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Category: Conferences & Gatherings
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Serverless in a Conference?
I just spent the last few days in Austin for a conference on Serverless computing. If you don’t know, Serverless is the horrific marketing term for Functions as a Service. It’s basically a way to run code in the cloud where the server and runtime is managed for you’re only charged for the time the…
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Tech Conference Attendee Bill of Rights
I have the opportunity to attend and speak at conferences pretty frequently. But it wasn’t always that way. It wasn’t too long ago that I was only able to attend a conference every other year. So when I was able to get away to a conference it was a pretty big deal. I tried to get…
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Summit 2013 In Review: The Good
The PASS Summit had a lot to live up to. I’ve heard so much about the Summit from my fellow PASS members I fully expected it to be located in the Land of Oz, staffed by the Kermit the Frog and the Muppets, and the speakers carried lightsabers while moving you to tears by just…
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Summit 2013 In Review: Overview
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the PASS Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina. I’ve made attempts the past few years but I’ve never been able to put a trip together for one reason or another. This was my first PASS Summit which some have described as the Super Bowl of SQL Server conferences. The…
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T-SQL Tuesday #41: How I Started Presenting
For my first T-SQL Tuesday post this is an appropriate title. I love speaking. It all started when the call for speakers came out for the very first South Florida IT Pro Camp. At the time I was a practicing project manager and was looking for excuses to keep my technical skills up-to-date. I was finding…
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Why I Started a .Net User Group
“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work.” – Hubert H. Humphrey Last year I started a journey. For years, I had been observing people interact in groups.…