What horse did you ride in on? VMwareCode #hackathon

HA! Tonight was a pretty rewarding and humbling experience for myself. I was fortunate enough to lead a team at the VMworld Hackathon. Only, it didn’t start out as I had planned. While I knew that signups for my team was low, I did not expect to go solo. Not one of the folks who signed up for team #SweaterVester showed. One guy even sat down and started to set up his laptop, as we were talking he learned he was at the wrong table…..  DOH! lol

The good news (I think) is that I earned a new nickname, ‘The lone Ranger”. The bad news, well there is none. I had a wonderful time. I cannot thank the organizers, participants and judges enough for all of their kind words and support during and after the event.  It’s an awesome experience and I wasn’t going to let a lack of participation from other ruin my time!

I started out with some pretty far reaching goals, but quickly adjusted them down to work I believed I could complete during the event. At the end of the night, I was able to demo a brand new working feature to my OpenSource Project XesterUI. It was very rewarding to be able to complete the work in a short amount of time, and be able to demo the work live in front of a fairly intimidating group. I also found about 5 or 6 bugs, but those will have to wait until after VMworld.

If you want to learn more about the project I was working on, you can check out XesterUI on Github. Additionally on Thursday at 11:45 I have a vBrownBag presentation (located in the VMvillage) to talk about more of the features and details that will help you understand what this tool can do for you, your organization, and your vSphere environment.

A Very special thanks to Lily Chang, William Lam, Alan Renouf, and Chris Wahl for their kind words and encouragement this evening. This is by far one of my favorite events at VMworld! Food, Friendly competition, great conversations, and Beer. What more could you ask for?

While I didn’t win 1st place……  I did get to take home two Echo Dots! Which I will put to good use!

Bravo Vmware Code, Bravo.