Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Blogging

VMworld Video Blogging!

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Every year Eric Sloof of NTPro.nl does a serieus of great video blogs on VMworld. It seems that this year Eric will not be the only blogger walking around with a camcorder. Viktor, or should I say vIktor, just broke the news. He received a cool gift from VMware… Flip Video! And it seems like most bloggers will receive one.

Flip is a small camcorder device which contains 2GB of onboard memory. It will enable the bloggers to shoot video coverage and upload it to youtube with a single click. I expect a lot of video showing up, not only from the VMworld floor but also the VMworld Party(and related parties). So be warned! The Flip is hip.

My statistics for January 2009…

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I was just checking my statistics for January and it’s gone up again and looking at february I will hit a major milestone possibly. Here are the stats for January 2009:

  • Daily Avg unique visits: 3103
  • Daily hits: 33.364
  • Monthly Total unique visits: 96.216
  • Monthy Total hits: 1.034.297

And so far this month I’ve already had 37.214 unique visits, with VMworld coming up I should be able to break 100.000 unique visitors.

Thanks everyone for contributing via comments / tips and thanks for reading!

Update: Meet the VMTN Experts, Dates & Time

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Okay, the dates and time have been set for the Meet the VMTN Experts session. We are still looking for an official name for the session but just write down these dates and times and be sure to be there:

Tuesday 24th – 13.00 – 14.00
Wednesday 25th – 13.00 – 14.00
Location: Community Lounge on the solution exchange

Who will be there:

Jason Boche – Boche.net + VMTN Moderator
Thomas Bryant – VMTN Moderator
Steve Beaver – thevirtualblackhole.com + VMTN Moderator
Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl + VMTN/VMUG Contributor
Scott Herold – VMGuru.com + VMTN Contributor and author of VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Wil van Antwerpen – vi-toolkit.com + VMTN Contributor
Gabrie van Zanten – gabesvirtualworld.com + VMTN Contributor
Alan Renouf – teckinfo.blogspot.com + VMTN Contributor
Tom Howarth – PlanetVM.net + VMTN Moderator
Duncan Epping – Yellow-Bricks.com + VMTN Moderator

vExpert, last chance…

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Today is your last chance to nominate your favorite VMTN Moderators or Virtualization Bloggers(PlanetV12n or not) for the vExpert award:

VMware vExperts are recognized for their service to the greater virtualization community. We’ve gotten a number of applications and nominations from both inside and outside of VMware. If you would like to apply yourself or nomination someone for consideration, the deadline for applications is midnight California time, Friday, February 6, 2009. We plan to announce the award winners later this month. Good luck!

[Update: just to be perfectly crystal clear, Friday night 23:59:59 PST, which is UTC – 8 hours. We might not pull the form down right away, because I’m not sure our web team will appreciate having to pull it at midnight Friday after a hard week of work. If the form is still there, I’ll probably still accept your application, but I wouldn’t be counting on that. It’s an easy application, so I’d stop procrastinating at this point if I were you.]

Head over to the vExpert website and make sure your favorite bloggers has at least one nomination.

Update: Meet the VMTN Experts

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As Steve just posted, the full list of VMTN Experts that will join the VMTN Experts Panel / Meet and greet at VMworld Europe has just been announced:

Jason Boche – Boche.net + VMTN Moderator
Thomas Bryant – VMTN Moderator
Steve Beaver – thevirtualblackhole.com + VMTN Moderator
Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl + VMTN/VMUG Contributor
Scott Herold – VMGuru.com + VMTN Contributor and author of VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Wil van Antwerpen – vi-toolkit.com + VMTN Contributor
Gabrie van Zanten – gabesvirtualworld.com + VMTN Contributor
Alan Renouf – teckinfo.blogspot.com + VMTN Contributor
Tom Howarth – PlanetVM.net + VMTN Moderator
Duncan Epping – Yellow-Bricks.com + VMTN Moderator

You will have the chance to ask questions to specific individuals on specific topics. Discuss your current or future design. Maybe you’ve got some weird problem that you just can’t seem to fix. Or well maybe you just want to shake hands… All is possible. Don’t be scared, come over and introduce yourselves!

The dates/times will be announced soon, the location already has been announced: The Community Lounge. We will try to have two sessions so everyone will be able to make it!