Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because…
The start of my blogging came from a night of heavy chatting on Face Book and being called an uber geek from some (many) of my friends. When I was first called UberGeek I went no, not me, no way and then my friend sent me this little excerpt from Urban Dictionary. Uber Geek = A person who is the ultimate computer geek. Knows programming and web design and operating systems and networking and hardware…
Straight after OSCON was Velocity Conference, which ended up being great timing for me to be able to attend both. During Velocity I was doing room volunteering which is always a great way to be forced to see a series of talks that you might not have otherwise 🙂 My favourite talk of the conference was one from the Principal Engineer from Financial Times in London discussing their real world venture into MicroServices. The talk…