Yet another post about PASS.
In essence: I had a great time.
Among others, and in no particular order, I met up with...
Kathi Kellenberger,
Steve Jones, Brian Knight, Andy Warren,
Steve Kass,
Erland Sommarskog,
Peter DeBetta,
Hilary Cotter,
Kent Tegels,
Michael Rys,
Ken Henderson, Stephen Dybing,
Ben Miller, Linchi Shea,
Louis Davidson,
Bill Graziano (the DBA, yo!),
Robyn Lorusso,
Aaron Bertrand,
Kevin Kline,
Roman Rehak,
Jean-Rene Roy,
Rick Heiges,
Eladio Rincon, Fernando Guerrero, Brian Moran,
Kalen
Delaney,
Bob Beauchemin,
Greg Low,
Joe Celko,
Chris Hedgate,
Jamie
Thompson, Andrew Kelly, Alejandro Leguizamo, Dejan Sarka,
Randy Dyess,
Tara Duggan, Nigel Rivett,
Kirk Haselden, Vineet Rao, Itzik Ben-Gan, (The Doctor) Tom Moreau,
Darren Green, Allan Mitchell, Don Kiely ...
That's about all I can remember right now, as I've just returned from
the horrible hotel sports bar, the Texan Station. If I've forgotten
you and you care, drop me a line and I'll consider issuing a public
apology. Yes, consider is the key word. You'll definitely have to
grovel!
My session on Thursday went pretty well, except for a slight demo SNAFU
at the end. To anyone who was there and is looking for the code, I
have now uploaded it to the PASS site, and I figured out what went
wrong: I forgot to run the second-to-last script! So the code does
work, it just doesn't work automatically. Please download and check it
out for yourself.
Aside from that, definitely fun. I spent a lot of time in the
Supplementary Question Lounge dodging questions and even answering one
or two. I talked to a lot of people (see above). I drank too many
beers in the Texan Station. And that's about it. Until next year...