Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

Yet another great reason to go to Southwest Fox (coming next month) - Steve Black will be speaking. As Doug says, Steve's sessions are always lively, thought-provoking and entertaining. He's speaking on Techniques and Niche Marketing - two topics he certainly knows well. Southwest still has about 70 openings left (25 of which are discounted) so be sure to book now if you plan on going. Doug Hennig: Steven Black Speaking at Southwest Fox 2011

Microsoft Aligning with ODBC - SQL Server Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs : As the SQL Team notes: "The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, Code Name “Denali,” will be the last release to support OLE DB. OLE DB will be supported for 7 years from launch, the life of SQL Server Code Name “Denali” support, to allow you a large window of opportunity for change before deprecation. We encourage you to adopt ODBC in any future version or new application development. Making this move to ODBC also drives more clarity for our C/C++ programmers who can now focus their efforts on one API." They forgot to mention "and make all of their efforts over the past few years wasted on supporting a technology that we would eventually kill" Microsoft's promotion of OLE DB over ODBC is similar to their enthusiasm behind WPF and Silverlight. WPF's Browser implementation reminds me of the old ActiveX Document technology - it looks like a Browser but it downloads a W...