Doug Reilly's WeblogEmbedded Reporting of the Information Age...New Article on Career Development- February 23, 2006 An article I did on career development in general, and attending conferences in particular, has just been posted on Simple-Talk.com. As "conference season" begins, this article can help you determine whether attending a conference is right for you, as well as talking about how to minimize the costs and maximize the benefits.http://weblogs.asp.net/dreilly/archive/2006/02/23/438887.aspx Michael Rys - Database Geek of the Week- February 7, 2006 The Database Geek of the Week is back from vacation! Well, actually, 3 weeks or so in the hospital is not technically a vacation, but you know what I mean. Michael is a Program Manager at Microsoft. Doug: Where in the SQL Server world do you think XML best fits Michael: I think one of the advantages and, to some extent, disadvantages of XML is that it can be used for many different things: as a transport format for data interchange, as a markup document format (for example, XHTML,.http://weblogs.asp.net/dreilly/archive/2006/02/07/437654.aspx OT Managed Care Rant- February 3, 2006 Let me preface this by saying that I am sick. Not a little sick, like a cold or the flu, but really sick. Life threatening sick. Thus, my level of patience with the managed care system may well be even more limited than normal. I consider this reasonable: When you are really sick, and there are people who appear set on preventing you from trying to stay as well as you are or getting a little better, you are likely not to like them. Further, I have had illnesses...http://weblogs.asp.net/dreilly/archive/2006/02/03/437302.aspx |