phptek

I delivered a session on Tips for successfully working remote/working from home—both for employees and employers—at php[tek] 2016 in St. Louis today. This session was a bit shorter than yesterday's session on a HA Raspberry Pi cluster, but I had a lot of content I've been putting together for many months.

Another year, another field trip for the Pi Dramble—my 5-Raspberry-Pi cluster! I presented a session titled Highly available Drupal on a Raspberry Pi Cluster at php[tek] 2016, which just so happens to have moved to my hometown, St. Louis, MO this year!

For this presentation, I remembered to record the audio using a lav mic plugged into my iPhone, as well as iShowU to record what was on my screen. Sadly, I didn't have a secondary camera to capture the Pi Dramble itself, but you can glance at all the other 'Let's build a Pi Cluster' videos if you want to see it in action!

Here's a video recording of the presentation:

Just wanted to post a whimsical image I captured while preparing for one of my presentations having to do with Raspberry Pis at this year's php[tek]:

The banana is for scale.

I'm going to bring the Raspberry Pi Dramble with me to php[tek] on May 25 in St. Louis this year, and I'm hoping to also bring it with me to DrupalCon New Orleans in early May (I submitted the session Highly-available Drupal 8 on a Raspberry Pi Cluster, hopefully it's approved!).

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be delivering two sessions at php[tek] this year:

• Highly-available Drupal on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
• ProTips for Staying Sane while Working from Home

Both topics are near and dear to me, as I've had more time to refine the Ansible roles and performance of Drupal 8 on a Raspberry Pi (see Drupal Pi and the Raspberry Pi Dramble website for more info), and I've also been spending some time lately optimizing my WFH environment (the nice cave-like office in my basement, where I spend the majority of my waking hours!).