We here in the IT community are clearly concerned about our weight. More specifically, we’re concerned about our weight going up and up like a growth chart for a high-transaction OTLP database. (SQL tie-in for ya, there.) Starting to move… We’re starting to do something about it. I know people in the SQL community on […]
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Content is King: Great (paraphrased) advice from TheOatmeal.com
TheOatmeal.com has provided the absolute best counsel regarding creativity vs marketing. The comic I’m talking about is entitled “How to get More Likes on Facebook“, but the advice applies to absolutely everything we do. For example: Panel 1, 2, & 4: Over-pimping your blog, product, or session (in any way) is deeply annoying. It turns people off […]
Speaker Issues: The Quandry of Double Submitting
This is in response to yesterday’s Twitter conversation, and subsequent blog by Eddie Wuerch, about submitting to more than one SQL event on the same date. Doubling down? It’s just not my bag, baby… I guess it never occurred to me that this would be such a problem: submitting to two SQL Saturdays at the […]