Joe Homnick is the principal owner of Homnick Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida.
He has been a featured speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed for eight years in America, Europe and Latin America, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), all Microsoft DevDays events and the SQL PASS Summit. Most recently Joe has been selected by Microsoft as a Metro trainer for SharePoint, Visual Studio, SQL Server, CRM and AX. He has delivered training for Microsoft on their Early Adopters program for these technologies throughout the US, Europe, South America, Australia, Canada and China.
Joe holds the designations of CPA, Microsoft Regional Director Ambassador, Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise, Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator and Business Intelligence Developer, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner.
He founded the Gold Coast Users Group http://GCUsersGroup.org which serves the South Florida area delivering Microsoft SQL Server, O/S and Developer knowledge to the community for over 15 years.
His previous professional experience includes being an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University and a Computer Audit Specialist for KPMG.
Check out his blog at http://JoeBlog.Homnick.com and network with him on FaceBook, Twitter and LinkdIn.
TechTalk
30 Sep 2009
Small Company Opportunity with Free WebsiteSpark and Web Installer 2.0
Joe Homnick writes
"...launching the Web Installer you are given the opportunity to install the Express Editions of Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 up to date with SP1. Not only are the Express Editions available through the installer, but it also sets up your local IIS with different extensions and includes things like Model Viewer Controller (MVC), PHP drivers and Silverlight Tools projects. Finally..."
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SQL Server
31 Aug 2009
SQL Azure First Impressions
Joe Homnick writes
"...finally gotten around to playing with my SQL Azure token and here are the first impressions. The big promise of SQL Azure over its predecessor SQL Data Services was that you would be able to work with a cloud database very much like you would with an on-premise one. Sure enough..."
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Office System
03 Aug 2009
SharePoint 2010 Features Sneak Peek
Joe Homnick writes
"...three videos are broken down between a general overview, for the IT Pro and for the Developer feature set...Really cool integration between Visual Studio and SharePoint are shown...Something that is very encouraged is that I heard that SharePoint Online will be almost 100% feature compatible with..."
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