Matt Penner

I just found out about TechZulu because Geoffrey Emery is involved.  He ended up interviewing a lot of us at the SQL 2008 Firestarter event in Irvine, CA. 

 Swing on by as they have a lot of great interviews from developers and other contributers to technology.

I know that James Johson is really pulling for them to video our IE .Net User Group MVP event in July.  So, Geoffrey, Efren and the rest, come on and do it!

 Here’s a list of interviews from the Firestarter event (in no particular order – well maybe all except mine):

Matt Penner (your’s truly)
James Johnson (IE .Net UG President)
Lynn Langit (MS Developer Evangelist)
Joey Snow (IT Pro Evangelist)
Stephen Rose (MS MVP)

This is pretty sweet.  When Geoffrey Emery and I presented at the Microsoft SQL 2008 Fire Starter in Irvine we showed a lot of examples of viewing SQL 2008 spatial data in Microsoft Virtual Earth.  We did this primarily by grabbing the GML output from SQL 2008 and converting it to a GeoRSS feed, which Virtual Earth reads natively.

Using the Builder API we could write a routine to output directly in GeoRSS.

I’ll see if I can play with this later and give an example.

SQL 2008 is really starting to come together and it’s pretty exciting.

Isaac @ MSDN : Our Upcoming Builder API