Last week I received a very unexpected email: “Hi Esteban, Congratulations, your nomination has been accepted to the Microsoft Regional Director program! I am pleased to welcome you to this worldwide community of technology thought leaders and thank you for being a part of this community.” About 6 weeks earlier, I had submitted the information […]
I recently received an email letting me know that ClearDB was making changes that would cause the database for one of my WordPress sites to be impacted: “ClearDB is phasing out the Mercury DB and Titan DB service plans from the Azure Marketplace. To ensure continuity of the ClearDB service simply upgrade your Mercury and/or […]
Many teams and organizations ask me about strategies to modernize their applications. They want to get to the cloud and they don’t know what would be the most effective way to start. And once they get started, what would be the best pay to keep momentum going and deliver measurable impact to the organization. Join […]
As we start the new year, the Orlando .NET User Group has been busy preparing for another great event. The 13th annual Orlando Codecamp will take place on March 17th at Seminole State College. This is a free all-day event with sessions ranging from beginner to advanced. We will have sessions on all sorts of […]
What do people mean when they tell you that you should have a DevOps culture to succeed with DevOps? Isn’t DevOps just about the tools and automation? I discuss DevOps culture on Nebbia’s blog. How do you define DevOps culture? Have you achieved getting your entire organization involved with your DevOps transformation?
I am very excited about speaking at Microsoft Ignite this year. This will be my first time speaking at Microsoft’s yearly event focused on IT Professionals and Developers. I will be doing 2 sessions (1 will be repeated, so I will be speaking 3 times). You can see my sessions here: https://myignite.microsoft.com/speaker/218167?source=sessiondetail&sessionId=55854 The sessions will […]
This November, I will be back at Live! 360 in Orlando. The conference runs from November 12th through November 17th at the Royal Pacific Resort. I spoke there last year and I’m super excited that they invited me back. You can check out the event details at http://bit.ly/LSPK30_home, or go directly to sign up here: […]
The 12th annual Orlando Codecamp is this Saturday, April 8th! Once again, the ONETUG board has put together an amazing lineup of speakers and sessions and we will have another great Code Camp. Code Camp is a free event put together by the Central Florida software development community, for the community. We’ll have sessions covering […]
When you create a team in Team Service, you get access to 3 backlog levels: – Epic – Feature – Backlog Items (or Stories or Requirements) Starting with the March 8th release, you can now define additional levels and assign either an existing or a new Work Item type to that backlog. This allows you […]
Last Thursday, I gave a presentation at Agile Orlando. The talk focused on the journey taken by Nebbia Technology so far, growing into a sustainable software company while using Agile practices. I’m used to putting together more technical talks, so this was a bit challenging to prepare but it was great to look back and […]