Events - Pragmatic TSQL Programmer

10/17/2009

As promised, here is a link to the code and demos from my Heartland Developers Conference presentations. It was a great conference and the people there were awesome.

It contains my 60 minute talk about Creating Custom User Controls in WPF. It contains more demos than I was able to get to, and demonstrates most of the basic concepts of the various tools you can use to start building your own controls library.

Additionally, the download contains my 30 minute lightning round where I powered through the concept of how to get you WPF binding to work just as well in the real world against legacy data objects, as it does with dependency data objects.

Enjoy!

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3/24/2009

Iowa Code Camp - Call for speakers!

After the awesome success of the first Iowa Code Camps in 2008, it is time for another round! We have finally locked down the facility we will be in and it is time to for speaker to sign up!

NOTE: I do apologize that due to logistical issues with securing the location and date this call for speakers is coming much later than normal. We, as leaders, have been working since early January on several possible locations/dates and just received confirmation on the final facility yesterday. Please help us in getting the word out to as many potential speakers as possible as fast as possible.

The third Iowa Code Camp is going to be May 2nd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the Kirkwood Community College campus. This will be a combined effort between Des Moines (www.iadnug.org) and Cedar Rapids (www.CRIneta.org) user communities. We don't have all the details yet, but we are looking at 5 tracks with 5 sessions each. Our previous camps in Iowa City and Des Moines had well over 100 attendees and we expect more this May in Cedar Rapids.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL to those you think may be interested, and please post information on your development blogs.

This is a code camp, so sessions should have:

Viewable, unrestricted (not copyrighted) and downloadable code and slide decks.
Things developers can use the next Monday, not primarily fluffy marketing knowledge of future concepts that can't be used for months. If you want to cover new or Beta tech, make sure you keep it grounded in actual code and try to keep it relevant to an audience who isn't using it on a daily basis.

Topic ideas:

We are looking for 4 basic types of sessions:

1) We are welcoming non-.NET centric topics. Hopefully, we can have another full track of "alternative" stuff. Java, 'nix, Mac, Drupal, open source, etc.

2) Beginning 100-level sessions targeted towards students and/or developers from another technology. Things like: LAMP Programming 101, Getting started in the .NET world, What college doesn't teach you, Developing Java with Eclipse 101, User Interfaces 101

3) Nice, meaty .NET sessions - The core of any code camp

4) Audience driven sessions. We are planning to have various format sessions of experts that the community can ask questions to. We need volunteers to be in the sessions as "experts". We have various discussion groups (fishbowl, open topics, etc.) and may try some 1 on 1 help-them-with-their-code type of stuff.

I (greg@solidDONTSPAMMErockstable.com) need to know as soon as reasonable who is interested in speaking. Please let me know if you are definite or tentative, and what you intend to speak on. (Title/Description/Bio) I will be making the final schedule of speakers and tracks in mid-April. we already have more than 10 speakers committed, so please respond soon. If we have more speakers than sessions, we will work (per topic) on a first come/first served basis.

Code camps are primarily volunteer driven events. They are free to attendees, and we don't expect to have money to reimburse for travel expenses. If you are affiliated with an organization that would like to pay your expenses and be listed as a sponsor (or just plain sponsor the event), contact Nick Parker (nickp@developerDONTSPAMHIMnotes.com) about sponsorships.

Greg Wilson

Aka, The Pragatic TSQL Programmer

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11/13/2008

Iowa Code Camp was amazing this year!

I'm still struggling to get caught up from helping organize the Iowa Code Camp, but I had to write a quick post. The event was awesome for more reasons than I can count. The sessions were top notch, the facility was great, but most of all the developers that showed up made the event. We pulled a great crowd of engaged and talented developers from Iowa and most of the surrounding states. Numerous people drove well over 3 hours to make it to West Des Moines, and every session was full of smart, interactive professionals who really made the sessions more interesting and fun that what you typically see at these events. Can't wait until the next one in May!

