Eric Gregory01/07/13
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James Turnbull recently announced the impending publication of The LogStash Book: "The book will be a practical, hands-on guide to deploying a log management infrastructure with open source tool LogStash."
Eric Gregory01/07/13
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At Jax 2012, Patrick Debois discusses infrastructure-as-code, TDD, BDD, and continuous integration.
Eric Gregory01/06/13
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This tutorial video from Opscode shows you how to build DevOps toolchains with Chef and Rundeck.
Geoffrey Papilion01/06/13
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Back in 1997 I installed my first copy of FreeBSD. I had to do some major research to get X Windows up and running, and the next computer I bought I very carefully selected a video card to make things easier.
Eric Gregory01/05/13
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In this talk from GOTO Aarhus 2012, Jez Humble discusses strategies for implementing continuous delivery.
Luke Galea01/05/13
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For testing Ashley Madison, we use the now deprecated Selenium RC, for reasons I will touch upon later, with all code being written in Ruby.
Ashish Kuthiala01/04/13
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Businesses across all sectors are trying to deliver web applications to their customers faster than ever before, empowered by Agile development practices.
Eric Gregory01/04/13
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A sign of the times, perhaps, for DevOps: IBM IT Services has sponsored this two-minute Frost & Sullivan brief defining DevOps and outlining its potential.
Maarten Ectors01/04/13
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If you haven’t heart of Arduino or Raspberry Pi, then you need to get up to speed urgently. Arduino is revolutionizing hardware and gadget innovations.
Eric Minick01/04/13
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The analysts agree, uDeploy and its competitors are “Application Release Automation” tools. We used the same term on our website. Unfortunately, “Application Release Automation” is a bad description for this class of tools.
Eric Gregory01/03/13
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Canonical announced today that Ubuntu is headed for smartphones, touting the full capability of a Linux PC in a gesture-based mobile version of the OS. If you think you'll use it, what kind of projects do you have in mind?
Mark Needham01/03/13
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We were building an internal application for an insurance company and didn’t have any idea how difficult it was going to be to put something into production so we decided to find out on the first day of the project.
Erich Styger01/03/13
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Controlling a LED is a great starter for any embedded project: simple and you immediately get feedback if it works.
Mark Needham01/03/13
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I’ve been playing around with writing some algorithms in both Ruby and Haskell and the latter wasn’t giving the correct result so I wanted to output an intermediate state of the two programs and compare them.
Mikko Ohtamaa01/02/13
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When you run VPS servers or other “low end” boxes it is common scenario need to setup a outgoing email mail transfer agent to get reports from cron jobs or enable PHP scripts to send email.
Eric Minick01/02/13
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We include a built in package repository, CodeStation, with AnthillPro, uBuild and uDeploy. They also integrate with third party repos. We place much emphasis on this capability because it is critical for safety, governance and audit.
Eric Gregory01/02/13
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Looking to better understand networking in VirtualBox? Oracle's Fat Bloke offers an extremely detailed primer.
Umashankar Ankuri01/01/13
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JUnit is an open source framework designed by Kent Beck, Erich Gamma for the purpose of writing and running test cases for java programs. In the case of web applications JUnit is used to test the application with out server. This framework builds a relationship between development and testing process.
Eric Gregory01/01/13
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At the 2012 San Francisco JUC, Cloudbees' Toomas Romer and Anton Arhipov discuss continuous delivery: "Packages sent via FedEx go through a tracked, automated process that makes sure that the package arrives promptly at its destination..."
Mikko Ohtamaa01/01/13
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Skype is the most popular IM client with over 200 million monthly users. It’s easy and reliable: anyone can use it anywhere, even on mobile. When you are working with virtual teams, Skype group chats become vital tool of communication.
Mark Needham01/01/13
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Something that I’ve noticed when trying to install various different bundles is that the installation instructions which worked flawlessly on Snow Leopard don’t seem to do the job on Mountain Lion.
Mark Needham12/31/12
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For the first few years that I worked professionally* every project that I worked on was different enough to the previous ones that I was always learning something new without having to put much effort in.
Gareth Rushgrove12/31/12
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I’m a big fan of system packages for lots of reasons and have often ended up rolling my own debian package repository at work, or working with others that have done so. Recently I finally got round to setting up a personal package repo, at packages.garethrushgrove.com.
