I mentor, teach, and consult about SQL Server. It’s an incredible tool –it is an extremely flexible, adaptable, and complex data environment. SQL Server is capable of bringing tremendous value to an organization when it is configured, tuned, and used appropriately. And one of the things that I am occasionally engaged to do for a client, is to help ...

10/23/2010   Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected.   Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award criteria, details, and benefits.)   In no order of implied importance.   Michael Peterson, ...

9/14/2010 Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected.   Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award criteria, details, and benefits.)   In no order of implied importance.   Alan Minner, Camp Verde, ...

A couple of months ago, many Microsoft MVPs received Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate MSDN subscriptions (retail value: ~$12,000) to distribute as we saw fit. I started Project Phoenix, encouraging unemployed or underemployed developers to engage with a non-profit to propose a software solution to a problem for the non-profit. I contacted a few ...

Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected.   Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award criteria, details, and benefits.)   In no order of implied importance.   Carol-Lee Tutch, Hillsboro, ...

Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected.   Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award criteria, details, and benefits.)   In no order of implied importance.   Nick Portelli, ...

The first two developers and projects have been selected –and there were some tough choices. However, those projects not selected this time will be reconsidered at each upcoming award cycle. (Refer to this to review the award benefits.)   In no order of implied importance.   Ayaz Bashir, Bayonne, NJ A website upgrade including a ...

Project Phoenix expands to include Australia and New Zealand, more here.  NOTE: At least one developer and project will be selected every week for the remainder of 2010. View the Awards to date here.   Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, over the next five months, twenty-four (24) unemployed or underemployed developers ...

  WOW! A couple of weeks ago, I announced that I would be offering a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to unemployed or under-employed developers to help them improve and update their skills in consideration for doing social good by helping out a non-profit of their choice. I didn't anticipate the level of resonance this has received in ...

  07/30/2010 UPDATE: Lastest News about the project is here. UPDATE: Additional Microsoft MVPs have joined the project and we will now be selecting at least two (2) now three (3) qualifying projects each month. The selected first tier project will have the package listed below. The package for the selected second tier project is still ...