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10/16/2008

HDC08 Omaha Rocked

Just finished up my presentation here in Omaha and had a great time with a great audience. The presentation was a slightly tweaked version of what I did in Minneapolis, but the credit for the great time goes to the top notch audience.

Omaha is getting a national reputation of producing awesome, awesome audiences. I was talking to Joe Stagner, and he told me that most places he visits, he flies in, speaks, and flies out. Omaha is one of only 2 places where he loves to come and stay and hang out with the developers. I know that every major talk I've done here have had great, memorable audiences who ask great questions and love being developers.

So, if you missed the link above, you can download the Omaha version of my presentation here.

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9/30/2008

HDC08 Slides and Demos

As promised, I have uploaded the slides and demos from my HDC08 talk – Sql 2008 for the Developer who knows Sql 2000. The session had a great audience and it went really well. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions on anything we covered.

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5/5/2008

“Becoming the SQL Guy” – Demos and Slides

Here are the downloadable demos and slides from the "Becoming the SQL Guy" presentation that I did at the Iowa Code Camp. It was a great session, and I had a great audience. I will be doing a lot of updating to this blog in the next few days, so stay tuned!

Downloadable .Zip File

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1/21/2008

It’s going to be a busy a busy year for speaking

Looks like my spring will be fairly busy speaking at various events. In just a few weeks (February 6^th), I am heading to Omaha to speak to the Omaha SQL Users' Group. In March, I'm going to be doing (and recording) an on-line presentation for the programmer community at Arstechnica.com. Then, April 5^th I will be in speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp. Then, of course, I'll be speaking at the Iowa Code Camp on May 3^rd. It will be a busy spring.

My plan for the spring is to develop the presentation that I've always wanted to give: "How to become 'The SQL Guy' in your organization." It is a definite departure from the typical "look at me and how much advanced stuff I know" type presentation that I tend to see at conferences. I've heard lots of feedback from attendees, especially on SQL topics that they see too much fancy stuff that they won't get to use in their daily jobs, and not enough of what they need every day. My goal is to create the presentation for the average developer who learned a little bit about SQL in college or while learning .NET, but never really advanced beyond the basics. I'm going to try to make it a very example/problem based presentation, where (when possible) I'll take something you might expect to see a novice developer create and then "fix" the code with better TSQL and a better data access layer. I think it should be a lot of fun, and I'm hoping it is something that developers can use right away when they get back to their offices on Monday.

I'm crossing my fingers that I will be able to re-use big chunks from presentation to presentation, and avoid my personal propensity to keep rewriting my presentations and adding new content.

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1/11/2008

Speakers for the Iowa Code Camp

After scratching around the idea of an Iowa Code camp since last October, we finally are moving forward with a plan. We (the DSM .NET community) and the Cedar Rapids community are going to team up to do some code camps. We are planning the first one on May 3^rd at the University of Iowa's new conference center. We are looking at 4 tracks of 5 sessions each. Chris Sutton is handling the facilities and logistic, Javier Lazano is handling sponsorship and acquiring free lunch for the attendees, and I will be in charge of speakers. If you are interested in speaking please let me know ASAP. (Note: In the first 72 hours of planning this, we already have about 50% of the needed speakers.)

I will be keeping this post updated with the most recent information on the event.

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10/19/2007

HDC07 Slides and Demos Posted

Thanks to all the 200+ people who attended my breakout session at the HDC. This has been a really great conference, and hope everybody enjoyed it. All the code and the slides can be downloaded here. (Topic: Expanding your development environment with SQL 2005)

I'll post more later, but I''m watching a great talk by Scott Guthrie about ASP.NET 2008, and I'm going to get back to listening to him.

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6/6/2007

IADNUG Demo Posted

Historically the SQL development environment has been pretty lame. Poor source control, non-intuitive commands, etc. This presentation walks you through using SQLCLR, Event Notifications, SMO and other new features to get features like automatic source control integration, and customized commands without resorting to 3rd party tools. The PowerPoint, the SQL scripts and the C# source code of the demos is included.

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