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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 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 ...

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 ...

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: Those who were active in a thriving local developer community Those wanted ...