Yesterday saw the first event of TechDays Ireland in Galway.\u00a0 There was a good turnout and they got to see sessions from 3 speakers including Rhonda Layfield (deployment MVP from the USA) and Niall Flanagan (SQL MVP from Ireland).\u00a0 Niall had a particularly tough challenge \u2013 how to talk about the basics of managing SQL to non-DBA\u2019s in 40 minutes.\u00a0 He did a cracking job.\u00a0 There were a few nerves as laptops started acting up before the event but all fell into place in the last 10 minutes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t blog \u2013 I don\u2019t want to give away the material while the sessions are ongoing.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019ll be twittering<\/a> little bits here and there with a #TechDays flag. <\/p>\n Afterwards a good deal of people hung around in the bar and we chatted until the wee hours.\u00a0 We missed the last opportunity to order food so Enda from MS ordered in pizzas to the hotel from Domino\u2019s.\u00a0 Sweet! <\/p>\n I\u2019m off to Cork today for tomorrows event \u2013 I\u2019ve a detour to make a stop along the way.\u00a0 I\u2019ll check in and do some work from the hotel tonight.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s on to TechDays in Cork<\/a>.\u00a0 The agenda is different than last night with more of a focus on pure IT pro material.\u00a0 Myself and Dave Northey from MS will be doing a \u201cWindows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 Better Together and Hyper-V R2\u201d session.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do the death-by-powerpoint while Dave does the demos.\u00a0 We rehearsed yesterday \u2013 the demo\u2019s look very cool. <\/p>\n So if you\u2019re in the south and the agenda sounds like you\u2019re cup of tea, register (for free) and come along.\u00a0 There\u2019s a draw for an X-Box Elite and 2 TechNet Plus subscriptions for those who attend, fill in their feedback forms and stick around for 5 minutes for the draw (the latter does help!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday saw the first event of TechDays Ireland in Galway.\u00a0 There was a good turnout and they got to see sessions from 3 speakers including Rhonda Layfield (deployment MVP from the USA) and Niall Flanagan (SQL MVP from Ireland).\u00a0 Niall had a particularly tough challenge \u2013 how to talk about the basics of managing SQL … Continue reading “TechDays Has Kicked Off”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}