Wow! As exhusted as I am, I'm so glad I got to talk to the Lincoln .NET Users Group tonight! We had about 15 faithful come to National Research for the show and Pizza. I was really impressed that nobody came for just the pizza!
For the first time, I got to do presention (downloadable here) on SQL Server "Yukon"2005 exclusively. In the beginning, I wasn't too sure that it was going to go so well as I here was only one gent who would admit to being a DBA. Humm, maybe developers aren't such bad folks afterall.
We had a good Q&A session after the presentation. I was pleasantly surprised that three of the folks asked questions about the Compact Framework. Sounds like a hot topic for a future presentation. I'll be talking about the CF and SQL CE at InfoTec, too.
Big thanks to Bob McCoy of our local Microsoft office for our book and other swanky prizes, Holly McCabe for the big box of Chocolate HDR coins and peg-board games, and Graphic Server Technologies for our big prize: A copy of Graphics Server.NET
Stuff I need to work before doing this presentation again in Kansas City on 25 May:
- Don't run the demos in Virtual PC again
- Prep the CLR UDF demo better
- Add a demo of SqlServer class
- Drop the Reporting Services demo
- Add either a UDM or Notifications example
I hope they'll have me back again!
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I work in small section of a small department within the corporate overhead of HDR. We do neat, stuff, sure, but if you really want to see the work my Company does, check this out.
From the most recent issue of Architecture
Yet the FDA is hardly defensive about its unusual new presence in Irvine, California, a kinetic, sculptural building enclosing 133,000 square feet of laboratory, office, and support space. Physically prominent and formally intriguing, the facility stands as a sort of Rorschach test for America's perception of big government. It looks expensive—something that members of Congress pointed out when reviewing an early study model—but at $255 per square foot, it is the least expensive of comparable new projects. Its floors might have been laid out according to standard FDA lab and office designs, but instead they support the agency's new working model of flexibility and integration. And unlike most federal workplaces, the building is an inspiring place to visit, with its long atrium, inviting terraces, and views of a freshwater marsh and the San Gabriel Mountains. Its image even suggests creativity—Cruse calls it "architecturally funky," and the generally conservative Orange County crowd has dubbed it "sexy," "cool," and "wild." Most important, rather than seeming aloof and impenetrable, the building invites public scrutiny and participation.
Makes me proud to be an HDR employee-owner. Photo Credit: Adrian Velicescu