About Us
Why use SqlJunkies or DotNetJunkies as names for community
Web sites? A Junkie is "one who has an insatiable interest or
devotion" and we are absolutely addicted to technologies and want to
feed other developer's addictions by spreading knowledge. The official launch
date of SqlJunkies.com for SQL Server developers is October 25, 2003 during the
opening day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) in Los
Angeles.
DotNetJunkies.com is a community
Web site for developers using the Microsoft .NET Framework. DotNetJunkies.com
has been online since July 2000.
SqlJunkies.com is promising to be
one of the largest information- and feature-packed SQL Server Web site
communities on the Internet today. SqlJunkies.com will be the community for
developers to come and learn about building solutions using Microsoft SQL Server
while being part of a collaborative community of peers.
SqlJunkies.com was created by the
founders of DotNetJunkies.com - Doug Seven and Donny Mack. As developers
ourselves, we have years of experience building successful online technology
communities because we understand what a technology-oriented community should
contain and what our members want.
Meet the Team
Doug Seven - Senior Consultant, Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
dseven@dotnetjunkies.com
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Doug Seven is a Microsoft Regional Director
and ASP.NET MVP with a proven track record in developing
and deploying high volume Web sites, such as DotNetJunkies.com and SqlJunkies.com. He is a charter
member of both the INTEA Speaker’s Bureau and the INTEA-LATAM
Speaker’s Bureau, speaking at user
groups and conferences around the country. Seven has co-authored five books related to the .NET
Framework:
ASP.NET Professional Secrets (Wiley),
Professional ASP.NET Security (Wrox),
Professional ADO.NET with VB.NET (Wrox),
Professional ADO.NET (Wrox),
Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET (Sams),
ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials & Code (Sams).
Doug's Blog: Doug Seven's .NET Blog
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Donny Mack - Senior Consultant
dmack@atomicconsulting.com
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Donny Mack is an Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and MCSD and has been in the computer industry for as long
as he remembers. He started his computer career at Microsoft as an ASP/COM
Support Engineer, where he met Doug Seven, his friend and
business partner. They quickly realized that while helping one person at a time
solving their programming issues was fun, helping a whole community would be
all the better so we quit Microsoft and started the world recognized Junkie brand.
Because we have always loved bleeding edge technologies we decided to invest
our time in this new technology coming out named .NET and started our first
website named CodeJunkies.NET; obviously since then we’ve had a few name changes
to better fit our target audience. Now a few years later we’re the largest .NET only
website on the internet today.
So why did we decide to start SqlJunkies, well we didn’t – SQL Server made us!
Nearly every application today uses some sort of database and for me, my favorite
is SQL Server. Many developers claim to know SQL Server, but she has many
mysteries and we decided that we’re going to expose them to the world and make
a great community doing it.
While I love working in the community and working with new technologies I also do
have a social life. I like going to computer conferences, reading technology
periodicals, buying new gadgets to play with, and watching the technology channel
on cable. That’s a lie, well kind of. I live in Manhattan so you know that I love going
to all the restaurants and pubs. I attend the occasional benefit, I love to travel, and
play with my puppies – Littles and Sume.
Mack has been a co-author on several books
on Microsoft's .NET Framework published by Sams Publishing and Wrox Press.
If you're interested he runs a blog here: Donny Mack's Blog
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