Introduction Earlier this month, David Woods decided to drop his MVP award. The move inspired some interesting comments and discussion among MVPs. David's points are: MVP Expertise Microsoft Technology Products Microsoft ''Listens'' Cost-Benefits for an MVP MVP Expertise After mentioning he's encountered MVPs who are not experts, David ...

There's a Session Preference Survey live at the TechEd North America 2011 website. I like this idea a lot: getting feedback from the Community! :{>

David Taylor! There were a lot of really great comments on the post titled A Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Seeding Card Giveaway Contest! The judging was completely subjective - just me reading the comments and making a call. One suggestion was apparently plagarized... bummer. All of the projects sound awesome and I hope those who commented will ...

I have a Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Seeding Card to give away. It's good for a year. Rather than just hand it out, I've decided to hold and judge a contest. So tell me - in the comments of this post - what cool project you would like to use the software you can access free for a year? Tell me what you think you can do - what you'd like to try. I'll ...

Woo hoo! There's another MSDN Roadshow coming to town 3 Mar 2010! G. Andrew Duthie (Blog - @devhammer) is co-presenting a 4-hour session on Azure and Windows 7 (among other topics) with David Isbitski (Blog - @thedavedev). I plan to be there! :{> Andy

Introduction  I just wrapped up an ETL With SSIS class in the Rochester, NY area and one of the students in the class pointed out ''You haven't blogged in over a week!'' He's right - I need to blog more and more often. I've been distracted with preparations to sell our house, releasing an e-book, writing the next volume in the ...