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If there is a year when it will be difficult to select the best moments, this could be one of them. There are so many that’s hard to begin describing what happened in 2017?
In personal terms, as I mention in my last post, the family is growing this time with a baby boy and I’m currently moving to a brand new a bigger house… so, exciting times! In professional terms, it was a year full of projects and traveling. But it was a year that my blog got a new and modern look that made it more professional… and I even got a sponsor, BizTalk360, which allows me to pay the costs of hosting the blog in my own domain.
Despite all of this changes in my blog, I still was able to publish 63 new posts in my blog the country that most visited is still the United States, followed by India, United Kingdom, and Canada.
And I had the opportunity, as a speaker, to present 16 sessions! A new personal record! 2 more than last year
So once again let’s look back and reflect what happened in 2017. In a few words, it was an interesting and challenging year both personal and professional!
My selected Highlights of 2017
Sharing my book with the community
Once again, sharing my book with the community is a moment that I want to highlight and I have no words to thank you!
First speaking event in the USA
I have been doing a lot of conferences in Europe in the last few years, but I have never had the opportunity to do it on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, not because of lack of opportunities, but mainly because I have not been able to consolidate my professional agenda with this speaking opportunities. Fortunately, this year I was able to do it and be present at INTEGRATE USA in Redmond, presenting a session about BizTalk Server performance and optimizations:
And I have to say, you guys make me fill special! What amazing reception and feedback you provide me! THANKS!
TUGA IT 2017
Once again, I was in charge of organizing the Integration track at TUGA IT event, one of the major biggest events in Portugal that targets several distinct technologic areas like SharePoint and Office 365, Azure Infrastructure, Data Platform, Programming and Integration (BizTalk, IoT, and Azure) and much more.
Being responsible for the Integration track, I was able to invite some of my good friends to speak at this event: Nino Crudele, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Tomasso Groenendijk, Ricardo Torre and Eldert Grootenboer.
One of the top contributors to Microsoft Documentation
BizTalk Server documentation is now on DOCS and everyone can contribute and improve the existing documentation of which I’m glad to be one of the non-Microsoft top contributors.
A year of speaking engagements…
Another year full of speaking engagements… I had the opportunity to be present 16 sessions!!, speaking about different topics: BizTalk Server, Logic Apps, API Management, App Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Flow or PowerApps, in multiple events (the UK, USA, and Portugal) and some of them through live meetings. New personal record!
Some of them I already mentioned above but here is the complete list of speaking engagements that I did in 2017:
- XXVIII Porto.Data Event: SharePoint integration: How can PowerApps and Microsoft Flow give power to your SharePoint users
- DevScope Academy: LogicApps, SmartDocumentor, DynamicCRM & PowerBI
- SQL Saturday #583 Lisbon: BizTalk Server and SQL Server Together: For Developers & Admins
- Oporto Global Integration Bootcamp: THE SPEAKER NIGHTMARE: Eval Forms & OCR & Logic Apps & Power BI
- Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 Lisbon: Halt and Catch Fire: Azure Functions
- Cloud Pro: Processing Feedback Evaluations (paper) automagically with SmartDocumentor OCR, Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Power BI
- Cloud Pro: Introduction to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
- TUGA IT 2017: How can PowerApps and Microsoft Flow allows your power users to quickly build Enterprise Mobile Apps
- TUGA IT 2017: THE SPEAKER NIGHTMARE: Eval Forms & OCR & Logic Apps & Power BI
- Integration User Group: BizTalk Server: Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not)
- INTEGRATE 2017 London: BizTalk Server Fast & Loud
- Integration User Group: BizTalk Server: Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) – Part 2
- Integration User Group: The Speaker Nightmare: Eval Forms, OCR, Logic Apps & Power BI
- INTEGRATE 2017 USA: BizTalk Server Fast & Loud
- Integration User Group: How can Power Apps and Microsoft Flow allow your Power Users to quickly build Enterprise Mobile Apps
- XXXVI Porto.Data Event: The Speaker Nightmare: Eval Forms, OCR, Logic Apps & Power BI
For me is always a great honor and joy to be participating in these type of events, either as speaker or attendee, be with old friends, meet new people and share knowledge!
My 3 favorite’s posts
My 3 top posts that I enjoyed writing last year was:
For all of you…
Thanks for following me, for reading my blog and I promise that I will continue to share my knowledge during 2018.
