Welcome everyone! I have finally created a new blog and will be posting many different items of interest to computer professionals of all diciplines. Please join me in discussion!
I traveled to Raleigh, NC for CodeCampRDU this weekend. This was my second code camp, and I did my best to use fewer slides that my first code camp presentation. :) I spoke about HttpRuntime Cache and methods to ensure saving/loading data into cache is threadsafe. I had fewer people attend this talk...
There has been some discussion about shortcuts to SQL Server metadata on some of the mailing lists I am on. I thought I'd share the shortcuts I use on a daily basis with people. Now for my listing. I'll include the defaults from SQL Server already. To get to the shortcut menu, click on Tools...Options...
This last week was exciting in many ways. Last Sunday night (26 Oct) there was quite a bit of chatter on Twitter about Microsoft PDC . This is a great thing for PDC - free publicity! But, there were of course many people that were "Not At PDC" - and were talking about it. So much so that myself...
This week Telligent hosted in.telligent 2008 . It was a great success, and I am glad to have met so many people that are interested and dedicated to the idea that social networking software is a major business driver. I was able to meet many of our customers, partners, and even several people that I...
Someone on one of the SQL Server lists I subscribe to proposed a question earlier today - How do you trim leading and trailing characters? In this case, the desired string was a numerical string, and the character to trim was a period. There were several responses to that question. I felt compelled to...
Scott Watermasysk was talking to me about having a Pragmatic Beer event in Dallas next week while he was in town. So, if you are in town and interested please let us know by replying....
I blogged about presenting at the philly.net Code Camp a couple of months ago. This past weekend I went to Philadelphia, PA to participate in the philly.net Code Camp 2008.3. I had such a great time there, meeting many of the other presenters and attendees. In my talk, there were some great points that...
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Telligent now has an investor - Intel Capital ! Intel Capital is investing 20 million dollars in our company, so exciting times are ahead of us here. Like I said earlier , we are hiring bright, energetic people and if you are interested please contact me at (dpenton AT telligent DOT com)....
I recently published a new article on ASPAlliance - Thread Safety through Self-Loading Collections . In this article I show some [what I consider to be] more appropriate uses for locking and ways to simplify your API. Let me know what you think! This is also a concept that I'll be speaking on for some...
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I'll be speaking at the philly.NET Code Camp on 11 October 2008 on the topic "Increasing Developer Productivity With SQL Server". I've spoke on this topic at the NorthDallas.net user group and the Forth Worth DNUG as well. I've added some material to it since then. I hope to see you there!...