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Susan presents SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. Awesome introduction about installation, configuration, and security! Thanks Susan! Tickets! Get your swag tickets! Can you see the clock cycles? Well? Can you? I can. Who let this guy in? I thought there...
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16 Aug 2008 Today we're holding the Heroes Happen Here Event in Richmond, Virginia! Susan Lennon is presenting on SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS). Kevin Hazzard is presenting on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 changes. Steve Fibich is talking about SQL...
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Now this is cool! The hotel in Baltimore where I'm staying has a six foot VGA patch cord in the desk drawer and a patch panel mounted on the side of the LCD television stand facing the desk - all to allow me to connect my laptop to the 32" LCD! I gotta...
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Introduction If you work with Microsoft Business Intelliegnce technology there was a huge announcement this week. Yes yes, there was the new release of SQL Server 2008, but that wasn't the big news. The big news is: The Visionary Has Left The Building...
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Happy Birthday Boof! I'm a little late blogging this - Riley's first birthday was last Sunday! Here we are on the big day: We wore our spiffy new orange-ish colored shirts and khaki pants to church Sunday morning to celebrate. Why orange-ish? Not sure....
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I'm downloading it now....
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I was asked to put the Richmond Code Camp Powerpoint Presentation up as people wanted the PowerPoint slide deck and the sample code as well. Well, as they say better late than never... I really want to deliver a series that will help developers that are...
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I was surprised last night. Andrew Duthie - aka TBDDEOTP (The Best Damn Developer Evangelist On The Planet) - called me a few weeks back and said "Let's have dinner, and bring your family. In hindsight, I should've suspected something but I didn't. We...
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I have heard a rumor going around that real SharePoint developers only write code utillizing the SharePoint API. I have heard a rumor going around that real SharePoint developers never utilize the set of SharePoint web services available to them. To this...
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Warning: Cranky day, cranky post... I've come across several posts this year (and last) about MVC/MVP and patterns in general. I'm sick of MVC/MVP. I'm sick of the Pattern Police - everything must be a pattern - hmph! MVC was created to solve hardware...
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Introduction Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta is available. Installation is not straightforward - there is at least one "gotcha." Full SP documentation can be found here . Procedure Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta . I am installing...
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Introduction SQL Server 2008 RC0 has been out for a while. You can download it here . This post is not a detailed examination of the setup options. There are much better articles and posts out there if you want more information. This post represents one...
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Hello all! I want to take a few moments to tell you about some really great things happening at INETA. I was talking to David Silverlight the other day about some of the cool programs that INETA is making available to the developer community, namely the...
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Announcement!!! Come one, come all! Richmond Code Camp 2008.2 will be held October 4th, 2008. Details will follow over the next month or two...if you are thinking about presenting then you have some time to plan out your topics! -Kevin...
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Ok I'm not one to re-write standard system stored procedures for SQL Server. That being said I have been working a good deal with files and file groups within SQL Server over the past few days moving data and indexes to files and file groups other than...
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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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