Anith Gopal

The Library of Congress and The Official Whitehouse Photostream by Amy Sorokas /   The trend of making photographs easily accessible and available for anyone to view at any time online is great thing for institutions with a plethora of images of historical significance.   There are two great examples of this trend on Flickr today – The Library of Congress and The Official Whitehouse Photostream . Each of the streams makes hundreds of images available regularly with the only difference being…( read more )

Hi all, If you still have BizTalk 2004 in your environment, mainstream support ends in July 2009. In Australia, we have a partner who can do an assessment for you on what it may take to upgrade (if necessary). Email me if you want more info

Register by going to http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx and we will let you know when the CTP ships.

Our local SQL Tech Specialist Ron alerted me to a change in policy.

Given that a lot of our customers here in VIC have experience around Oracle, this might be some interesting training? This 15 modules, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an Oracle DBA to manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 system.

http://virtualeye.lvps09.com/

Dimension Data has been doing some great work for us around SQL Consolidation. They are holding an updated Techspresso session covering the topic. See below: https://techspresso.didata.com.au/Techspresso/Melbourne/MLB_2009_05_27.htm Lower Your Database Costs with SQL Server Database Consolidation Discover how your organisation can do more with less at Dimension Data’s SQL Server 2008 Consolidation Seminars.

Eliminating spam is good SEO .

On Friday night I attended my first ever London MiniBar meeting . It was great fun, I met lots of interesting folk, and had some very great pro and anti Microsoft conversations after my presentation about Windows Azure. The website sums up the event nicely: Your Monthly Face To Face.

If you are up for an early morning start, check out the upcoming webcast: This session will provide you with an sneak preview into the next release of SQL Server  codenamed ‘Kilimanjaro’ as well as project ‘Madison’ both of which will ship in the first half of CY 2010. This session will introduce at a high level the set of upcoming technologies in the areas of Self Service Business Intelligence, Application & Multi-Server Management and Scale-out Data Warehousing as well as several other key capabilities planned for the next release of SQL Server http://www2.eventsvc.com/academylive/register/95712536-abbb-4621-a484-33cb28bce69c Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Americas) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (Australian Times – you can do the conversion! http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/helpfulInfo.do?category=info&item=worldTime )

Je vous invite à participer à la Bewise Day Confarence 2009 qui aura lieu le mardi 21 avril à Toulouse dans les salons du stade du Stade Toulousain. Tous les ingrédients qui ont fait le succès de l’édition 2008 seront de nouveau là : L’implication, le professionalisme et la passion de toute l’équipe de Bewise Les sujets à la pointe : Surface, Azure, Team Sustem 2010 Les nombreux stands thématiques pour échanger entre spécialistes Une ambiance détendue et un cocktail final Alain Marty de Bewise et moi-même aurons le plaisir de présenter une session sur les nouveautés de Team System 2010 dont la bêta sera disponible prochainement.

“ Glen recently discovered that by keeping his application’s EXE empty and putting all the forms, code, resources, and data in managed DLLs, he reduced the amount of virtual memory his app uses inside its slot while at the same time taking advantage of memory outside the slot in the 1 GB shared memory area ” Read more about this very interesting finding at Rob Tiffany’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/robtiffany/archive/2009/04/09/memmaker-for-the-net-compact-framework.aspx