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• Book Review (Book 8) - The Elements of Persuasion

  This is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here . The book I chose for January 2012 was: The Elements of Persuasion by Richard Maxwell and Robert Dickman Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2012 7:57 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Career, Book Review, Learning, How I work

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud - My Experience So Far

  I recently joined a software development project that involves not only myself and other internal Microsoft employees, but a partner and a customer as well. We are building a hybrid solution that uses assets on premises as well as Windows Azure for processing. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:45 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Development, Developer, Web, Process, How I work, Cloud, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing In Action: How I work with Live Mesh, SkyDrive, and Office Live Workspace

  Recently I had an tweetversation with a couple of friends on some confusion around two of our products: SkyDrive and Live Mesh . Like most of our software, there’s no single way to do things. That can be a strength or it can cause that confusion. They Read More... Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 7:27 AM by BuckWoody | 4 Comments Filed under: How I work, Cloud, Cloud Computing

• Stand-Up Cloud Computing

  When I was very young, I asked my uncle for career advice. He went silent, thinking for a bit, and then said: “People who work sitting down make more than people who work standing up.” I’m not certain how true that really is, but my career as a technology Read More... Posted Monday, January 09, 2012 6:33 AM by BuckWoody | 11 Comments Filed under: Personal, How I work

• How I Prepare For Presentations, And My Speaking Schedule For This Quarter

  I do a little speaking here and there and I’ve been asked about the method I use to get ready for a talk. I thought I might share the method I use, although as you read through this remember that not everyone has the same style, processes and procedures Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:04 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Tips, Career, Best Practices, Process, Conferences, Customer Contact, How I work, Community

• Book Review (Book 2) - Rhetoric by Aristotle

  This is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here . The book I chose for July 2011 was Rhetoric, by Aristotle. You can read it here for free: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8rh/ Read More... Posted Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:27 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Career, Personal, Book Review, Learning, How I work

• Head in the Clouds–Eyes on the Books

  I normally post technical topics here on this blog, but I’m extending this post a bit to include a little professional development. Don’t worry; there’s some tech (and Distributed Computing tech, no less) in this post as well. I recently Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2011 1:43 PM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Tips, Career, Planning, Process, Conferences, Personal, Book Review, Learning, How I work, Presentations, Learning Plan, Connections

• Where is the SQL Azure Development Environment

  Recently I posted an entry explaining that you can develop in Windows Azure without having to connect to the main service on the Internet, using the Software Development Kit (SDK) which installs two emulators - one for compute and the other for storage. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:31 AM by BuckWoody | 3 Comments Filed under: Developer, DBA, Process, SQL Azure, How I work, Cloud, Azure

• Windows Azure Emulators On Your Desktop

  Many people feel they have to set up a full Azure subscription online to try out and develop on Windows Azure. But you don’t have to do that right away. In fact, you can download the Windows Azure Compute Emulator – a “cloud development Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:39 AM by BuckWoody | 7 Comments Filed under: Tips, Learning, Data, How I work, Cloud, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Compute, Presentations

• How I work: Workstations for the Data Professional

  I’ve used a lot of working methods for my desktop environment (not my servers) over the years, but they fall into three “buckets” of systems: 1. Big Workstation, VM Server, all tools, documentation, test environments local 2. Laptop Read More... Posted Monday, August 09, 2010 8:27 AM by BuckWoody | 2 Comments Filed under: How I work