Goals – The end of one year, start of another

Just about a year ago, I talked about the importance of setting goals for yourself, both personally and professionally, making sure they’re lofty enough to challenge you, and making them public in order to hold yourself accountable.  It’s hard to believe a year has passed already, but here we are, and it’s time to see [...]

June 25, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Professional Development  10 Comments

Blogging Tools: BlogDesk Review

As a blogger, you have several options available to you when it comes to writing posts.  You can write them online, directly inside whatever platform you’re using, be it WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, etc.  If you prefer to write posts offline, you can use a text editor like Word or WordPad for the writing process, and [...]

April 30, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Non-SQL Stuff, Professional Development  No Comments

#meme15 – Why Do You Blog?

Jason Strate (blog|@StrateSQL) is starting a new blog meme: #meme15.  The overall topic of #meme15 will be social networking, obviously something that’s getting a lot of attention these days, so there should be plenty to write about.  For the inaugural #meme15 post, the subject is blogging, specifically: why do you blog and why did you [...]

December 15, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Professional Development  No Comments