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Stevie Ray and I went fishing today - and this time we took Emma with us. Continuing a proud family tradition, I told her she needed to "hold her mouth right" to catch fish. This is how she holds her mouth when she's catching fish, she says. She has a...
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Sunday was our wedding anniversary - Christy's and my sixth. We had a fairly regular day with the kids - we went to church and then played some X-Box inside and watched Stevie Ray and Emma Grace play in the water sprinkler outside. A good day. My anniversary...
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Ok the first post on Ordering SSIS packages in Visual Studio received a large number of hits...no comments but a good number of hits so I figured a follow up was due. After my first post I found myself ordering all of my SSIS packages with the order-ssisProj.ps1...
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Problem: SSIS Packages in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 are ordered in the order of package creation by default, or more precisely the order they have been added to that solutions/projects folder. What this means is that if you have an SSIS project that...
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A Follow-up To My "On Developer Communities" Series ... I have received requests about how we approach sponsors for User Group sponsorship. I have posted the Sponsorship Document we sent to potential sponsors in 2008 here . Registration is required. It's...
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On Developer Communities... I hold the following hypotheses about successful, growing, and thriving developer communities: First, you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is not always true . Quality always works...
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On Developer Communities... I hold the following hypotheses about successful, growing, and thriving developer communities: First, you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is not always true . Quality always works...
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On Developer Communities... I hold the following hypotheses about successful, growing, and thriving developer communities: First, you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is not always true . Quality always works....
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On Developer Communities... I hold the following hypotheses about successful, growing, and thriving developer communities: First, you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is not always true. Quality always works....
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Introduction One take-away from the MVP Summit last week is: We're doing some pretty cool stuff in the Richmond (Virginia) Developer Community. I attended a breakout session on Developer Communities and found the room divided into roughly two groups:...
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First off I'm not The PowerShellGuy (if you want tons of powershell information go there first)...I'm just getting started with PowerShell but I can already see how it can be extremely useful to a database developer and database administrator. I plan...
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When this blog was created for me I was worried that I wouldn't have the time to blog; I'm a workaholic and when I'm not at work I have a family to attend to. However I'm making an effort today in trying to talk about something that is my achilles heel;...
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"You want me to lie to you, and I refuse." I sat in a large-ish meeting room with the project manager and a senior consultant coerced into "diffusing the tension" on our small project team. We were all technically consultants - working for the same company...
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I received the news today: Microsoft has awarded me SQL Server MVP again this year. How cool! Thanks Microsoft! :{> Andy...
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I received the news today: Microsoft has awarded me SQL Server MVP again this year. How cool! Thanks Microsoft! :{> Andy...
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It's official: Richmond Code Camp 2008.1 will be 26 Apr 2008 at ECPI-Innsbrook! And registration is open! This is going to be the coolest Richmond Code Camp yet. How do I know? Well, they just keep getting cooler! There will be much more to come. The...
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