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RIPE77 and other bits and bobs

xxxx — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:18:53 +0100

This week just gone saw #RIPE77 take place in the home of RIPE and the RIPE NCC - Amsterdam. Even since I attended my first RIPE in Dublin which was RIPE66, I have loved the event. For this reason I really dislike missing it.

With my change of role since 2016, attending the meetings are sadly not a core responsibility of mine for $day_job but that said, who in their right mind that has any involvement in the networking community ignores the meetings (amirite)? At any chance I get during the week, I either remotely participate in the live meeting or failing that, check back on the presentation archives after the fact. A couple of key and to me seminal presentations were;

Github Learnings for a relative newbie like me

xxxx — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:18:53 +0100

After the last number of weeks I have been working away with some projects / repositories on GitHub. As I’m currently the only contributor to my repos my usage of the full capabilities of git isn’t necessitated and to be frank most of my work with git has simply involved;

vim some-super-interesting-file.md
:wq
git add some-super-interesting-file.md
git commit -m "some commit message"
git push origin whatever-branch

It’s pretty simple and straightforward and outside of needing to do the odd git pull in my project directory from time to time because I’ve done some updates either directly on github.com or on another machine, it’s been pretty flawless.

INEX Meeting - Iveagh Garden Hotel

xxxx — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:18:53 +0100

I’ve been an active member of the INEX community as a result of my employer BT’s membership of INEX for many years now. Even though it’s no longer a direct responsibility of mine to attend on behalf of our Network Engineering team any longer, I feel it’s an extremely good way of keeping in touch with the networking community in Ireland.

So any time the meetings are held and I can work it into my working schedule without having a clash with other customer meetings etc I make it my business to attend. It’s also a really good way to stay embedded with what’s relevant in terms of technologies in use by Service Providers / Peers in the industry.