Thankful Thursday - Computers.

I am thankful for computers. Well, actually my love for computers. If it was not for that I would still be working at a manufacturing plant, out on the floor, checking production parts. Just like everything in a person's life we all learn from every job we had. Even it is to find out what we don't like or how not to treat people, every job is a good experience. I am coming up on 45 days at my new job. I cannot believe that, Plastech seems like ages ago. I am so thankful that I love my job, not everyone can say that. I look forward to going in to work, thinking the best way to design something. Right now I am working mainly with Microsoft SQL 2005 & SQL Server Integration Services 2005. I love learning new things no matter what application. I just learned that in EXCEL you can do more then one condition for an "IF" Statement. I have used nested statements in the past IF(condition, true,false) so it would be if(condition,(If(Condition,true,false),false)) but you can do and/or/not so it would be IF(and(Condition,Condition,Condition),true,false)

Cleveland Day of .Net 2008

What a great time yesterday.. The first session was at 8:30. It was "SQL Server 2008 for Developers" given by Sam Nasr. He did a great job explaining some of the new features in 2008. There are new data types one that was discussed was the new HIERARCHYID. You could use this to create org charts. He also covered the ability to use group by sets. This would allow you to define multiple 'sets' of grouping columns. I won a 1 GB "RedGate" jump drive.

The second session was "Linq to SQL" by Joshua Clark. It was his first time doing a presentation, you could tell he was nervous. I still think he did a great job. The Linq product is very neat. It adds the ability to see what data is being returned in the web page during design. It also ueses intellisense right back to the SQL database to reference columns in a table or Stored procedures. It also recognise and relationships between tables. I won at T-Shirt at the end of this one.

The third session was "Well Isn't that Spatial" by Jason Follas. I had no idea what this was about.. It blew me away. Spatial is a new data type. Here is his blog post about Spatial

Cleveland Day of .Net

I just registered for Cleveland Day of .Net. This sounds pretty cool..

The event consists of day long meetings on 24 various topics in .Net (i.e. ASP.Net, AJAX, SharePoint, etc.) from many industry experts. The conference is targeting approximately 250 developers from the surrounding region to learn and expand their skill set. Don’t be left out!