May was a good month, lots of time in the classroom balanced with a good break at home. June is going to be busy: I leave Sunday to teach Essential SQL Server at our Boston office and following that, I'll stay in town for TechEd the week following. I'm looking forward to see "Sandwich Eaters" at the show! If you'd like to say "Hi," stop by the DevelopMentor booth. Chances are I'll be around. After TechEd, I'll hop on a flight over to London where Niels and I will be doing a Guerilla SQL Server in Chertsey. Not sure what hapens after that, but I'll either be coming home to Omaha or possibly going down to Dallas to do a private run of Essential SQL Server.
That's a bummer since I'll miss June Omaha.NET event. But I should be back in time for the recently announced August 8th MSDN Event. I think folks are going to want to see this one, so go register before it fills up.
P.S., Thanks for setting my Calendar correcly, SqlDiva.
Frequent readers of the Sandwich know this line, its a take off from the Samuel Clements (aka Mark Twain) classic about the use of language. I've used to before to demonstrate the difference between almost the right solution and *the* right solution. I've been finding more and more applications of this analogy both personally and professional lately. And you know what happens when I'm seeing analogies in things -- I have my writing vibe back. So yes, I have started writing a new book, yes, it is a topic related to SQL Server and no, I can't say more than that right now.
Well, thats not completely true. No, its not an XML book, and no, its not a SQLCLR book. Its going to be short: between seven and ten chapters and not more 500 pages. Its different take than the other books in the market in that it is very much focused on what developers do.
Its been said that the three easy part of writing a book are deciding to do it, writing the first draft and celebrating it being all done. The parts I'm least looking forward to are the technical editing, wordsmithing an waiting. That's where you, dear readers, come in. If you'd be interested in joining me on this adventure as a reviewer, tester or editor, I'd love to hear from you. Just drop me a note and we can get the ball started.