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Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:24:13 GMT

Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group. We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS). I tried to balance the presentation between those who hadn't used SSIS and those who have.

If you are interested in the sample projects, packages, and data files from the talk, here they are.

Boise SQL Server User Group

Anonymous — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:07 GMT

The newly formed Boise SQL Server User Group kicks off its first meeting with Kalen Delaney on June 25, 2008.

I'm happy to see a Microsoft SQL Server user group in Boise. It will fit nicely with the other development and SharePoint groups in town.

For more information, contact Cindy Gross of Microsoft.

Remembering Jim Gray and a Tribute

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:01:58 GMT

Time flies. It's been a year since Dr. Gray, a Microsoft research fellow and Turing Award-winner, went missing while sailing off San Francisco. A year ago, at Boise Code Camp 2.0, I hosted a session on finding Jim Gray, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Now, a year after Dr. Gray went missing, the Association of Computing Machinery (the organization that holds the Turing Awards), the IEEE Computer Society and the University of California-Berkeley have joined to announce a tribute to Gray, planned for May 31 at the UC Berkeley campus. Jim Gray attended UC Berkeley from 1961 to 1969 and earned the school's very first Ph.D. in computer science. Fittingly enough, the tribute will also feature technical sessions for registered participants.

You can find more information about the tribute here:

Microsoft P&P Releases Team Development with Team Foundation Server Guide

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:30:34 GMT

Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group recently released the final version of the “Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide. This guide has been in beta for the last couple of months.

It shows you how to get the most out of Team Foundation Server to help improve the effectiveness of your team-based software development. Whether you are already using Team Foundation Server or adopting from scratch, you’ll find guidance and insights you can tailor for your specific scenarios. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.

Some quick facts:

496 – Total number of pages
18 – Total number of chapters in this guide
11392 – Total number of downloads of the Beta version of this guide
8 – Number of attempts to get the Adobe build to work to generate the guide in .pdf format
60 – Number of external and MSFT contributors and reviewers

Download the guide from CodePlex.

XML Notepad 2007!

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:01:54 GMT

My students this week told me about the new version. I remember using the original XML Notepad, and it was great, very simple.

For the longest time, I couldn't find it on Microsoft's site to download, and then a newer version showed up on CodePlex.