Security for a day

Well, very interesting night and despite the room being filled with any sysadmin’s natural enemy, the dreaded cowboy developers, it was great fun.

I was the seventh one up (out of 11 presenters) and had spent most of my time listen to SQL or coding based talks. I actually leaning a number of things and it was much more fun having a live presenter walking through their stuff.

I decided to split from my carefully plan script and took on a persona of a demented sysadmin (BOFH). I spent a good 5 minutes ranting and telling bad jokes, 2 minutes of demo-ing File server resource manager, 3 minutes telling off developers and 4 minutes filling in the rest of the FSRM story. So much for sticking to the 10 minute time line. Oops. Managed to get a few laughs, a couple of points across and numerous death threats for the large assembled group of developers.

After all that Tatham Oddie won the demo comp, with an excellent presentation. His style was very calm, clear and well practiced. Something to aspire to or, at least, attempt next time around.

I’m now the proud owner of a bright orange teeshirt. Still somewhat confused on what Roger was thinking on the colour, but I’m sure it made him laugh.

Well worth the time and energy to be part of the community!

Fab night and thanks again to both Roger and Andrew for judging and kind words.