VSTSC's Community Server

Introduction I was tagged by Joe Webb for this question circulating through the inter-tubes. Joe and I shared a cab to the airport after the PASS Summit 2008. If you've never had the opportunity to share a cab with Joe, I highly recommend it. He's one of those people. You know the type - they talk to you for a few minutes and ...

Introduction Have I warned you that I am an engineer? If not, consider yourself warned.  A long time ago in place not too far away, I learned about the Theory of Constraints from a book: The Goal. The mantra of the book was an application of Carnot's Second Law of Thermodynamics (also known as entropy) to management philosophy. It's ...

Introduction There was a lot of buzz today on the sexual harassment of our female peers. The first post I saw was from Alan Stevens. This was followed by at least two more from Steve Jones and Denny Cherry - and there were likely more I haven't yet seen. Women Approximately half the population is female, but the ratio is much ...

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 was a sign-up sheet... Thanks! This has been an awesome, awesome day! ...

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 Server 2008 and Powershell during lunch. And I just finished talking about Change Data ...

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 This was my one-line response to an internal email circulated among the Technical Brain ...

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 to the developer community. A lot of community work is done by folks who give of their ...

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 my site and I leave you alone... mostly. This will not work ...

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. People are not resources or assets. Don't go away. Each hypothesis is ...

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. People are not resources or assets. Don't go away. Each hypothesis is ...