Category: Conferences and Meetups

SDC Presentation – Intro to Octopus Deploy

On Sunday, January 11th 2015 at 1:00pm, I’ll be presenting Octopus Deploy at the Software Development Community (SDC) in Naperville, Illinois. I’ve attended a few of the SDC meetings and it’s a solid crowd. There have been interesting topics presented before so I hope I can make Octopus as interesting to others as it is to me. Since this is an introductory presentation,...

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...

SDC Presentation – FermiLab Software Development

On Sunday, October 5th, I attended the Software Development Community’s (SDC) presentation on software development at FermiLab, presented by Dr. James Amundson. It was a fascinating look into the world of high performance computing and clustering. It’s my first time attending SDC which there was a good sized crowd and everyone seemed genuinely interested in the topic at hand and there were many...

Seattle Bound

This weekend I’ll be attending the Seattle Code Camp to present Octopus Deploy. While I’ve done several presentations before, I’m going to change the presentation by removing a lot of technical minutia and focusing in on the benefits, some configuration and a seamless deployment demo (as I’ve learned from prior experience). Each demo that I’ve given I’ve probably gone on from...

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...