I recently finished reading The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. The book was recommended to me by one of the folks I met at the NASA tweetup last November as I was remarking about the differences between “old” and “new” media. The book is written by Andrew Keen, someone [...]
Book Reviews
Book Review: The Education of an Accidental CEO
This past weekend while doing some Spring cleaning I came across this book on my bookshelf. I read it last year and found it to be a great read but for one reason or another I never got around to writing up a review. I forget how I came across the book to begin with, [...]
SQL University – Creative Writing Week
Last Fall I was the Basketball Coach for SQL University, and I loved being back on the hardwood. Some days I think the best place to be on a Friday Night in the Winter is in your home gym getting ready to play some hoop. Writing for SQL U last FALL helped bring back some [...]
How Many Faces?
Looks like I had an excerpt from my book published over at CTOEdge.
The excerpt includes my “shards of broken glass comment” with regards to merge replication. The exact context is as follows:
“I would rather eat shards of broken glass than implement merge replication, but that’s just me. Some people make a great living eating [...]
Chris Hansen and Code Reviews
About a year ago I blogged on how I thought Chris Hansen would make a great DBA. A few people said they liked that blog post and I loved the idea of getting Chris Hansen involved but he has yet to return my phone calls, emails, or telepathic messages.
Anyway, as I [...]
Forewords for DBA Survivor
I wanted to give a big thanks to Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) and Buck Woody (blog | twitter) for writing the forewords to my book. I put them on their own page at http://dbasurvivor.com, as well as posted a blog entry for them.
I’m not sure I could ever thank them for taking the [...]