Category: Events

January 7

Today, I got my evaluation results for my presentation during UKOUG last year. Overall, I am not unhappy.  I am a little bit perfectionist minded, but for a first conference presentation, my overall feeling matched the scores given.

The score range the attendees had to / could use where:

The range:

Main scores are:

  1. Poor,
  2. Below Average,
  3. Average,
  4. Good,
  5. Very Good,
  6. Excellent.

The Length of Session scores are:

  1. Too short, 
  2. Just right,
  3. Too long.

The verdict 

October 19

Today I got an e-mail from Juliette Nuijten (Natural Join B.V.) alerting me that Toon Koppelaars will present on 29 November 2007, a mini seminar in Amstelveen Toon Koppelaars, Lex de Haan: Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals (The Netherlands), based on his and Lex de Haan‘s book: Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals.

Unlucky enough, I will not be able to attend and I am sure this will be an very interesting mini seminar.

This is not only because Toon is a very gifted and inspiring speaker, but also because the seminar will present a very useful practical methods and theories applicable to us relational practitioners. The content of this seminar, which can also be found on the website of Ivan Pellegrin (www.maestridellarte.com) that organized this event, will have the following sections:

October 8