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See consultingIceland has some pretty famous waterfalls, from Þórufoss and Skógafoss in Game of Thrones, to Háifoss in Stranger Things, to Dettifoss in Prometheus, and more. However, probably the most-photographed one is Seljalandsfoss, partially because of its easy access from the Ring Road, and partially because of, uh, Justin Bieber's video for I'll Show You. That video is also a pretty good intro to the greatest hits of Iceland's south coast.
We're discontinuing our apps (not the First Responder Kit scripts, just the apps), which means I'm laying off Richie Rump, my developer that's worked with me for the last decade.
Calling him "my developer" doesn't do justice to Richie's role here, and he's really humble, so I wanted to lay out the top 5 reasons you should hire him.
Way back in December of 2009, Adam Machanic published a blog post (archive) in which he invited database bloggers to participate in a new monthly event he called T-SQL Tuesday. Each month, he (or a blogger he picked) proposed a topic, and on that date, we'd all publish our blog posts at the same time. It was a fun way to get a variety of opinions about a topic.
I used to run live online classes all year round, and I really miss it. I've had such a good time at conferences lately, and I feel like it's time to bring the live stuff back. Plus I don't know about you, but I have a heck of a hard time paying attention to recorded…
