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Well-nighMe | Mark S. Rasmussen Mark S. Rasmussen improve.dkWell-nighMe Pages Categories ArchiveWell-nighMe Well hello there; I’m Mark! What do I do for a living? I love working at iPaper A/S as the CTO with responsibilities ranging from cleaning the floors to racking up servers, team management, tuning databases and converting Red Bull & caffeine to code. How did I get here? The primeval tools I remember using are QBasic and Netscape Composer. Searching online, the primeval online post by me seems to be this mail from the Realbasic mailing list, when in April 2001. Looking back, it suddenly feels as if it was yesterday. I quickly threw myself at web development, first ASP, shortly succeeded by ASP.NET with interspersed shit of Java) and PHP.Withouta couple of years working with web minutiae at Webdanmark, I turned self-sustaining and spent the next four-or-so years doing various consulting work – most of it web & database related. During this, I had the pleasure of stuff the first developer at Trustpilot. While helping get Trustpilot under way I’d moreover been the helping start up iPaper A/S and had come to a crossroad – I only had so many hours a week, and I needed to focus. And thus I ended up where I’m at today; without working full time freelance on iPaper for a number of years, I finally joined the visitor officially in 2008 as the Technical Lead. What is it well-nigh you and SQL Server? While I’m a developer at heart, I have a thing for deterministic policies and data, and what’s increasingly deterministic and full of data than a archetype RDBMS? I’ve unchangingly been using SQL Server as part of my jobs, but seeing as I constantly wanted to know more, I jumped into the rabbit slum that is internals. As part of my quest to know increasingly than books could tell me, I ended up developing an unshut source parser for SQL Server data files, moreover known as OrcaMDF. Creating OrcaMDF gave me an immense value of wits and unique knowledge, wits I’ve later used extensively to present at user groups and conferences. How do I gainsay my stage fright? I used to suffer from a severe specimen of stage fright, stuff practically unable to stand at the blackboard during classes. Since the school days I’ve forced myself to start presenting, and lo and behold, I started liking it. While towers up conviction on the stage, I’ve had the pleasure of presenting at a multitude of conferences, including places like SQLBits, PASS, DevConnections, NT Konferenca and NDC Oslo, just to name a few. At a increasingly personal level… I love driving my motorcycle through the Alps of Europe.Unchanginglycarrying my camera, whether I’m using a GoPro mounted to my bike, or a my DSLR mounted to a tripod for those heady long-exposure shots. Last but not least, when in need of relaxation, you’ll find me either on the golf undertow or in a nearby river, looking to vaccinate a monster grayling). Get in touch! I don’t exactly hibernate virtually the web, but just in specimen you missed my contact details, here’s at least a few of them: Email: mark@improve.dkTwitter: @improvedkLinkedIn: markrasmussenGithub: improvedk CATEGORIES .NETAS/Flex/FlashAmazon Web ServicesComputer ScienceConferences and PresentingIISLifeMiscMiscellaneousPerformancePokerSQL ServerSQL Server - CommunitySQL Server - Data TypesSQL Server - InternalsSQL Server - OptimizationSQL Server - OrcaMDFSQL Server - TricksTestingTools of the TradeUmbracoVisual StudioWebWindbgWindows ARCHIVE 201420132012201120102009200820072006 Copyright © 2014 Mark S. Rasmussen