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SQLBits
The session voting for SQLBits is now open. If you’re a SQL person in the UK you have a grand total of 83 sessions from 37 speakers to vote select for this free conference. (And if you’re a speaker there’s still time to submit for DDD Belfast) Technorati Tags: SQLBits
There’s a range of events coming up in the next few months; In February we’ve got Guy Smith-Ferrier coming to nxtgen Oxford to talk about Astoria ADO.NET Data Services, and a nugget from a new speaker, Marc Gravell on adding operators to generics. If you want to come along please register first, it makes my life easier. What:Ahhh, Ahh, AstoriaThe emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has brought new opportunities and caused us to solve old problems in new ways. AJAX and Silverlight applications need read/write access to data and business objects without performing full page refreshes and without dumbing down...
I attended sqlbits on Saturday (and was press ganged into helping out as a room monitor and grok talk organiser). So I donned the obligatory conference polo shirt and mingled with the crowd. After a while some random strange man approached me offering Channel9 guys. Ok, so it wasn’t sweeties but I ignored the advice my mother gave me as a child and followed him back to his car .... And returned with an arm full of Channel9 guys, which were thrown out into the lunch crowd later in the day .... The conference was good; learnt more...
Saturday Oct 6th sees the first SQL Community conference (SQLBits - (http://www.SQLBits.com), 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) on a Saturday in Reading at a cost of £0. That’s right, nothing, nada, or in SQL terms IS NULL (ok, not really, I know NULL means no data, not a decimal/money value of 0, but come on, it’s marketing people). Full registration is now open, places are going fast, but there’s only room for 350 people. You need to register on the http://www.SQLBits.com site and then select the 10 sessions (http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx) you would most like to...