Quiet Isnt it

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Its been a bit quiet on the the old blog with my parents updates wildly out numbering mine, but it has not been quiet in life very much business as usual (if chaos is usual) however bullet points are better than waffle, so lets got for that:

  • LDC Via is going great guns with features and real world solutions coming out of every orifice, uses for the platform have come from clients that we never even dreamed of, from the compliance angle (which meant we had to produce SHA-2 checksum reports for archives) to @MattWhite’s “Lens” UI which give you instant customisation for migrated and synced data.
  • Full Blown freelance work continues to be the roller-coaster ride it always is, you can go from “no work next week…Rats” to calling in the other members of LDC with a “FxxK FxxK FxxK any one got spare capacity to help me with XX?” in the space of 10 mins, it is still a constant search for work but when you are busy its hard to keep up to the social media stuff that brings more work in…and as for technical articles…
  • Technical articles..once the life blood of this blog seem to have dropped by the way side, I have to get back to them… but the problem with that is: one of my clients is true NDA so I can do anything to do with their work, another client for whom I’m doing lovely cutting edge blog fodder has requested that I keep the technical details secret and finally there is LDC Via stuff which I’m hoping to make a living off so don’t want to give away the crown jewels for and even on the stuff we really want to share it should really be one the LDC Via Blog its self (which I will cheat on and cross post)

That’s it really just a wave hello so you know I’m not dead

 

 

Engage 2015

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This post is WAYYYYY late but never mind (I promise no more false starts or Kale pictures)

Each year we tootle off to the Engage/Blug conference knowing full well that @theoheselmans is not going to be able to top last years awesome conference.

Each year we are wrong…. and this year was no exception, so much so that I forgot to take pictures of a number of the important stuff (including the OGS and the Library at the venue)

This time LDC were there as LDC Via and we went live with our first product on the first day of the conference.

 

It was great to be a proper sponsor and we had a steady stream of interested people, gave lots of demos and walked away with some good solid leads

 

Aren’t we a handsome bunch

We were presenting this year and @benpoole was making a return to the stage

 

 

He did a marvellous job and we got the biggest turn out for the sponsor sessions

(however he captioned the following 2 pictures himself)

 

@stickfight “…and then I told @benpoole what a good job he did presenting @ldcvia”

@MattWhite “LOL!”

 

 

@stickfight “Are we bringing @benpoole next time?”

@MattWhite “Hmm. Maybe stick to @woowar?”

Frenzied highlight of the conference from a personal point of view was the speed sponsoring where I got to rant madly at the entertained attendees while @MattWhite tried to read my mind to determine which of LDCVia’s feature set he should be demoing at any given second

 

 

On none-LDC Via business, a chat with Rene Winkelmeyer gave me a jaw dropping programming tip I simply would have never thought of and the tech sessions were as diverse as they were high quality, I also got to catch up with just about everybody I know as well as meet a bunch of new people.

Vibe wise: Engage was far far more upbeat than the IBM/Domino situation would warrant, but that has always been the case, now that Lotusphere/Connect is gone I rank it as the best conference to go to, and talking with some of my oldest clients who were making their first visit I was not the only one.

Lastly there was Ghent it’s self, a city I have never been to and it looks like I was really missing out, thanks again to @theoheselmans for giving me the chance to see it.