PatHelland's WebLog
Hello, Friends! Lots has happened since I last blogged. For almost two years, I've worked on Cosmos,...
Date: 09/30/2011
Sorry I haven’t been blogging for a while. Last Fall, I switch to work on Bing Infrastructure and...
Date: 05/13/2010
So, about a year and a half ago, I was working in Developer Division and there were lots of...
Date: 04/13/2009
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I am very impressed with a recent paper from my friends at...
Date: 04/10/2009
My friends at the UC Berkeley RAD Lab have written a wonderful paper on Cloud Computing. It can be...
Date: 02/20/2009
I know this is a LONG time ago but these slides were never made public before and there's some...
Date: 01/20/2009
So, I'm starting to figure out how to put stuff up on Windows Live Skydrive and I have beginning out...
Date: 01/19/2009
Sunday, January 4th through Wednesday, January 7th was the Conference on Innovative Database...
Date: 01/09/2009
I just submitted the final (photo-ready) version of a new paper called "Building on Quicksand" to...
Date: 12/12/2008
Mark Dunn of .NET Rocks asked me to do an interview at TechEd EMEA last week. We chatted about one...
Date: 11/20/2008
This was filmed at TechEd NA in Orlando last June. I received the link to the video today. It was a...
Date: 11/11/2008
Well, those folks at TechEd EMEA continue to be nice to me. Looks like I get to do four talks for...
Date: 10/16/2008
So, one morning a few weeks or so ago, my colleague, Ruwen Hess, stuck his head in my door and...
Date: 09/01/2008
Here is a first draft of a new presentation. I gave it a couple of months ago just after TechEd and...
Date: 08/10/2008
One last personal post and then I'll get to the work stuff. Last Friday we got off the ship......
Date: 08/07/2008
Since I returned to Microsoft in March of 2007, I've worked in the Developer Division on a project...
Date: 07/23/2008
A while back, the fine folks at TechEd EMEA sent me a link to the video of me presenting last...
Date: 05/02/2008
I've been busy with a number of things; one of them is helping to prepare for the official Tribute...
Date: 04/25/2008
Some friends of mine told me that they don't have Powerpoint 2007 (gasp!) and so it was impossible...
Date: 01/11/2008
In retrospect, we had a good time on our first week of vacation... but we would have had a better...
Date: 11/25/2007
Oh, my, it was moving!! I used to own a large power boat and have had it in 15 foot seas. Then, I...
Date: 11/25/2007
Naples! The evening cruise had been quiet and we were back at it with the tour busses. Our new...
Date: 11/25/2007
After months and months of talking about our second anniversary in Rome, we decided not to go after...
Date: 11/25/2007
Warning! There's nothing in this blog post but "what we did on vacation"... no computer stuff. So,...
Date: 11/25/2007
"The Irresistible Forces Meet the Movable Objects" -- Closing General Session at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona
The big presentation for me at TechEd was the closing general session. I did an entirely new talk...
Date: 11/25/2007
On Wednesday, November 7th, I presented "Data on the Inside versus Data on the Outside" at TechEd....
Date: 11/25/2007
Presentation of "Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion" at TechEd EMEA at Barcelona.
On Tuesday, November 6th, I presented "Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion"...
Date: 11/25/2007
On Monday, November 5th, I presented a talk I had written before leaving Microsoft. The first...
Date: 11/25/2007
As many of you know, Jim Gray has been missing at sea since January 28th, 2007. Jim went on a day...
Date: 11/22/2007
OK, this blog entry fits into the category of obsessive-compulsive... Every time I hear somebody say...
Date: 08/23/2007
My good friend, Harry Pierson, told me the formatting of my last post sucked and was a pain to read....
Date: 08/20/2007