{"id":19361,"date":"2015-12-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:15:20","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19361","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m winding down for Christmas so I wanted to wrap up the blog for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>2015 has been an amazing year for me. Tech was fun &#8211; Windows 10 came along and we got to start playing with WS2016. I did lots more work with Azure, and had the pleasure of seeing that work turn into adoption &#8211; even if it\u2019s just the trickle ahead of the flood. I spoke at Ignite &#8211; finally achieving the ambition of speaking at a big Microsoft conference in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to see friends from afar at the various conference and user group events, including MVP Summit, E2EVC, Future Decoded, and Experts Live.<\/p>\n<p>But most important of all, I got married to the amazing Nicole, and became a dad to a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bouncing<\/span> cart-wheeling 8 year old girl.<\/p>\n<p>How do I top 2015? 2016 is shaping up to be a different kind of fantastic \ud83d\ude00 I hope you\u2019ve all have a great Christmas (or whatever you celebrate or do this season) and that 2016 will be a great year for you.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;m winding down for Christmas so I wanted to wrap up the blog for the rest of the year. 2015 has been an amazing year for me. Tech was fun &#8211; Windows 10 came along and we got to start playing with WS2016. 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