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Pragmatic TSQL Programmer > Posts > It’s going to be a busy a busy year for speaking
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1/21/2008Looks like my spring will be fairly busy speaking at various events. In just a few weeks (February 6th), 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 5th 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 3rd. 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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