While enduring an endless series of flight delays and disgruntled passengers in the Baltimore airport that was my own personal travel hell on the evening of Thursday, August 5th, I came across this interesting and important article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/google-kills-wave-its-collaboration-tool/?ref=technology Even if you don't read the article, you can see from the URL that Google has decided to put an end to the collaboration experiment known as Wave. Wave will be available through the end of the year and most of its major components are now available as open … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Google Wave is Dead. Long Live the Wave!
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, Google, Google Wave, news analysis, Web Development
Video: Influence and Authority
In today's podcast, Kevin Kline talks about the difference between influence and authority, and why IT professionals need to work on their influence to succeed. You can view this video in higher quality or your favorite portable formats at: http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/profes... Posted December 24, 2008. … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Professional Development, Video
Presentation: SQL Server for Oracle DBAs
Back in late May, my pal Buck Woody (blog | twitter) and I presented SQL Server for the Oracle DBA. Buck played Jerry Lewis' role, while I played the straight man a la Dean Martin. You can see the recording and slide deck here. Since both Buck and I spent a considerable number of years working on Oracle, we felt like we had pretty good legs to stand on doing this presentation. Here's the abstract: In enterprise IT, database professionals face a mixed-bag of platforms within their environments -- and the overlapping duties that go along with them. Whether you like it or not, you get … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Administration, Databases, On-Line Resources, Presentations, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: DBA, Oracle, Quest Software, Training
Briefly: Significant Personnel Moves Inside of Microsoft Azure
Briefly: Dream Team Forms Around Azure If you're wondering whether to hedge your long-term bets on cloud computing, this should help you solidify your thinking. Microsoft has been building a dream team for Azure, including the patriarch of Windows (and father of Windows NT) Dave Cutler. Tweets from several Microsofties reveal that another revered technologist, Mark Russinovich of SysInternals fame has also joined the team. When almost all of the heavy hitters in a company like Microsoft go to work on a single exciting new technology, you can easily tell which direction the wind is … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cool Technologies, NoSQL, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Trends, Web2.0 Tagged With: Azure, cloud computing
