December 2005 - Posts

2005's Must-Read Blog of the Year Award Goes To...

Jason Haley, link blogger extraordinaire.

I don't have time to read the entire MSDN feed, in addition to lots of other feeds, and figure out what's interesting.  And luckily, I don't have to.  Jason Haley does all of that work for me.  Once or twice a day he posts his "Interesting Finds," which are links pulled from all over the blogosphere.  .NET information, SQL Server information, career advice, occasional other randomness.  All with a nice Microsoft geek overtone.  Jason has great taste in his content, and every one of his posts includes a couple of links I want to read.  I highly recommend his blog to anyone interested in .NET and related issues.
posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:03 AM by amachanic with 1 Comments

Various new stuff

... Yet another attempt to keep my blog from feeling like I've completely abandoned it!  Here are some things I've been working on recently:

  • New article published in SQL Server Professional magazine: Debugging with Macros and Assertions. The article talks about debugging using TSQLMacro and TSQLAssert.
  • To go along with that article, I've put out a service release of TSQLMacro with a couple of bug fixes (no new features yet--coming soon!)
  • Took beta exams 71-431 and 71-441.  I felt that while both exams were better than 228 and 229, neither were perfect.  There is still a lot of ambiguity in many of the questions.  I left a lot of comments for both exams, so hopefully MS Learning will read them.  I'm taking 71-443 and 71-444 this week.  It should be interesting to see how those stack up!
  • I was featured as Database Geek of the Week a couple of weeks ago.

posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 8:26 PM by amachanic with 1 Comments