10th SoCal Code Camp

This weekend I attended the 10th SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp. That means I have a perfect score: I attended every single SoCal Code Camp.

The 10th one was held at USC in Los Angeles. Overall I attended 4 in Fullerton, 4 in San Diego and 2 in Los Angeles. On top of attending every single one I also presented at 3. The topic of my presentations was programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.

I am looking forward to attending the 11th SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton on January 30th and 31st 2010. Check out their website for more details and to register. See you there.

Fusion-io

Fusion-io did it again: they broke another record. They achieved an amazing 1 TB/sec of sustained reads for their customer.
Fusion-io’s ioDrive Octal is amazing!

Their press release contains more details.

Windows 7 is out

Today Microsoft officially released Windows 7. Did you get your copy yet?

The CTP of Microsoft’s SQL Azure Database is out

The CTP of SQL Azure Database is available through Microsoft's website.

BarCamp LA 8

The 8th BarCamp LA will be happening on November 14th & 15th. Check out their website, Google Group or Twitter feed for more details.

Lightning Fast SSDs from Pliant

I would love to get my hand on a Lightning solid state drive from Pliant. I wonder what kind of performance boost our database would get from one or even several of their units. Pliant use 2 SAS ports in order to increase the throughput of their enterprise-class SSDs.

SoCal Code Camp

The SoCal Code Camp is coming to Los Angeles on 11/21/2009 and 11/22/2009.
If I counted correctly, this will be the 10th SoCal Code Camp. I attended the last 9 and presented at the last 3.
Go to http://www.socalcodecamp.com/ or http://www.lacodecamp.com/ to register for this amazing free community event.

24 hours of PASS

Did you register for the “24 hours of PASS” event yet? If not, go to http://24hours.sqlpass.org/ and do so.

Windows Vista SP2 is available

Microsoft just released service pack 2 for Windows Vista.

SQL Server 2008 SP1 is out

Microsoft just released Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008. You can download it here.