Monthly Archives: January 2008

JetBrains Sponsors Developer Day Scotland

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

JetBrains, the makers of ReSharper and dotTrace, have sponsored Developer Day Scotland with 6 bundles of ReSharper and dotTrace to give away as prizes. That’s $550 worth of software to each lucky winner. Developer Day Scotland, based on the highly … Continue reading →

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A simple challenge

Posted on Tuesday, 22 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

A homework question was posted on a forum recently. As usual it was met with the cries of “We won’t do your homework for you” (We will, of course, help if you get stuck. But don’t expect any assistance without … Continue reading →

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Creating Many-to-Many joins

Posted on Monday, 21 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

A topic that comes up from time to time in forums is how to join two tables together when there is a many-to-many relationship. Typical examples include teachers-to-students or articles-to-tags (to create a “tag cloud”) If you have made any … Continue reading →

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New Year! New Events!

Posted on Monday, 14 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

It is 2008 already! Time really does fly as it only seems like yesterday when I was starting to plan out how to get user group events going in Glasgow and now I’m planning a conference. I’m still in the … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns talk by Gary Short

Posted on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Just a wee reminder that Gary Short will be presenting his excellent talk on Design Patterns on Wednesday 16th January. I don’t just say it is excellent just to encourage you to go, although I do encourage you to see … Continue reading →

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DDD6 Feedback

Posted on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Well, I’ve received the feedback from my session at DDD6 and here it is: Overall: 3.73 Knowledge: 4.13 Presentation: 3.93 Content: 3.4   By the looks of it, the session was quite well received by most people. As you can … Continue reading →

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Where’s my data? An introduction to Spatial Queries in SQL Server 2008

Posted on Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I’m speaking at the Scottish SQL Server UG on Wednesday 13th February. My talk is on the new Spatial features of SQL Server 2008 (previously code named Katmai) It is reckoned that 80-90% of data has a spatial component to … Continue reading →

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Code Project MVP for the 4th Year Running

Posted on Saturday, 5 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I just got awarded a Code Project MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for the 4th year running. Technorati Tags: code project,mvp

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SQL Bits session voting now open

Posted on Friday, 4 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

SQL Bits II has opened its sessions for voting now. You can now go here and vote for the sessions you want to see, such as my session on Spatial queries in SQL Server 2008. (You’ll need to log in … Continue reading →

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Stats for December 2007

Posted on Tuesday, 1 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Top 10 posts Position Last Month Title Posting Date 10 7 Chocolate Crunch Cake 04-Aug-2007 9 4 What’s new in Visual Source Safe 2005? 28-Oct-2005 8 8 Visual Studio 2005 on Vista 15-Apr-2007 7 New Entry Getting started with Spatial … Continue reading →

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