What’s more delightful than finding a cup of coffee you forgot about earlier in the morning? Bonus coffee, more than you thought was left. I have some trips coming up, not least of which is the week in Poland. I’ll be speaking at a meet-up in Warsaw and then twice at Devoxx.PL in Kraków. Hopefully this poison ivy I have will be abated as much as possible by my flight!

What’s more delightful than finding a cup of coffee you forgot about earlier in the morning? Bonus coffee, more than you thought was left. I have some trips coming up, not least of which is the week in Poland. I’ll be speaking at a meet-up in Warsaw and then twice at Devoxx.PL in Kraków. Hopefully this poison ivy I have will be abated as much as possible by my flight!

The nook of the IT world I operate in now - application development and delivery - had a good event this week in the Cloud Foundry Summit. This is the annual meeting of the open source foundation and community built around Cloud Foundry. There are several distributions of the core project, I of course work at Pivotal where we offer Pivotal Cloud Foundry (to much momentum over the past year). Sam gives a good overview of the event if you'r interested.

This week I'm at OSCON in Austin - loads of people are in-town! Next week I'll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It's a good chance to see people talking about "cloud native" and they're applying it at their company. I've got a 20% discount code if you want to register. DevOpsDays Seattle last week was good fun. The foot-traffic by our table was excellent. During breaks it was so loud you could barely hear people talking.

This week it's DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you're interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin, which will be fun! Coté ContentChange review boards aren't helpful — www.theregister.co.uk My monthly column at The Register looks at one of the findings of the DevOps studies: One of the more wickedly astonishing findings from the current DevOps Report is that change review or advisory boards have little effect on a company’s performance.

It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos. Coté Content "Use Balanced Teams to Suck Less at Software" in Built to Adapt My write-up of “staff your application team with all the roles needed for the full life-cycle of the application.

The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y'all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any hijinks. Promos, ads, discount codes Coté Content Rather than subject you to a big text block of ads and such - and save myself from typing it all the time - I put all the conference discount codes and ads I have on one page: http://cote.

I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my second hair and beard cut from Abby Gapko. She does great work here in Austin and ain’t too expensive.

Hello again. It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Austin, worse over there in Houston. We lived in years of draught, so downpours are always miraculous. I think the lake is even full now, after God knows how long of being way under. Conferences The Spring conference season is on. You know if someone says “conference season” they go to (too many?) conferences for work. I’ve had to miss out on DevOpsDays London where I would have been speaking this week, but will be at all sorts of other conferences over the next few months:

Things are thin this episode as I took some time off for family. "An ongoing battle""Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle." From Authority, delightfully "new weird." Coté ContentDevOps isn't just about the new: It's about cleaning up the old, too — www.theregister.co.uk My monthly DevOps column at The Register, here on dealing with legacy IT. I'm way too happy with myself about the eating cereal over the sink part.