Brian Gracely05/11/13
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Aaron talks with Bart Copeland (CEO - ActiveState) and John Wetherall (Developer Evangelist at ActiveState) about how developers are adopting DevOps models and how polyglot PaaS technologies are getting deployed in the enterprise.
Julien Danjou05/11/13
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One of my recent innocent tweet about Gerrit vs Github triggered much more reponses and debate that I expected it to. I realize that it might be worth explaining a bit what I meant, in a text longer than 140 characters.
Yuriy Lopotun05/10/13
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I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple dozen programmers, some of them successfully developing their career, some satisfied and staying in one place, and some fired.
Swizec Teller05/10/13
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This weekend I discovered a trick. I was at a friend’s place and as I was editing in the kitchen I realized that the chairs are terrible and the table is the wrong height.
Raymond Camden05/10/13
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Someone came up to me after my MAX session on web development debugging and asked for some advice on how to 'sell' unit testing to his clients.
Mikko Ohtamaa05/10/13
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Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can go to armory and choose the winning set for every code you’ll face.
Eric Gregory05/09/13
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This five minute talk from DevOps Days Austin 2013 compares a week in the life of a DevOps team to that of a traditional IT Ops team, drawing on ZeroTurnaround's DevOps and IT Ops Productivity Report for this year.
Eric Gregory05/09/13
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Today: web apps on a floppy, the guts of Google Glass, Apache's Giraph hits 1.0, and four reasons to learn SQL, even if you really, really don't want to.
Troy Hunt05/09/13
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Let’s check out exactly what’s going on here and you really need video to understand the fatal flaw in the logic of SSL logos coming down over HTTPS.
Dan Kuebrich05/09/13
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Let’s explore how request queueing affects applications in the non-PaaS world and what you can do about it.
Jay Fields05/08/13
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I recently typed out a long, thoughtful response in a textarea. I clicked submit, like I've done millions of times, and I got the dreaded "session expired" error message.
Eric Gregory05/08/13
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This week we're talking to Zemian Deng, a Java developer working for the Bank of New York Mellon.
Steven Lott05/08/13
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The extreme end of "paving the cowpaths" are people for whom the bug list is also the feature list. This is a very strange phenomenon, rarely seen, but still relevant to this review.
Trevor Parsons05/08/13
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Why do so many log management solutions ignore the ability to tail your logs or to get a live feed of what your most recent system events are?
Patrick Debois05/07/13
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Besides repeating the devops stories, we also need to seek diversity and make sure we keep adapting to situations.
Matt Rapczynski05/07/13
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What is a responsible way to use Grails with existing tables, and guarantee that it will not try to change those schema objects? If only Grails mapping had a simple way to turn off DDL on specific domains, but still retain the awesomeness of DRY methods like list(…), named queries, and even inserting/updating records through save(…). I present to you what I think is a reasonably elegant solution for this problem.
Trevor Parsons05/07/13
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All Logentries servers are configured for the UTC timezone. We use this as the default timezone for all internal data including customer’s logs. However, at the browser UI level we detect a user’s local timezone and present all dates in a more human friendly way, i.e. in the local time.
Nicolas Frankel05/07/13
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There’s no magic in how Deployit works, it uses existing parts of modern development environments, most notably CI servers. The only requirement is to have a dedicated Maven project that creates so-called DAR archives, which are nothing more than ZIP files wrapping all resources mandatory for a deployment.
Aaron Nichols05/06/13
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I just got back from Devops Days Austin. It was a really good conference. I think I enjoyed the speakers and Open Spaces at this event more than I did at Devops Days Mountain View last year. Huge props to the organizers and speakers for putting together such a great set of topics.
Mike Hadlow05/06/13
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A reverse proxy is server component that sits between the internet and your web servers. It accepts HTTP requests, provides various services, and forwards the requests to one or many servers.
Eric Gregory05/06/13
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Sebastien Lambla from Caffeine IT explores the basics of HTTP caching.
Kin Lane05/05/13
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I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout my life, across every region of this great country. While I agree with the intent of this statement, I have to declare that it isn't enough!
Eric Gregory05/05/13
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This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture.
Eric Gregory05/04/13
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Konstantin Haase delves into adding automatic Pull Request testing to Travis CI, exploring why pull requests are so powerful.
