I find myself spending more time in .NET code lately. While I was verifying my understanding of one of the other attributes of the @Page directive under the ASP.NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005) release, I stumbled across the following note regarding the CodeBehind attribute:
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A few months ago, I announced that I was going to do a test-run with Twitter. So now I thought I'd share a few thoughts. Probably the most telling bit of evidence that shows how my test of Twitter went, is that I haven't posted anything to my Twitter account since December 5th, a whopping 3 weeks after I started, and two and a half months ago.
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Since we're all super-geniuses, I'm sure you don't really need this, but you might "know a guy" who does, and you can pass this along... I stumbled upon some really good, short videos on the Marketplace Whiteboard that explain in layman's terms what the heck has been going on in the U.
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As I was reviewing my notes from the PASS Community Summit, a couple more things from Greg Low's talk on Avoiding Recompiles stood out as worth repeating here.
First, was his comment that using single-part names when referencing your objects causes a performance hit because they cannot be resolved until execution time.
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Thursday and Friday of the PASS Community Summit blurred together a bit for me. Not because of the parties Thursday night which apparently left many people bleary-eyed, but the cold medicine I was taking sure didn't help things.
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And you thought that you only got $200 for passing GO, didn't you? Well, this isn't Monopoly, my friends, this is SQL Server. And while attending the PASS Community Summit this year, I saw Joe Webb do this trick.
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I went to the Women in Technology lunch yesterday. Yes, some of you will be quick to realize that I am not a woman, but the lunch is not exclusive to women.
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Things got off to a great start with PASS President Wayne Snyder coming on stage to the tune Born to Be Wild with appropriate video clip and real motorcycle (and don't forget the shades!
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Rushabh Mehta, current Executive Vice President for Finance and Technology for PASS, gave a quiz today to see if any of the volunteers had any idea how expensive it is to put on a conference like the PASS Community Summit.
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Spent the day today in the PASS Volunteer Training session. It covered a variety of things from the History of PASS (started in 1999 in Chicago) to updates from each member of the Board of Directors about what is happening in their areas.
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Have you seen the PASS web site lately? I'll have to admit that before today I had not looked at it in a long time. To be honest, I was not all that impressed with it in the past.
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If it's good enough for Joe... I just setup my own Twitter account to give this a test run. Looks like a good option for quick comments from the PASS conference that may later lead to broader blog entries.
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By now (we hope) you have fine-tuned your slides and demos, and are feeling very comfortable and confident in the material you are going to present at PASS this week. There are a lot of things that go into preparing for a live presentation, and there are a lot of bad examples out there.
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Although, officially, the posted parking rates said 0-1 Hour: $5.00, apparently the Washington State Trade and Convention Center has some minimum amount of time that you can park there for free.
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Well, here we are on the eve of another PASS Community Summit in Seattle. Last year it was in Denver, then two years ago it was here in Seattle. I'm looking forward to another great event!
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You know... that "handy" keyword that eliminates duplicates from your result set. Yeah, that DISTINCT. I Hate it! My team thought I was crazy (maybe I am, but this is not proof of it).
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Mea culpa.
A friend pointed out to me that I was behind the times. I kept using the acronym MCDBA to refer to SQL Server certifications when that is "SO 2000s".
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One of my favorite authors on the subject of Leadership is Dr. John C. Maxwell. Occasionally, he talks about how most people have To-Do lists, but more importantly, he recommends that leaders develop a NOT-To-Do list.
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Old habits die hard, but occasionally it is good to look at them and see if they still make sense... When I started writing code, many moons ago, it was ingrained into my work habit to create or update a comment block at the top of the code file.
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Now that I have had the "pleasure" of filtering through numerous resumes looking to hire someone, my thoughts on certifications has evolved a little... Or it's probably more accurate to say that they have been solidified.
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