UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day

The more observant among you will have noticed that Derek Jr. has taken temporary leave, to be replaced by my ugly mug again. It must mean that there’s a conference coming up.

I’ll be presenting the Parallel Execution Slaves paper at the UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day this Thursday. I might change one or two things slightly, but I reckon it makes more sense to just do what I did at the Hotsos Symposium, for those who couldn’t just pop over to Dallas 😉 I still say it’s a hard paper to present, because I can only really give a flavour of it, but we’ll see how it goes. I’ve only got a 45 minute slot, so it might be a bit frantic.

(Actually, I just had a thought. For anyone who attended the session in Dallas – let me know what I could have done to improve it and I might still have time to make some changes)

At least there’ll be more opportunity to answer any questions than normal because there’ll be a dedicated PX table at lunch, for those who want to discuss things in a bit more depth. I’ve sat on one of these in the past at the Unix SIG and it certainly increases the user community feel to an event, so I’m quite a fan. Of course, it means that I need to time cigarette breaks, lunch and conversation, but I’ll do my best. (I might slip out of the last pre-lunch presentation a bit early!)

I’m travelling down tomorrow so that I can spend the evening talking to Jeff Moss about PX and Lisa Dobson can throw her drink over me (at least I think it’s that way round). I think I’ve probably promised Pete Finnigan an argument about security researchers too, but I’ll probably just hide in the toilets 😉

I’m looking forward to it.