>March 1, 2014 - A Great Saturday
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>Got up at 7 AM, drove from Harrisburg to Quinnipiac for SQL Saturday in Connecticut. Listened to nothing but Coltrane and Miles in my car.
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>Did a session, made a possible client contact, watched a few sessions, and had the best chocolate milkshake in my life at a diner whose name I forget.
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>Then drove back down to NYC at about a gazillion miles and hour, to meet my jazz buddies for a late dinner at some bistro (most expensive cheeseburger I've ever had) and watch some jazz sets at the Village Vanguard (attached)
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>Left NYC at 1:30 AM, spiked up on Coca Cola and coffee and my third Five Hour Energy drink of the day, drove back home, got home at 5 AM.
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>From a line in "The World According to Garp"....Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day
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>I LOVE NY!!!!

March 1? Did this mispost?

You will probably be disappointed in me that I passed on an opportunity to hear Mike Zwilling speak at the Dev Interactions conference in Orlando yesterday. I was tempted but stuck to the AngleBrackets track for the most part -- JavaScript, jQuery, and related JS libraries like Angular, Breeze, Bootstrap, and Gulp. Boy, does that stuff change fast. I am still new at it so it was like drinking water from a fire hose at times but I learned a lot. I did have the chance to see two living legends, Douglas Crockford and Ward Bell.

One of the few "other" sessions I attended (apart from the keynotes, which were disappointingly skewed to Microsoft execs pushing Microsoft technologies -- they do that to you when you take their money to be a main conference sponsor) was one on "Stored Procedures Best Practices" by Kevin Kline. The database guy, not the actor ;-) Good stuff.