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Category Archives: Conferences

BCS Configuration Management 2012 Conference – Call for Papers

I recently joined the British Computer Society I also joined the BCS Configuration Management Group, and I’m now on the committee. To me it’s important to understand the place of CM on your project, especially as the landscape is changing so rapidly. That’s why I’m telling you about the call for papers for the conference [...]

DevOpsDays Gothenburg Video

Best. DevOpsDays. Ever. Just found my talk video. Much love to Tom and Patrick. devopsdays Goteborg 2011 – Julian Simpson , Everything I learned about Continuous Integration , I learned from System Administra from devopsdays on Vimeo.

Everything I know about Continuous Integration, I learned from Systems Administration

I was honoured to give a talk at DevOpsDays Gothenburg on Saturday. Much love to Patrick Debois for encouraging me to submit the talk, and huge props to my erstwhile colleague Tom Sulston for agreeing to co-present. The whole thing was a blast.

Conference Appearances, Q4 2011

Where the hell did 2011 go? Here’s where to find me for the rest of the year: LondonCI, 18th of October: Tom Duckering will be talking about scaling CI – register at skillsmatter to get in the door. [meetup] [skillsmatter] DevOpsDays Gothenburg, 14 October: It’s my pleasure to return to both Sweden and DevOpsDays for [...]

CITCON London 2011 – November 11-12

Ad we’re back. If you do Continuous Integration or testing in the UK, this is your conference. In addition to an awesome open space conference, you get to go to the pub with some of the smartest CI/Testing/DevOps minds in Europe. 11-12 November 2011, at the Skills Matter Exchange, London. Link

DevOps – what the hell is it?

The guys at Urbancode[1], Accurev and Rally kindly asked me to do a talk on DevOps for their Agile Comes to You seminar. It felt like it needed to be a little different from usual. So I broke it up into 5 minute chunks and launched into each topic. I covered 3 conflicting ideas about [...]

Patterns without Developers: Spa conference workshop

I did a workshop at the fantastic Spa conferencee this year. The purpose was to try and gather patterns in the software development process that didn’t come out of the GoF book or PoEAA. This is the output from those sessions, so late that I will at least do time in purgatory, if not someplace [...]

Autumn Conference Fun

San Francisco, October 7-8: Puppet Camp. Gutted that I can’t make that one. Though won’t miss the jet lag. Hamburg, October 15-16: DevOpsDays Europe. The first time was great. High expectations for the second, as well. London, November 5-6: Citcon Europe 2010. Prague didn’t give us a warm welcome, but London always does. Also, I’ll [...]

Silos are for Farmers: now online

Silos are for Farmers, my QCon London talk is online. The conference season this year managed to dovetail nicely with the birth of The Build Doctor Limited. This was nice in that I was doing a conference talk at the same time that I started my own company; evil in that I didn’t rehearse as [...]

Hudson hit my Puppet with Cucumber

I felt I had to attend the next talk in the main lecture room, simply to find out what its title meant. Patrick Debois and Julian Simpson’s presentation was entitled Hudson hit my Puppet with a Cucumber … I think that’s some of our best work. (via UKUUG June newsletter)