Category: Conferences and Meetups
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SDC Presentation – Intro to Octopus Deploy
On Sunday, January 11th 2015 at 1:00pm, I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy at the Software Development Community (SDC) in Naperville, Illinois. I’ve attended a few of the SDC meetings and it’s a solid crowd. There have been interesting topics presented before so I hope I can make Octopus as interesting to others as it is to me. Since…
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Chicago ALM Users Group – Agile Metrics
Yesterday night I attended the Chicago ALM Users Group session on Agile Metrics, given by Doc Norton. It was a very interesting topic and a great presentation altogether. Rather than reiterate the subject itself, you can view a video that Doc has available on his blog. A big thank you to Angela Dugan (blog) for organizing the event and to…
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SDC Presentation – FermiLab Software Development
On Sunday, October 5th, I attended the Software Development Community’s (SDC) presentation on software development at FermiLab, presented by Dr. James Amundson. It was a fascinating look into the world of high performance computing and clustering. It’s my first time attending SDC which there was a good sized crowd and everyone seemed genuinely interested in the topic…
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Seattle. Is. Awesome.
For full disclosure, I am a Seahawks fan so I admit my bias. That said, one of the big reasons I love Seattle is the seafood. Well, “glorious” seafood would be more accurate. Let’s start with a recap of the day. The Seattle Code Camp was a lot of fun. It was a good sized crowd, I believe…
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Seattle Bound
This weekend I’ll be attending the Seattle Code Camp to present Octopus Deploy. While I’ve done several presentations before, I’m going to change the presentation by removing a lot of technical minutia and focusing in on the benefits, some configuration and a seamless deployment demo (as I’ve learned from prior experience). Each demo that I’ve…
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Update
August is usually a rough month for me. It’s the last month of the fiscal year at work so it’s review time. I’ve also had a nasty cold/infection/plague for the past four days. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last posted anything, but I’ve got quite a bit in the works regarding Octopus articles. In addition…
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Demo snafu and lessons learned
Last week I had an encore presentation of Octopus Deploy to the Chicago ALM Users Group. It was a good crowd who asked a lot of good questions and seemed sincerely interested in Octopus Deploy and what value it could deliver for them. My slides ran long as I’ve found out that I really re-iterate too…
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Encore presentation on Octopus Deploy for Chicago ALM Users Group
I had another Octopus Deploy presentation today in Chicago for the Chicago ALM Users Group. Big thanks to Angela Dugan (@OakParkGirl) for letting me ramble on for Octopus for well over the time alloted. Had some good questions from audience members and interaction as well. I tried changing some things around in the presentation and adding…
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ElasticSearch and Kibana
I had the pleasure of going to a work-sponsored Hack-A-Thon yesterday. It’s the first of many Hack-A-Thons (work sponsored or not) I’d like to attend. While the format was slightly different from other Hack-A-Thons that I’ve read about given that it was work sponsored, it was still a worthwhile experience. Initially I had thought I was going to…