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• Business Intelligence and the US Presidential Election

  Introduction I'm a big fan of intellectual integrity. It appeals to my engineer nature. I'm also an amateur student of all things social, which covers philosophy and politics. So I'm really energized about the Web 2.0 social networking I see all around Read More... Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 2:52 PM by andy | 1 Comments Filed under: Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Politics

• Blog Action Day: Poverty

  I'm a little late getting something posted for Blog Action Day . This year's focus is on poverty. I thought I'd share a story. There was this guy who grew up in a rural area in the US. Rural in the US is not necessarily poor. And poor in the US is wealthy Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:38 AM by andy | 0 Comments

• More Pictures From the Richmond Heroes Happen {Here} Event!

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:22 PM by andy | 1 Comments Filed under: Richmond Developer Community, Developer Community, Microsoft

• Live (sort of - 16 Aug 2008) From The Richmond Heroes Happen Here Event!

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 1:31 PM by andy | 1 Comments Filed under: Richmond Developer Community, Developer Community, Microsoft

• Hotel Monitor

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:03 AM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: B.A.M.

• Bill Baker's Departure From Microsoft

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 12:00 AM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008, Developer Community, Microsoft

• Riley's Birthday and Christy's New Camera

  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. Read More... Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 6:22 AM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: Family, Farmville, Friends

• Good Friends, Good Food

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:20 PM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: Richmond Developer Community, Family, Friends

• For Sale: Pre-Geeked Home Near Farmville, VA

  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. Read More... Posted Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:26 PM by andy | 1 Comments Filed under: Family, Farmville

• Replacing the Storm Door (Back)

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:31 AM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: Family, Farmville

• INETA - New Cool Stuff!

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:16 PM by andy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Community

• Dad's Day 2008 - Part 2

  I got the coolest Father's Day gift from Christy and the kids - a motherboard clock! How cool is that? :{> Andy Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:09 PM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: Farmville

• Dad's Day 2008 - Part 1

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:57 PM by andy | 0 Comments Filed under: Family

• Pics of All of Us - Finally!

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:27 AM by andy | 1 Comments Filed under: Family

• New E-Book: Mastering Database Edition Volume 1

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:19 PM by andy | 3 Comments Filed under: Team System, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Database Development