June 2006 - Posts

• Tech Ed 2006 Snippets: FoxPro lives

  Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:29 PM | 3 Comments
  
  

  In the press room, Mary Jo Foley (from Microsoft Watch) was expounding on how hard it was to predict which articles would really take off and which would bomb. She would write controversial pieces on the latest hot topics, such as SharePoint, expecting Read More by Tony Davis | 3 Comments | Comment on this post

• Tech Ed 2006: Meeting good people on Day 3

  Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:22 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  I met a lot of good people today at Tech Ed yesterday. I know that may seem a rather trite thing to say, but I just can’t come up with a better way to summarize my day. In the morning, I had a nice chat with Bob Beauchemin, whose written work I admire Read More by Tony Davis | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Tech Ed 2006 Beer Break: The Miracle of Science

  Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:35 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  While taking a spot of lunch in Cambridge (Boston), I noticed in my trusty guidebook a place called “The Miracle of Science Bar”. It was not far away and apparently served “good beer in laboratory beakers” in honor of the many MIT students that frequented Read More by Tony Davis | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Tech Ed 2006: Power to Microsoft People

  Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 5:07 PM | 4 Comments
  
  

  Well, your intrepid ST hack made it (almost) all the way through the opening 2.5 hour – yep read’em and weep – keynote. It was a tough 130 mins, and reminded me more than anything else of the oft-asked question: “Has Microsoft forgotten how to talk to Read More by Tony Davis | 4 Comments | Comment on this post

• Tech Ed 20006: pre-match warm up

  Posted Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:49 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  As an Englishman I’m well used to the experience of leaving some gloriously sun-kissed location and returning home to greyness and drizzle. But rarely the opposite. However, so it was on Friday as we swapped a sweltering, blue-skied London for the rain-drenched Read More by Tony Davis | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• To SP or not to SP in SQL Server? Alway SP

  Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:15 PM | 6 Comments
  
  

  I have had a lot of emails following Adam Machanic's recent SP article on Simple-Talk. A few of the correspondents expressed frustration that they couldn't air their views on the article publicly (a limitation that will be removed on the soon-to-be-launched Read More by Tony Davis | 6 Comments | Comment on this post

• Simple-Talk, Live from Tech Ed Boston

  Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:33 PM | 2 Comments
  
  

  Tech Ed in Boston is just around the corner and the Red Gate offices are a feverish hive of activity (carefully coordinated around numerous swag boxes). I will be at the event, trying to dig out the latest news and views and hopefully, scratching a little Read More by Tony Davis | 2 Comments | Comment on this post