Category: ChicagoALM Users Group

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...

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...

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 Polaris Solutions for sponsoring. Another...

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 more content but alas it...