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Conferences in 2010

February 11, 2010

I’m attending some conferences this year. Here’s the detail so far.

In March, I’m speaking at QCon London 2010 (in the Devops track).
Patrick Debois and I are speaking at the UKUUG conference in Manchester later that month.
In May, I’m facilititating a session at the SPA Conference in London.
September brings CITCON Europe 2010 in Prague.
I’ll also [...]

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Devopsdays 2009

December 17, 2009
Devops friend kit

Every day, in every country in the developed world, I.T. fails us. People fume over failed bank transactions, travel bookings, and supermarket transactions. Most of the I.T industry seem be focussed on apportioning blame instead of resolving the problems.
I blame Sun.
I think that the split between Unix Systems Administrators and Developers Who Write Stuff [...]

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Doing more with less people at ScaleCamp

December 4, 2009

The first ScaleCamp talk I attended was about scaling people. Ed Freyfogle of property search engine Nestoria presented the talk. Nestoria is run by a small group of people who all sit together and get things done. I find it interesting because they are doing the whole thing in perl. [...]

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Stack Overflow days look promising

May 13, 2009

We all lose when we are corralled into vendor or technology specific segments. Spolsky and Atwood are doing a conference to bring together developers who just want to be good. Not Java developers, not .NET developers, just developers.
Remember Byte? Every issue covered a wide range of topics and technologies. Sadly, Byte disappeared, to be [...]

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