A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
Before my first VMworld experience in 2017, I was completely overwhelmed with how to spend my time at the conference. With so many activities happening, how do you decide? Despite this being a virtual event yet again, I want to provide a framework for attendees to make the most out of this year’s conference. Regardless…
I see an empty conference center where VMworld once sat. If you’ve never attended VMworld in person, it’s a completely overwhelming experience for the first time attendee. Now that it’s virtual and free to attend, it’s more accessible to us all. But it can still be overwhelming. I wanted to take a few minutes to…
What happens when you have an idea for a conference talk but don’t have the technical expertise to back it up? And what if you think the things you plan to do with certain technologies can be done but aren’t 100% certain? Do you submit anyway and risk failure or just save the idea for…
What do you do when you’re vacationing with family at a theme park? You get ideas for blog posts, of course. Well, apparently this is what happens to me on vacation. This week as we visited Disneyland for the first time I could not help but think that the way we approach spending time at…
The presentation featured in this post is from the October 2018 Dallas VMUG UserCon and is the extended edition of an idea born from a vBrownBag presentation at VMworld 2017. After giving that presentation in 2017, I quickly realized there was enough content to make it a full session. As I allude to in the…
This year I was blessed to present a session on Shadow IT at Spiceworld 2017, and I have to say it was an amazing experience. The best part about it was getting the attendees involved. I expected questions during the presentation, but I was very grateful for all the audience members who were willing to…
This year was the first time I was able to attend VMworld US, and it was an amazing experience. Just before the conference, I was contacted by someone at Spiceworks and asked to write a few articles about what it’s like to attend. Since there were several articles, I wanted to list all of them…
After finding out I was approved to attend VMworld this year, I signed up to present a vBrownBag Tech Talk on VMware vSAN. Just a few weeks before the conference, I was lucky to secure an official slot on the agenda for Thursday afternoon. The idea for the talk was pretty simple. If vSAN powered…
I’ve seen a number of blogs lately recommending sessions to attend for this year’s VMworld. And then there are a number of blogs people have written for the first time attendee which have been extremely helpful. Since I seem to be deriving a ton of value from various podcasts lately, I thought I would post…