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Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.

Posts tagged with devopsdays

  • DevOpsDays Göteborg Ignite talk videos up!
    Posted by Oliver on the 8th of November, 2011 in category Tech

    I'm trying to take every opportunity that presents itself to blab about what I'm working on, so I gave an Ignite talk at the recent DevOpsDays in Göteborg, Sweden. The videos are now up, and fortunately for you I spoke first so I'm right at the start of the video.

    It was my first Ignite talk and my memory is always hopeless so there was a bit of slide confusion but it resolved itself quite nicely…

  • Cool Tools
    Posted by Oliver on the 15th of October, 2011 in category Tech

    Today at DevOpsDays Göteborg we rounded out the day's events with an Open Space session on Cool Tools. Basically I wanted to have a session where as experts in our field we can suggest life-saving, life-changing or just handy tools we use from day to day that others may not be aware of. Each person got up, said some small amount about the tool in question and wrote it on the board. In the end we…

  • Proposal for talk at DevOpsDays Boston!
    Posted by Oliver on the 25th of January, 2011 in category Tech

    My proposal is up on the DevOpsDays website, please comment and vote on it!

  • Devopsdays 2010
    Posted by Oliver on the 15th of October, 2010 in category Tech

    I'm in Hamburg! If you've read through my previous articles I've written for Anchor you would know that I love going to tech conferences. I'm currently at Devopsdays which is being hosted in the very stylish East Hotel, just down the road from Hamburg's red-light district. I haven't actually been outside during the day yet since we caught the EC train up from Berlin last night, but I'm enjoying…

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