Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at TechEd Israel 2008. It was a great experience!

My Session went very well, if I do say so myself. I talked about controlling your database lifecycle with data dude.

In any case, if you were in my talk, I’d love to hear your comments (good or bad!) about it so that I can either feel good about it, or get better for next time.

Thanks to everyone that wake up for the talk – it was very well attended despite the time (9:00 AM after the midnight party…).

You can download here slides and demo:

Tags: Events, Lectures, Team System 2008, TechEd Israel 2008, VSTS DB Pro

Next week I’ll give a session at TechEd 2008 In Eilat, Israel. The session will introduce you how you can control your database changes and integrate it into your agile development methodology.

Do you want to control your database changes?

Do you want to test your database with unit test and even run static analysis on it?

Do you want better life and easier deployment of database schema changes to production database?

If one of your answers is YES, come to hear me.

Session Details:

• Session Name: ALM403: Control your Database Lifecycle with Data Dude
• Level: 400
• Time: 8/4/2008, 9:00 AM
• Location: Hilton Hotel, Ofir-Adom Hall

Session’s Agenda:

• What is Data Dude?
• Data Dude Features
• Test Your Database!
• Build & Deploy (MSBuild & Team Build)
• Case Study: nuconomy
• Q & A
• Summary

Microsoft opened up the meetings application at http://www.face2facemeeting.com/teched/. If you want to meet me and talk with me on development, WCF, LINQ, ALM or anything else – contact me! I’ll be glad to see you!

Meet you there…

Tags: Events, Lectures, MSBuild, Team Build 2008, Team System 2008, VSTS DB Pro

I was a little slow getting onto Twitter. I don’t know if it has much to offer me, but I want to try…

My main interests in Twitter are:

• Networking
• Promoting content
• Find new readers to my blog – gain a New Audience

My big question is how do I get people to follow me on Twitter…I admit it. I hesitated to sign up for Twitter. For now I think its a waste of time, but I’m patient. I promise to publish a post after few month of using this service to share with you what I discovered from using Twitter. I hope that it’ll be proved to be a wise choice.

BDW, my Twitter page is: http://twitter.com/maordp

Tags: Blog, Networking, Twitter

As you know, I will be presenting a presentation in TechEd 08 Israel.  Microsoft opened up the meetings application at http://www.face2facemeeting.com/teched/.

If you are attending TechEd 08 Israel , you can set an appointment with me, by using this application.

To find me there navigate to the Find Participants screen and looking for ALM or מאור as keyword.

My presentation details:

• Name: ALM403: Control your Database Lifecycle with Data Dude
• Time: 8/4/2008, 9:00 AM
• Location: Hilton Hotel, Ofir-Adom Hall

I’m always happy to answer questions – so come meet me in Tech Ed, and let me know how you liked my presentation!

Tags: Events, Lectures, Team System 2008, TechEd Israel 2008, VSTS DB Pro

As I posted earlier, I’ll speak at the next Tech-Ed in Eilat (6-8 April 2008). This is a great honor for me!

My session will be about MSBuild & VSTS for Database Professional.

The session is title less for now…. If you have any idea – please send it to me.

In order to give you a great presentation, help me to decide about it’s content:

• Do you have any unanswered questions around VSTS for Database Professionals?
• What do you like most and least about VSTS for Database Professionals?
• Do you have any stories you would be willing to share if you used VSTS for Database Professionals?

The next days are critical… I’ll choose a title and announce the session’s agenda. If you have any suggestions, thoughts, advices,wish list, feedbacks or anything – comment it here or send me and email please.

Thanks!

Tags: Events, Team System 2008, TechEd Israel 2008, VSTS DB Pro

Yesterday I presented at DevAcademy II event – an annual developers event organized by Microsoft Israel. It was a great event and highly-professional. I really enjoyed it.

A big thanks to Microsoft Israel for the technical and logistical planning and execution of this event.  Both speakers and attendees commented it was great and professional.

I’ll post later the download link of my presentation and demos -  DEV215: Integrating Databases Into ALM.

See you in the next event!

Photos – Thanks to Mr. Adi Avnit.

Tags: Events, Lectures

Cross posted from: http://blog.maordavid.com

Well, October was an interesting month. I wrote 30 posts, and these are the 5 posts you mostly interested:

1. Query XML using XLINQ – How to query XML data using XLinq.
2. C# Coding standards guideline – a guideline which was written by Juval Lowy.
3. Linq to XML – Adding,Updating and Deleting data – How to add,update and delete XML data using Linq.
4. I Search with Google’s experimental – new from Google Labs: Experimental search. I explain there what is it and how to use it.
5. Reset autonumber (IDENTITY) column in SQL Server – How to reset the autonumber – identity column in a table.

That is my review of October posts. Comments, suggestions and links to things you think I should be talking about always welcome.

Thanks for reading!

Tags: Blog, Networking

Do you want to know how VSTS for database professionals helps you to take control on your database change? or how you can ensure you software quality? How can you write and execute unit tests for your database objects?

You can get the answers and even more details and great features in the next Developers Conference here in Israel – Developer Academy 2.

I will be giving a there a session about VSTS for database professionals. If you work with databases then you will want to see the new capabilities offered by the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System from Microsoft. In this session, you will learn how this product will change the way you work with databases forever; you will get a look at how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is used to help with Database development, Database Unit Testing, Database Refactoring, Code-Analysis for Database and Database deployment.

If you want to see more, or you have a question – post a comment.

See you there!

Tags: Events, Lectures

I am really excited. I notified that the opening page of Microsoft Israel mention my post about query XML using XLinq.

It’s great!

Tags: Blog, Networking

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Tags: Blog, Networking