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• MSDN Subscription Giveaway #1

  As many people know or have heard MVPs have come into possession of three Visual Studio Ultimate MSDN subscriptions (minus the support and magazine offer). These subscriptions are provided to us to distribute and help drive adoption of the tools. These Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:43 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Excel Monkey T-Shirt Contest Entry

  Earlier this month Rob Collie posted a contest to come up with a design for an Excel Monkey T-Shirt contest . Rob took a little heat for making an Excel Monkey comment during a webcast, which I might add had just over 500 people – how awesome is that? Read More... Posted Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:22 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Twitter RSS Feed available

  Just wanted to let everyone know that you can subscribe to my Twitter updates by accessing the RSS feed. I have included a link on the top right on my blog main page that you can use to subscribe to. Nice feature, so now you don’t have to miss out on Read More... Posted Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:16 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest starts 2/22

  Do you know or want to learn Silverlight or WPF? Well, now is your chance. Put something together on your own or with a group effort and submit it for the contest that Magenic has posted here - Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest . Contest is open Read More... Posted Friday, February 19, 2010 7:06 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Magenic is hiring – BI Architect, SharePoint Developer, and more

  Just thought I would put this out there in case someone is looking for a job or a career change. Magenic is a National System Integrator Partner with Microsoft and has five offices located in the United States. Magenic is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:50 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• New PASSMN web site

  The Minnesota SQL Server User Group site has now moved over to the Chapters area hosted by the National PASS web site. Our new site can still be accessed with the http://mnssug.org address. Now there will be certain content that you will be able to view Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:02 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Announcing PASSMN 2010 Executive Board Roles

  This week the new PASSMN board members got together and the roles were assigned. Here are the positions for the upcoming year: Lara Rubbelke – Microsoft Liaison Dan English ( Magenic ) – Chair Jason Strate (Digineer) – Director of Program Development Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:54 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Magenic Featured on .NET Stories – Code Master

  Microsoft has a new site for .NET Stories where they are doing a major ad campaign for the .NET framework and Magenic is one of the featured stories for the work that was done at Bally’s fitness. Check out the video and read the full story here – Magenic’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:07 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Podcast available now by Odiogo

  Today I was checking out a new blog posting, New Features in Performancepoint Services 2010 , Difference between Performancepoint Server 2007 and Performancepoint Services 2010 , that was talking about new features in PerformancePoint Services and I noticed Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:21 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• PASSMN 2010 Executive Board

  I am pleased to announce the new Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) 2010 Executive Board: Mark Rocco, Long Term Care Group Gordon D'Souza, Solution Design Group, Inc. Jason Strate, Digineer* Eric Strom, Rels* Dan English, Magenic * * Incumbant We Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:47 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• PASSMN Executive Board 2010 Nominations is now open

  The Minnesota SQL Server User Group is accepting nominations for the 2010 Executive Board. If you are interested in running for a position on the board where you can help steer the direction of the Minnesota chapter of PASS then go ahead and submit your Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:44 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• National PASS Board of Directors Nominations is Now Open

  The 2009 elections process has kicked off! The PASS Board of Directors is currently looking for candidates to run for the Board's 2010/2011 term. If you want to make a significant contribution to the SQL Server community while gaining major leadership Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:16 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Yahoo to replace search with Bing:)

  Looks like they have finally reached a partial agreement after months of negotiating. So in about 3 to 6 months Yahoo will be utilizing Bing search behind the scenes. Guess they are trying to cut into Google’s search which handles more than 70% of the Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:38 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 is now available

  Just a follow-up from my previous posting, Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 coming soon , looks like SP2 is now available. SP1 is a prerequisite, but Windows Server 2008 was shipped with SP1. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:09 AM from Dan's space | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics

• Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 coming soon

  It appears that the SP2 should be available really soon now, maybe even today or tomorrow. I see that the release notes were just made available on the Microsoft downloads today. With the release of Office 2007 SP2 (and there is a SP2 for the Office Servers Read More... Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:30 AM from Dan's space | 0 Comments Filed under: News and politics