Really amazed by Expression Designer and Blend

I’ll be the first one to admit that I definetely am not a great web developer, never have been, and probably never will be either. So yes, in the past I have been using Frontpage, did my thing with ASP.NET (some very basic content development), played around with Flash for a bit, …. but what I have done previously is do some photo editing using Photoshop (even though that was long time gone too) …

So I wanted to come up with a new webdesign for my personal website http://www.dandyman.net, hoping that I would be able to get my hands-on Silverlight, try to embed this blog into it and so on …

In order words, just trying to get used to great technologies and products, and I have to admit …I love Expression Blend, and did some nice editing with Expression Designer too.

Wait until I finally get my hands on Silverlight … I love the animation and storyboard stuff a lot …. but when I really get my hands on it …I know I will get really excited.

More to come!

And again you start to wonder

And again you start to wonder what’s been keeping you so busy and away from active blogging.

Anyways, I think it’s about time to get things going again, with some cool things coming up in the future, around SQL upgrades, some of the cool Windows 7 stuff and much more to come.

Just give me the time and probably a couple of weeks to brainstorm.

You’ll find me on facebook.

Greetz,
Dandy Weyn

SQL Best Practices – Techdays

Today in my session at Techdays 2009 I will present on Policy Based Management.
In the demo I show Policy best practices and will for sure get asked about the ‘Policy Files’ that I used as demos to implement best practices.

Here is the link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123720

It’s official ..Techdays 2009 – Belgium ..I’ll be there

I couldn’t miss Techdays in Belgium … so I decided to do a last-minute-confirmation, and will be presenting:
Consolidation and Optimization Best Practices: SQL Server 2008 and Hyper-V

Can’t wait to be back in Belgium and have a couple of beers!

and all of a sudden you start to wonder ….

So all of a sudden you start to realize and wonder ..
That after more than a year that this blog has remained untouched .. life was kind of passing by on me …

And so many things that are so sweet about having a passion for technology.
So as I walked into Certification Study area at Techready 8 (Microsoft’s internal readiness conference that is held twice a year in Seattle),
and noticed how many SQL Server 2008 certifications have been released within that year’s timeframe.

So I went for the ‘exams’ ..and all of a sudden … I am ‘certified’ on all SQL Server 2008 Certifications.