@Nic said:

@scottalanmiller at this point I'm more of a collector than a gamer

Me too. The kids play a lot more than I do. I'm up to about 105 games.

MySQL is a database. It needs it's own credentials. Same as SQL Server or Oracle or whatever.

@Nic you are the only person with a bigger Steam library than me!!

@Dashrender said:

I looked for all of 2 mins yesterday to see if I could find a mailing list option, it wasn't readily apparent.

I'm on it. I'll try to find the link when I am at a computer.

@ajstringham said:

Going to have to join their mailing list if they have one.

They do.

@DenisKelley said:

I definitely like the ability to embed videos. I thought that would be a great feature over at SW.

I'm loving it.

Youtube Video

Another one from Viddler that needed to be rescued. This is one of my favourites, this is my presentation on understanding storage fundamentals at SpiceWorld 2010. This is the famous "cardboard boxes and duct tape" talk that got a lot of attention.

@Minion-Queen said:

This is really a big deal for certain companies.

For a lot of them. There hasn't been any product like this for free before. Very big deal.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/log-analysis/splunk-feels-the-heat-stronger-cheaper-open-source-rivals-237041

Saw this one last week and thought that it was really interesting. I've used Splunk but was unaware of these competitors. They look to have some amazing features and for free, they could really offer some extreme value. Splunk is expensive and a ton of effort to make useful. It's fine for a small shop as likely they will not top its size limit but these products offer a lot of flexibility and no limits, ever.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/red-hat-take-microsoft-net-hosted-service-237792

This is making big news this morning. Red Hat's OpenShift is a direct competitor to Azure and now they are able to host .NET applications, in the big enterprise space, has been purely in the hands of Microsoft up until now.

@Minion-Queen said:

I am trying to figure out how to get over there this year. Still trying to get the $$ together

If you go, I'm probably going.

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller Have a great day ahead.. Early to go home

Awesome. That doesn't happen for you very often. Get some sleep!

Youtube Video

This is an old one but it was hosted on Viddler and they are taking that service down this week. So I thankfully remembered to download this and transfer it to YouTube instead and now, since it is there, we can finally embed it somewhere so that it is actually accessible.

Awesome, glad you found the video. I heard that they are giving away over nine figures (that's more than one hundred million dollars US) in revenue to do this!! That it is completely free, unlimited, no adds, enterprise, secure and runs on Linux are all huge.

@akp982 said:

Sad times not 100% sure i can make it to austin this year due to work comitments sounds like i'll be in Thailand

That's only so much of a bummer How is the job going?

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham The one thing that we've been discussing and that this thread is about.

Ok, got it. In that case, if it's free, would that be worth looking at as an alternative to using Dynamics as a helpdesk AND CRM?

It's not a CRM.

@Joyfano said:

Good Evening for me

At least you get to go home soon, I am just starting my commute in a minute.

Just picked up two of them

I had been planning on making it over to London in May but now it is looking like @dominica and I won't be able to schedule it

Nice work.