As I write this post I’m sat on the train back from the UKUUG Spring Conference Manchester, getting a fascinating insight into the world of asset finance sales from the passenger sitting opposite me.

Highlights of the conference were:

• Spending time with some of the DevOps crew – R.I. Pienaar, Kris Buytaert, and Patrick Debois.
• Co-presenting ‘Hudson hit my Puppet with a Cucumber’ with Patrick. (above) It was hard to rehearse (what with living in difference countries and all) but I enjoyed it once the adrenalin kicked in and the nerves relaxed. Dialogue is interesting. With an audience, and with a co-presenter. I’d like to explore more ways to interact with an audience than to drone at them.
• Manchester.
• Kris giving me an ‘Everything is a FSCKing DNS problem’ Tshirt – thanks Kris!
• Hearing about the process of creating an Ubuntu LTS releases from Thierry Carrez of Canonical. We discussed the pain of building Java and Ruby software for a distrinution afterwards. I hope people realise how much work distro maintainers go to! I met a one-time commitrer for the JPackage project – they confirmed what a PITA it was back then before Sun allowed people to distribute Java.
• Kris Buytaert and Andrew Stribblehill‘s MySQL scaling talks.
• The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud presentation was interesting. Not sure I’d want to use it in production, but for in-house test environment use it might be great.

UKUUG attracts some seriously talented people. It’s a small conference (north of 100 people), but that’s the way I like them.

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