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I recently received an internal iRule email and one of our folks created a search provider for FireFox to search DevCentral. Lori quickly responded and asked if we could get this posted to DevCentral. Why not if it will help the community so I took a look. Then it occurred to me that a while back I created a search provider definition based on the OpenSearch specification. For some reason, on our last site refresh, the links in our website were removed so the browser didn’t natively pick them up. I fixed that so now you can add DevCentral as...
Hot off the presses: Steve Jobs to step down from day to day operations at Apple! Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought. In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus...
Welcome to this addition of the PowerShell ABC's where you'll find 26 posts detailing a component of the PowerShell scripting language, one letter at a time. Today's letter is the letter "D". For "D" I've picked the a term that most everyone who writes scripts needs to understand. The word for today is debugging. Debugging is a very large category so I'll scan over the various components and dig more into script level debugging since that is what most users will use most often. Basic Error Handling PowerShell implements two types of errors: terminating and non-terminating. Terminating errors will...
Welcome to this addition of the PowerShell ABC's where you'll find 26 posts detailing a component of the PowerShell scripting language, one letter at a time. Today's letter is the letter "B". For "B" I've opted to go with a keyword that you likely don't know about but can allow you write script level functions that behave like compiled Cmdlets. The word for today is "begin"
Most PowerShell users write script level functions as standalone statements that work on values in the pipeline but since functions run all at once, they cannot do streaming processing. Filters can be used run...
Well, now that I've got the Networking and Social Media ABC's completed it's time for another round of glossary fun and games. Being from a development background, I figure it's about time to focus on something a little more technical. For a while now, I've been toying with the PowerShell scripting language from Microsoft so I figure that's as good a place as any to get started on a new series. So, in the next 28 work days or so, be on the looking for another ABC listing of all the need goodies in the PowerShell language. Since there's...
Well, yesterday's post brings to a close the 26 days of Social Media ABCs. For those who missed them all, here's a full listing of all the words I came up with for my version of the Social Media ABC's A To Z: Aggregation: Aggregation is the process of gathering and remixing content from blogs and other websites that provide "feeds" of their data. This most commonly occurs with the RSS syndication format, but also can be with other technologies as well. The results may be displayed in an aggregator website such as Bloglines or Google Reader, or...
Welcome to my series of blog posts on the ABC's of Social Media, a tool that you can use to make you more "hip" in the world of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (just to name a few). Today's letter is "Z". There aren't many Z words directly relating to Social Media but I think I've found one that actually applies to me. Are you one of those who will join any and all Social Media services just because everyone else is? Then, like I, you are a Social Media Zombie. "Z" is for Zombie Zombie Pronounced: Zom-bee It...
Welcome to my series of blog posts on the ABC's of Social Media, a tool that you can use to make you more "hip" in the world of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (just to name a few). Today's letter is "Y". Y was a pretty hard letter to come up with social media terms for so I'm going to default to the major way viral videos make it onto the Internet. With over 5 billion online videos viewed in July 2008, YouTube is definitely a force in social media. "Y" is for YouTube YouTube Pronounced: Yoo-Toob Founded in 2005...
It's fairly common knowledge that the Coyote has had trouble catching the Road Runner. Good old Wile E. has tried since 1948 and has yet to capture his elusive pray but unfortunately for the Road Runner, there's a new predator close on his tail. For those who don't know, Top500.org is a project that was established in 1993 to assemble and maintain a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world. They have been compiling a list twice a year since their inception with the help of high-performance computer experts, computational scientists, manufacturers, and the Internet...
Here's the forth clip from our little band's opening for one heck of a great group at our recent sales conference. It's Meow Meow time with a "Little bag of bones been out all night" and while "Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it" but you can't, how about "watching" it instead. Here's Kitty! Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, The Encrypted Packets, Presidents of the United States, PUSA, Joe Pruitt
Here's the third clip from our little band's opening for one heck of a great group at our recent sales conference. For all you Wierd Al fans out there, you may say to yourself that this song sounds a lot like "Gump". We'll it does, because this is the song that is the source for that parody. So, don't "sit alone in a boggy marsh" and definitely don't let "mud flow up into your pajamas". Just sit back and watch PUSA playing Lump! Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, The...
As I mentioned yesterday, our little band had the pleasure of opening for one heck of a great group at our recent sales conference. Here is part 2 with a few more to come of the Presidents of the United States playing on of my favorites. So, let's "take a little naps where the roots all twist, squished a rotten peach in my fist and dreamed about you, woman..." Here's some good and yummy Peaches for your viewing pleasure. Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,The Encrypted Packets,The Presidents of the United...
Our little band had the pleasure of opening for one heck of a great group at our recent sales conference. Luckily I had my camcorder along for part of their set. The audio is a little distorted but seeing how I was a body length away from their amps, there wasn't much I could do about it. So, without further ado, get "happy with no teeth", be "happy here in hibernation", get "slurpin' on a peach", and start "staring' at the situation" - on the Back Porch! Technorati...
I recently blogged about a new type of browser vulnerability called ClickJacking aimed at tricking you into clicking on something you weren't aware you were clicking on. The idea is that the bad guy hides a button by making it invisible and then "moves" it under you mouse right before you click thus causing you to either submit information, download something harmful, or start a process on your computer such as a webcam. Luckily there is a FireFox plugin to help protect you from those bad guys. But what happens when the bad guys move away from the browser...
Welcome to my series of blog posts on the ABC's of Social Media, a tool that you can use to make you more "hip" in the world of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (just to name a few). Today's letter is "X". There aren't many "X" words in relation to Social Media so I opted for a word that is part of the underlying plumbing needed to make blogs and other web 2.0 social applications usable. Today I picked the infamous XMLHttpRequest. "X" is for XMLHttpRequest XMLHttpRequest Pronounced: Eks-em-el Eych-tee-tee-pee Ri-kwest XMLHttpRequest, or XHR, is a XML DOM API...
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