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Do you know any geeks in Auckland who you can email to get some viral marketing going? I'd love for this last Auckland Girl Geek Dinner event of the year to be a really good one, so the more people we get at the event the better. Also, if you or anyone you know has a prize or some sponsorship money you can spare for this event, please get in touch with me. :-) Girl Geek Dinners present: "The Right Tool For The Job" and "How To Infuriate Architects And Please Project Sponsors" When: Thursday 27th November @ 6pm Where: The Drake Hotel, Victoria Park, Auckland Cost: $30 - includes dinner and drinks and great company Tickets: Buy online at www.girlgeekdinners.co.nz Thea Myers of Optimal Usability presents The Right Tool For The Job. Building usability into every project, whether you have a huge budget and all the time in the World, or a few days and a shoestring. This talk will include some good advice, practical tools, and links to more informat

If you have an interest in SQL then get yourself along to Wellington on the 6/7th December. G'wan, you know you wanna! http://www.dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=120

Conquering the World one server at a time.... it's just a little bit addictive. Link to Travian

We're under way! Auckland SQL Server user group coming to a boardroom near you soon. :) We have a website, courtesy of Dave , the addy is www.aucklandsql.com . The re are also some funky new email addresses for Dave and me - dave@aucklandsql.com and amanda@aucklandsql.com , feel free to email either of us with any questions about the group. The current plan for the first meeting (subject to change if speakers can't make this date): 6pm, Wednesday November 19th Fronde (Level 7, Fronde House, 131 Queen Street) Sessions: Introduction to SQL Server 2008 (Dave Dustin / Wolters Kluwer Health) To Be Confirmed (Pat Martin / Microsoft New Zealand) SQL Server 2008 Certification (Amanda Jackson / Fronde) Pat's session and abstracts still to be nailed down. Hopefully next 48 hours.

Some good things heading our way SQL-wise. Hopefully Dave Dustin and myself will get the Auckland group up and running a.s.a.p. and plans are afoot for a possible SQL code camp later in the year. Emails are hot footing around the ether as I type...

I work for Fronde Systems in Auckland as part of the S+S, SaaS team .   Fronde has recently been appointed Google’s first partner in New Zealand for the Google Security, Compliance and eDiscovery products as well as Google Apps.  Hopefully this means I'll be able to get my paws out to play with some Google Apps though as we're specialists in transaction processing I'm wondering if it will be the security & transaction guys who get all the fun.  Guess I'll find out when I get back from speaking at TechEd Australia. Fronde had other good news last week as well.  We won the Microsoft Partner Software Solution of the year award for 2008.  Pretty spiffing eh?

So far I'm impressed with Google Chrome.  I love simple designs and I'm particularly liking the garbage collection and process handling.  Very neat.  It harks back to the days when I was learning C & C++ and I remember these being standard requirements when writing code - tidy up after yourself, avoid creating memory leaks etc...  I take it that previous browser developers either forgot this or thought it didn't matter. I'm also wondering if they've read my TechEd talk on complexity where I talked about leaving cool stuff out so that the first iteration of your software is a workable, robust solution... maybe not, that was yesterday afternoon and I'm pretty sure the Google devs don't have a time machine. :-) I had a quick look at ESI as well and this is looking like an interesting thang that deserves a more in depth look.  More info on how that goes later on...