John Gallardo's Weblog : Personal

Where has John been?

jgalla — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:35:17 GMT

Ok, it has been a little while. But I have been pretty busy lately. His name is Christopher.

We have also been pretty busy locking down Katmai to get CTP6 (aka known as the "February CTP") out the door and working bugs. I recommend that people head over towards the "Katmai" forum on MSDN for Reporting Services if you have any questions. There are lots of people there willing to answer questions and otherwise help out.

So what now? I owe a part two post on some of the memory management stuff we are introducing in Reporting Services 2008. I'm getting all of the info put together now, and the post should be up shortly.

Changes

jgalla — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:42:00 GMT

Couple of changes since we shipped SQL Server 2005. I have moved from the Relational Engine team over to Reporting Services. Its interesting to see the product from a completely different end. At any rate, if you are actually reading this thing then you will probably notice chat move in that direction and see less XML specific content in here.

Peter Jackson to Exec Produce Halo movie!

jgalla — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:37:00 GMT

This one is making the rounds here at work. In case you don't recognize the name, he is the guy who made the Lord of the Rings movies.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/news/2005/1004-x05showcase.htm

Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Publishing for Xbox at Microsoft, also announced that triple Academy Award winners Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will serve as the executive producers of “Halo,” the upcoming feature film based on Microsoft’s phenomenally popular video game. This unique alliance between Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Microsoft, and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh promises a step forward in motion picture production. “Halo” will benefit from the experience and resources of the film studios, from Microsoft’s groundbreaking vision and from Jackson’s and Walsh’s creative sensibilities and expertise in both traditional filmmaking and the world of emerging digital technologies.

Interview with Jeff Minter about XBox 360 music visualizations

jgalla — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:52:00 GMT

Link

Strangely, one of the things I am looking forward to most for the XBox 360 is the inclusion of a real music visualizer. Frankly, since switching off WinAmp more than a few years ago I have been missing decent visualizations. The ones available for Media Player just don't cut it. There are some video's of what Minter is doing on XBox 360 floating around the web, and from what I have seen it looks absolutely awesome.

Is this thing on...

jgalla — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:11:00 GMT

Testing Testing...

Ok I guess we are on. My name is John Gallardo (clever that, it matches the title). As of today I have been working at Microsoft for just over 2 years as an SDET (Software Design Engineer in Test) in the SQL Server Engine team. Most of my work has been related to the new XML Datatype that we are introducing in SQL Server 2005. I spend most of the day working with things like XQuery, XML Schema and their interactions with the "core" relational engine in SQL Server.

At any rate, I hope that you find some of the information that I throw up here useful. I am going to try to update at least weekly and provide answers to common questions that I see floating around concerning the XML Datatype in SQL Server 2005, along with various other areas which I am interested in.