first post!

Oh, wait a minute. This isn't slashdot. Regardless, this is my first post on my shiny new blog.

Who:

I'm Stuart Updegrave; I work as a developer in the Business Intelligence team for Microsoft.com. I've been working at Microsoft for over 7 years now, as a Web Developer, Dev Manager and most recently SDE. I consider myself pretty competent in most web-dev skills targeting IIS and IE -- ASP/ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, JScript, DOM, [insert TLA here]. Before coming to MS, I was a big VRML geek for a while, used to be pretty active on comp.lang.javascript.

What:

Currently I spend a fair bit of time working with SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. I've been using it since beta1, mostly developing reports using the Report Designer tools integrated into Visual Studio.NET 2003. Recently I've been working more with RDL generation, accessing the ReportingService() web service interface, and such.

Why:

I'll be using this space to call out some of the things I discover during the course of my SRS adventures, in hopes that someone out there might find them useful.

Coming soon, a few words on FindItems.