I haven’t been blogging much lately, and I wanted to apologize and let you all know what’s going on with me lately.  Lots of stuff has been going on actually, which is good and bad.  I like being busy, so that’s a good thing, but you know sometimes you just try to do too much stuff and then the stress kicks in and that’s not fun.

Anyway, here’s the rundown:

TechMentor

I’m presenting three sessions at TechMentor Orlando, and I’m excited about it.  I hope some of you happen to come down to the show this June, it should be a lot of fun.  I’ve been spending a lot of time getting my sessions ready and I hope that all goes well.  Here are the session names:

• W15 VMware ESXi for the Small Business and Smart IT Pro 
• W19 Automating VMware Management with Windows PowerShell
• TH8 Automate Hyper-V with PowerShell and Virtual Machine Manager

TechEd

You may know that as Director of PowerShellCommunity.org, I was sent to TechEd lsat week in Los Angeles. Steve Murawski and I spent our time alternating between staffing Microsoft’s management technologies booth, attending breakout sessions (and occasionally participating in them), meeting with PoshComm sponsors, meeting with prospective sponsors on the show floor, and just networking with other cool geeks who like PowerShell. If you use Facebook, check out the photos I tagged and captioned that Ibrahim (from the PowerShell team) took while at the show.

And there’s more! I was busy at the show…

I interviewed the one and only Mark Minasi for TechEd Online.  I don’t think it’s  been posted online yet, but when it is, I’ll be sure to give you all a link.  The guy is great to talk to and a hell of a speaker as most of you know already.  I had a lot of fun with the interview. In fact, it was funny because the lady coordinating the video shoot said to aim for 2-3 minutes, and Mark and I turned to look at each other and I knew he was thinking the exact same thing I was.  “This lady is crazy, let’s talk for as long as we want to.” 

I also interviewed Kirk Munro of PowerGUI fame, also for TechEd Online, but I think a different group.  This was a neat overview of what Kirk does.  Dmitry did a great write-up which you can find here.

One evening, I had the distinct honor of being interviewed by Scott Hanselman on his Hanselminutes podcast.  I knew that Scott’s show leaned heavy to the dev side, so I dragged Kirk along with me.  You can listen to us on show #162 PowerShell 2.0.

Let’s see what else…I had a book signing, got to meet a few people there.  I attended Don Jones’ PowerShell top 10 tips session, and we walked together to the bookstore and hung out while he was signing his own book.  I actually signed more copies of my book during his signing than my own.  Thanks, Don!

Last, but not least, my birds-of-a-feather session turned out great.  We had between 20 and 30 people, and it was a very interactive audience for which I was thankful.  Steve also helped out a lot during the talk.

Whew! Enough typing for now.  I need to get some more scripts posted up here.  I think that’ll start back up again now that I’ve got a new job and all that. (P.S. for those who may have missed it, I’m now at Home Depot on the Enterprise Monitoring team.)