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Twitter to Charge for Premium Services

It looks like at the All Things Digital Conference yesterday that Evan Williams hinted towards actually moving the company towards some type of profitability in the future. It doesn’t appear right at the moment that they have their plans solidified but it is definitely on the horizon… “There will

Microsoft Watch: Look for a Yahoo Deal on the Horizon

Well, things are starting to come together here in the past couple of weeks to see where things are heading in terms of Micorsoft’s search arena. We have the impending lauch of Kumo…which may be named Bing.. but personally I like Kumo better. Then there is the cash

New Azure CloudApp() Challenge

Microsoft’s CloudApp() Challenge deadline is coming up quickly. So for those developers whom want to flex their intellectual muscles a little bit and show us what a real cloud computing application looks like on the Azure™ Services Platform then you have until June 18th to submit. For those of

Microsoft's Kumo Search Engine

There has been a lot of buzz going on lately about Microsoft’s new search engine attempt. After the failed attempt at acquiring Yahoo earlier, Microsoft is still looking at making a dent at the all powerful Google market. So in order to do that….if you can out buy

Eli-Lilly Lunch & Learn: SMO

Here are the slides and demos from the Eli-Lilly Lunch & Learn presentation that I gave a few weeks ago(thanks again Google). For those of you in attendence this consists of the slides and also the code examples that I talked about giving you. These should allow you to

SQLExperience Slides and Demo Files

We had a fabulous time at the first SQLExperience event that Perpetual Technologies [http://www.perptech.com/] put on with IndyPass [http://www.indypass.org/]. I believe that a little over a hundred people were in attendance as the room was fairly packed. For those of you that missed it,

Stretching Your IT Budget Through Consultants

I dont often write about business things on my site but I encountered a phenomenon a couple of weeks ago at our joint Microsoft/Oracle event. Several people asked me the same question, How do you guys make money on these events? There was no selling in the sessions?. Every

Microsoft-Oracle Event March 2009

We just finished PTI’s second joint Microsoft/Oracle joint code camp yesterday. Everything went along smoothly from my end and we had over 100 people attend which is good for a Wednesday event. I gave three presentations during the day over the following topics. ADO.NET Entity Framework Spatial

CincyPASS Powershell Presentation

I have been notified by someone that I forgot to post my slides and examples from the CincyPASS Powershell presentation. Sorry for the delay but here are the files. You should also find some more tips and tricks on some of the posts provided on the site. Powershell Presentation [https:

Got an Event!

If you have an event..local or otherwise that is open to the IT community that you would like to have me make an entry for promotion then please just drop me a line and I will get something up for you arie.jones@perptech.com ….my only criteria are

SMO:Working with Extended Properties

One of the nice things about Server Management Objects(SMO) is how the modeling of the classes folows almost exactly how items are aligned in the database structure. Sadly, one of the least used items in a database it that extended properties that are on almost every level(database, table,

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta Presentations

Well, the 1st annual Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta has come and gone. It was a blast from beginning to end. The pre-event was a lot of fun as my group really killed Scott Hanselman’s group at bowling. Thanks to Julie for coordinating a great event as everything went off

South Florida Code Camp Presentation: Reporting Services 2008

Sorry for the delay. I had to head up to Philadephia right after the conference. Thanks to all of the people whom showed up. The place was totally packed for the final presentation and there were some great conversations with people aterwards for nearly 20 minutes or so..Thank goodness

South Florida Code Camp: SMO Presentation

Good Afternoon, from Miami. Things are popping here with several hundred developers/DBAs roaming around here. As promised here are my presentation slides and examples from my first talk of the day on SMO. Included are the coding examples for the SMOoggle example and the Security Checker. Please note the

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta!

The Rocky Moutain Tech Tri-Fecta is going down on Saturday, February 21,2009 in downtown Denver, Colorado and it is FREE! I will be speaking at the event and am just awaiting word on the number and set of presentations I will be giving but it should be a blast!

Consulting Services

Thanks to everyone whom has been attending the conferences and events that I have been doing over the past couple of months. I have meet a great number of unique and interesting individuals. I am starting to get a flurry of emails in concerning whom people should get in touch

Dynamic Data Presentation

Here is my presentation for our PTI Lunch & Learn. It is over Dynamic Data. I have included the final source files for both projects in it for everyone’s reference…. Dynamic Data Presentation [https://www.programmersedge.com/Files/PTI_LunchLearn2009.zip] Cheers! AJ

Central Ohio Day of .NET

The Central Ohio Day of .NET is coming. Please go out to the website and check it out. Free training, everyone! http://cinnug.org/cododn/default.aspx Cheers, AJ

South Florida Code Camp Event Coming Up!

I will be speaking at the upcoming South Florida Code Camp event on Feb. 7, 2009. For those of you whom would like to attend please visit….. http://codecamp09.fladotnet.com It’s FREE people! So set the alarm early on that day and get up to make the drive.

SQL Saturday - Tampa

Well, I just got back from the SQL Saturday – Tampa event and had a great time there. As promised here are the slides and examples from my presentations. For those of you that can make the trip to Miami, I will see you there for the South Florida Code Camp.

Powershell Tip: Put Your Things into the Library

I have had several people comment on my presentation at IndyPASS about the use of what I termed a ‘Library File’. So I decided to give an example of one and explain it usefullness a little. First off, this file is nothign more than a plain ole powershell file. What

Powershell Tip: Read a Text File

So building upon our last example, we would like to of course run this function for a certain list of servers. We could just hard code another script to use in order to write out all those servers….but that would be labor intensive and we want to simplify! So

Powershell By Example: SQL Backups

I was asked a question at my IndyPASS presentation and a subsequent followup about using SMO objects with Powershell in order to say…. Get a list of the databases whom have not been backed up in the last 2 days and then import the results into a logging table. So

IndyPASS Presentation

Hey, I just finished my presentation on Powershell with SQL Server 2008. It went great. Thanks to all the great people whom attended! Here are the slides and samples that were used….. Slides & Samples [https://www.programmersedge.com/Files/IndyPASS-Powershell.zip] Cheers, AJ Tags: powershell [http://technorati.com/tag/

Using Generics for DAL Filtering

I ran across a project recently when I needed to be able to filter a large number of table adapters across a project. I guess I could have written the a bunch of code in order to handle the filtering on each object individually but simplicity is often the best