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   In about a week I will be transitioning from my current team (Data Integration) and role as a Data Warehouse Engineer to what we call the .NET Stack team.  It has been great expanding my Data Warehouse experience - I am more familiar with the Kimball method of designing data warehouses now (and even see a lot of similarities between the Kimball approach to Data Warehousing and the Object-Oriented world that much of the programming world uses).  I won't be sad to leave the ETL tool behind that we use here (Business Objects Data Integrator or DI) though.  For the last couple of months DI and I have been working together with a very loose truce - I promise not to curse it too much if it promises not too crash or do otherwise crazy things.  My co-workers have been great to work with and I will miss sitting with them on a daily basis - a fun group to work with.

  In my new position on the .NET Stack team I will be working on defining, developing, and integrating various technologies and concepts that the .NET development teams working with the different Church departments can use to be more productive, effective, and efficient.  This will allow me to be back involved with Team System/Team Foundation Server like I was at Intel which I am very excited about.  I will also be spending time with WCF, WPF, nHibernate, Entity Framework, LINQ, and a lot of the other .NET technologies out there.  Should be a fun and challenging task - looking forward to it!

Note: I use this blog to post both Personal and Technical articles - for a technical only feed use the following URL - http://bryanandnoel.spaces.live.com/category/technology/feed.rss - for a family only feed use the following URL - http://bryanandnoel.spaces.live.com/category/family/feed.rss

E and I headed out yesterday on a daddy daughter date.  We got tickets through the Cougar Club to a BYU baseball game and so we left Noel home to enjoy time alone and we headed down to Provo to watch some baseball.

Miller Park is a nice stadium - it is kind of unique as it has the softball field on one side of the stadium concourse and the baseball stadium on the other.  I taught E about first, second, and third base along with home "base".  We ate hot dogs and enjoyed the game for about an hour and a half or so.  We then headed over to the Marriott Center where our car was parked, put our blanket on the grass, read books, and ate Cheez-Its (sp?) and Twizzlers.  It was a lot of fun.  We did have to make a trip back to Miller Park for E to go to the bathroom.  As we went into the boys bathroom she said, "Dad, this is the boys bathroom."  I informed her that I couldn't go into the girls bathroom and so this was the best we could do.  She responded with, "But Dad it is going to stink!"  Turns out that all the stalls were occupied and rather than wait for them to open up and risk her clamoring loudly as we went in that it stunk we went hunting for another option.  They have a couple of family type bathrooms it turns out and we used one of those so it all turned out good!  It was pretty funny!

Here are a couple of pictures of us chilling on the grass at the Marriott Center.  We finished off our date by stopping by Mark and Stacey's to say hi to E's cousin E.  It was so much fun for E that with 5 minutes on our way home she feel asleep on me!  Seriously it was a great time - I can't wait for us to do it again!