Boy, has it really been that long since I put up a post?  You get busy with the day to day grind, and say to yourself, ‘I’ll get one up by Tuesday, and realize it is Thursday already’.  I’m sure we all have something we know we should be making more time for during our work week; filing those overdue reports, re-certifying those work safety requirements, taking that on-line OPC training course you’ve been meaning to do.  If it is important than it’s important to find the time to get it done.

I took some time to catch up on some marketing reading, including this posting on ‘What’s working in marketing’.  It’s a great podcast featuring Gary Mintchell and Walt Boyes. If you listen to the section on blogging, you’ll of course hear Gary’s admonishment at my recent remiss in blogging.  He quoted me quite correctly as saying ‘There’s blogging and there’s business’, but it’s high time I get back to the ‘business of blogging’.

Walt and Gary talk about the power of blogs to get breaking news and information out.  There has been a lot of things happening in OPC these days, that is blog worthy including the next upcoming OPC Foundation Roadshow.

MatrikonOPC will be at the next OPC Technical Seminar , on April 29, 2010 at the Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley, in Fremont, CA .  There is still time to register, if you haven’t already, and you’re going to be in the area.  Feel free to drop by the MatrikonOPC booth, and learn more about OPC and how it can help your business.  For those on the other side of the globe, you can check out the Matrikon User Conference in Koln, Germany.  The OPC track includes talks on OPC UA StreamInsight, secure data architectures and much more.

I encourage everyone to take the opportunity to attend these events.  If you can’t find the time to make the trip, you might still want to read more on how OPC can be configured to limit access so that users can only see the tags they really need to: ‘OPC Access on a Need to Know Basis’