May 2008 - Posts

• Twitter Woes

  This blog has moved! You can find this content at the following new location: http://andyleonard.blog/2008/05/30/twitter-woes/ Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 10:42 AM by andyleonard | 4 Comments

• Still Alive and Kicking

  This blog has moved! You can find this content at the following new location: http://andyleonard.blog/2008/05/29/still-alive-and-kicking/ Read More... Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:09 PM by andyleonard | 0 Comments

• Speaking at Philly Code Camp 2008.2 Saturday

  I will be presenting Change Data Capture, Incremental ETL, and SSIS 2008 to Philadelphia Code Camp 2008.2 Saturday, 17 May 2008! The good folks in Philadelphia always do a great job with Code Camps and the attendance numbers are growing to reflect that! Read More... Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:31 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Incremental, SSIS, ETL, SQL Server 2008, Code Camp, Business Intelligence

• Speaking In Kansas City

  I'll be in Kansas City next week doing some SSIS training. I don't think I've ever been to KC so I'm looking forward to the trip! When I found out I would be in town, I dutifully contacted the Kansas City SQL Server Users Group to see if they were having Read More... Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 2 Comments Filed under: Incremental, Developer Community, software developers, database developers

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

  This blog has moved! You can find this content at the following new location: http://andyleonard.blog/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-sp1-beta/ Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 3:58 PM by andyleonard | 1 Comments

• Cisco VPN Client and Vista x64

  I am disappointed in Cisco. I have Vista Ultimate x64 installed on my snappy new Red laptop but I cannot install Cisco VPN Client software on it because Cisco VPN Client does not run on Vista 64-bit platforms. Digging around for a work-around, I came Read More... Posted Friday, May 9, 2008 1:10 AM by andyleonard | 40 Comments Filed under: EMPs (Expensive Management Practices), Cisco, x64

• Kevin Hazzard on LINQ To SQL

  Kevin Hazzard did an outstanding job presenting to the Richmond SQL Server Users Group this evening on LINQ To SQL! I really like the ORM / code generation aspects of this new feature of the .Net Framework 3.5. Seeing it in action made me yearn (a little) Read More... Posted Friday, May 9, 2008 12:54 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: database design, Developer Community, software developers, LINQ

• On Developer Communities: A Sponsor's Case Study

  Introduction I wrote a series of posts recently about the developer community. I started each post with a linked summary of the previous posts, which I will continue here: On Developer Communities... I hold the following hypotheses about successful, growing, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Community

• On Technical Leadership: Things Get Easier

  This blog has moved! You can find this content at the following new location: http://andyleonard.blog/2008/05/07/on-technical-leadership-things-get-easier/ Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:00 PM by andyleonard | 2 Comments

• Finishing Up Better

  More Better Last week I read and blogged about Better by Dr. Atul Gawande. In Part III of the book, Dr. Gawande focuses on Ingenuity with three chapters entitled The Score , The Bell Curve , and For Performance . There are lots of good takeaways for software Read More... Posted Monday, May 5, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Business, software developers, database developers, Books

• Taking Red To x64

  This blog has moved! You can find this content at the following new location: http://andyleonard.blog/2008/05/04/taking-red-to-x64/ Read More... Posted Sunday, May 4, 2008 5:33 AM by andyleonard | 3 Comments

• Windows XP and 30 June 2008

  Bye Bye, Ms. Windows XP? As of this writing Microsoft plans to stop selling Windows XP 30 June 2008. Steve Ballmer has indicated there may be wiggle room in this decision but (to my knowledge) no postponment has been announced. Back In My Day... I've Read More... Posted Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 4 Comments Filed under: Microsoft