Archive for August 2009
Steel City SQL August Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 25th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for the August meeting of Steel City SQL featuring Dean Richards, Senior DBA at Confio Software, presenting on Wait-Time Based SQL Server Performance Management. Using Wait Time Analysis and Wait Types is a newer method for tuning SQL Server instances. As a result, there is often confusion on exactly what the data means. The issue typically centers around the fact the wait time data is analyzed at the wrong level or the collected wait time data is not detailed enough. This presentation will focus on these problems and review several real-life case studies of using SQL Server Wait Type data coupled with Wait-Time based performance analysis to solve the most difficult performance related issues.
TechMixer University Call For Speakers
TechMixer University is ON! The date has been set, mark your calendars for Tuesday October 13, 2009. This year TMU will be held at the Cahaba Grand on Highway 280, close to the Interstate 459 interchange.
General registration will open soon, but we are pleased to announce our Call for Speakers is now open. If you have an interest in presenting a session, please download our speaker submission form (right click and “Save Target As”). Once filled out please e-mail us the form at tmuspeaker@gmail.com. The form is in DOCX, however if you need a text or other format please e-mail us at the same address.
We are looking for speakers in all areas, including .Net, Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), Open Source Development (Ruby, Java, PSP, etc), Project Management, Sharepoint, Hardware, and more.
The call for speakers will close on September 20th, last year TMU had over 400 attendees and we expect a big growth this year so don’t hesitate, this is a great opportunity.
If your business is interested in sponsoring this event, please e-mail us and we’ll contact you with details. We limit the number of sponsors, so if you want to be one of the few to get in front of a large crowd please get in touch with us soon.
Update: Due to requests from interested speakers who did not get word until late, we have elected to extend the deadline for speaker submissions. Our new deadline will be Monday, September 28th at midnight. Spread the word, and don’t forget to register at http://www.techmixeruniversity.com
BSDA – REALBasic for August 13, 2009
This month Dennis Wynn will present on REALBasic. He will be coding in REALBasic with the intention of being able to distribute this application across multiple platforms. REALBasic will allow for the same application to run under Windows, Linux, and/or MAC OS with little to no modifications.
Dennis will explore the ability to tie hardware to software through some simple serial ports. He will use a serial base barcode scanner to read in product barcodes for part verification. Once the part has been validated, a PASS/FAIL signal will be sent to the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) to perform further part processing. In his example, the signal will simply turn on a GREEN/RED LED to indicate the status of the product.
As usual the meeting will take place at New Horizons in Homewood, at 6:30 pm.
Rubyham Lunch Monday August 10th 2009
The next RubyHam meeting will be on Monday, Aug. 10 at SHIFTworkspace at 11:30am. Presentations will start at 12 noon.
SHIFTworkspace is located at 2308 2nd Ave N.
Kevin Russell will be presenting on acts_as_solr which provides full-text search for Rails.
Ben Wyrosdick will also be presenting fluffy, a gem which provides easy access to Amazon S3.
If you have anything you wish to present, please email the group.
Bring your lunch. There are a couple of spots nearby including the Urban Standard.
