I’m about 24 hours away from making the yearly pilgramage to Blackhat in Las Vegas. This year is going to be a little different from last year. Yes SPI Dynamics has a booth and we are speaking again on the perils of the Internet but this time around we find ourselves in the middle of making a journey from SPI Dynamics to HP. For those of you who don’t know, HP announced their intention to purchase SPI Dynamics about 30 days ago. Over those past 30 days and well, many weeks before it was public it’s been an exciting journey. For me however it’s also one that started a little over 7 years ago when I learned of a company called Perfecto Technologies. I joined Perfecto shortly aftwards and the web application world has been my entire world since then. It’s now with a new excitement that I look around the corner on what will deffinitly be the start of an entierly new era. We find ourselves on a tipping point now and in the next 12 months this market will go farther than it has in the last 7 years.
So Blackhat is going to special this year, it’s a time to enjoy catching up with customers and friends in the community but also a chance to let loose just a little bit more than usual for me and the entire SPI crew, so if you see us, give us a shout and come join the fun.
See you in Vegas!
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Believe it or not I actually missed most of Blackhat. I had been assigned to several government conferences that week, and arrived at the night of the first day of BH, just in time to get severely hassled by the bouncers at our party. That was kind of funny though … “Look man, I know everyone here outside is saying they belong in there, but I can guarantee I’m the only one with the home phone number of the man paying for it all ” …that finally got me in, but just with about 30 minutes left on the party. The next day was booth duty at 8 am, but I got to do that with Jeff and it rocked. He was a *monster* in the booth; worked it harder than anyone else and pretty much harder than anyone I’d ever seen; he was scanning left and right, asking the right questions, just going about it perfectly. This will sound crazy, but watching him at booth duty kind of made my day. I can’t wait for it this year, but my lord it’s one hell of a busy booth … I miss the days when we *didn’t* have a booth and I could actually mingle with customers, go to sessions , etc … one day though