Category: Conferences and Meetups
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ThatConference 2016 – Microservices Minus the Hype: How to Build and Why
For my first session on Microservices, Mark Heckler (@mkheck) was delivering the presentation. I’ve never directly built or worked with microservices but I believe my future projects will involve microservices in one form or another – and preferably sooner rather than later. I felt compelled to visit this topic as I’ve always thought of microservices as…
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ThatConference 2016 Wrap Up
It’s been a real fun experience so far at ThatConference. This is my first time and while I’m pretty excited by all the topics/presentations, I also did an Open Space session on Wednesday on Octopus Deploy & deployment automation. This is totally different from the notion of a presentation. An Open Space session seems more like an open…
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ThatConference, deep dives and more
It’s been way overdue since my last post but rest assured, things are happening behind the scenes. First and foremost, I am in attendance ThatConference! I’m very excited to go this year as I’ve read about it for the past two years. There are quite a few sessions just jam packed over three days and I’ll…
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Upcoming presentation at Chicago ALM Users Group
I’ll be presenting tomorrow on Tuesday, November 3rd at Microsoft-Downers Grove 3025 Highland Pkwy, Ste 300, Downers Grove from 6:00pm to 9:00pm for the Chicago ALM Users Group. I won’t be covering Octopus Deploy basics but more rather more intermediate to advanced topics such as customization and automation with .NET and PowerShell. The primary goal is to…
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Chicago Code Camp 2015
Great turnout this year at the Chicago Code Camp. I saw a few familiar people and met some interesting new people as well. My presentation was going well right up to the point of where my wireless connection within the room dropped like a rock. Other people offered their remote hotspots but alas, it wasn’t…
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SDC – "The S.O.L.I.D. Principles of OO and Agile Design" by Uncle Bob Martin
I’ve never seen Uncle Bob Martin before, but word of his presentations are nothing but exemplary. Last week on Wednesday the 15th, I attended Uncle Bob Martin’s presentation on The SOLID Priciples of OO and Agile Design at the Software Developers Community. There are speakers and then there are “Bob Martin”-level speakers. Engaging, intriguing and…
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Chicago Code Camp 2015 – Octopus Ahoy!
I’ll be talking about Octopus Deploy at this year’s Chicago Code Camp on Saturday, April 18th at the Illinois Institute of Technology (starts at 8a to 5p). You can view all sessions here. I attended last year’s camp and it was really great. Lots of interesting speakers and topics. I’ll be doing an intro to Octopus Deploy session (surprise,…
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Chicago ALM User Group – Infrastructure as Code and Automation with Chef and Azure
On Wednesday earlier this week, I attended the Chicago ALM User Group meeting on Chef and Azure by Matt Stratton. It was a really good presentation on not only Chef and infrastructure automation but also DevOps as well. For quite sometime, I’ve been on the fence about what tool to use to automate my virtual…