Beware….it turns out when you go to a local VMUG, you might be assigned homework. This turned out to be the case for me a couple of weeks ago while attending the Louisville VMUG. During his ‘Automating the Next Generation DC’ session, Josh Atwell assigned all attendees some homework: Establish a GitHub login, build a repository, download the GitHub desktop and commit some work.... »
Everyone has a different definition Community just as your meaning of Community is different. A few weeks back I had the opportunity to participate in a Community Roadshow in Western Canada, MVP Days. Going into the event I was extremely nervous, I knew a couple of the guys but I really never met any of the core crew in person before (only chatted with on Twitter via #MVPHour). MVP Days is a 3 day... »
We’re one week into #vDM30in30 and just as @discoposse (Eric Wright) explained in his blog post prior to last year’s virtual Design Master: 30 articles in 30 days campaign, there has been an extremely varied selection of blog topics. For example, here’s what we at vBrisket published this week: A recommitment to the community Docker, Containers and the “Application First” Revoluti... »
Looking back on this past year, man has it been an interesting ride! The privately owned company I work for got purchased by a public company, the “vBrisket” community got started and continues to evolve, and I made a commitment to focus on making a change in my career path. Career goals were never much of a concern of mine before, I always just thought of myself as an IT guy working i... »
Time Management is something that I have always thought of myself being pretty good at. Turns out I suck. How did I come to this realization? After many years of implementing time management best practices including GTD, Notecards, Lists, Monthly Priority Schedules, etc. – I still find that I just have got way to much stuff I want to do, and many times I don’t focus on the important ... »
Earlier this past year in Chicago, Microsoft launched and held their inaugural event where many announcements were made regarding the future of Windows Server and Hyper-V Technologies. There’s many posts out there that list out the features in great depth, so I am not going to re-create the wheel – My favorite is from Thomas Maurer, Hyper-V MVP. One of the great resources available is ... »
As vBrisket’ers, I think we can confidently say that virtualization is the foundation of our community and the glue that holds us together. More specifically, I think we can say that x86/Hypervisor based virtualization is the foundation/glue. That being said, I find myself looking at some of the major advancements in “cloud” technologies and I start to question the typic... »
A few weeks ago the Western PA VMUG leaders decided to get together and talk about our local group and things that we each were concerned about. The leadership team consists of Eric Kubla, David Hewett, Thomas Higgins, Eric Pond and myself with Alex Musicante being our primary contact with VMware (he was also a a very dedicated leader before working for VMware). We needed to discuss the upcoming ... »