Category: Conferences and Meetups

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 SOA but much smaller in...

Octopus Deploy Customization and Automation with .NET and PowerShell Presentation at ChicagoALM Users Group

Last week, I gave an introduction to Octopus Deploy Customization and Automation with .NET and PowerShell. It was a great crowd and after the presentation, I had a lot of questions to take. I had meant to upload this sooner but as I got home, I was greeted with the first (and hopefully last) seasonal flu and was out sick for the...

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 show how we’ve extended Octopus...

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 entertaining all-in-one. No slides. No demo....

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, surprise). I always try to...

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 machine guests on my home...