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We're putting the band back together. And by band, I mean team. And by "putting back together" I mean we're all going to be in the same place, physically. This is a rarity for our remotely distributed team, but next week it is happening, and that is a great thing. It means planning, policies, preparation, prognostication and many other things that don't begin with the same letter. It also means that there will be some new, cool things to look forward to in what will likely be the near future, from a DevCentral perspective. Rarely do we get the whole...
The holidays have passed, the new year is upon us and there is much geeky goodness to be thankful for. I am thankful for the forums and the wikis, the tech tips and blogs. I am thankful for the outstanding community that drives it all, and the supporting cast of hundreds within F5 that helps support this DevCentral thing we get to do. I am so thankful, in fact, that I am here to share five of my favorite recent DevCentral additions with you. Hurried over the holidays? Nagged after the new year? Fall behind on your feeds? Never fear,...
The 20 Lines or Less, the DC weekly podcast, 99% of the hundreds of blogs Don and Lori seem to put out each week...these are but a few of the things you won't see this week in the DC Top 5. With as good as the content is that's getting left out, you can only imagine how good the stuff that made the cut is. It's been a jam packed few weeks since the last installment. I've survived, somehow, and I'm here to tell the story of what DevCentral's been up to, at least this last week. So check it...
While the groundhog may have promised an early spring, we’re still feeling the chill here in Seattle. Naturally though that hasn’t impeded the content marching its way across DevCentral in the past weeks. We’ve had everything from awesome blogs and Tech Tips to user contributed content to the triumphant (hopefully) return of a long lost series now born anew. This is your place to find out about all of that and more, as always, as I offer you this week’s DC Top5: Post of the Week - Regular Expressions http://bit.ly/e1m4Ri The aforementioned series being reborn...
If your week has been anything like mine, then you’ve had plenty to keep you busy. While I’d like to think that your “busy” equates to as much time on DevCentral checking out the cool happenings while people get their geek on as mine does, I understand that’s less than likely. Fortunately, though, there is a mechanism by which I can distribute said geeky goodness for your avid assimilation. I give to you, the DC Top 5: iRuling the New FSE Crop http://bit.ly/f1JIiM Easily my favorite thing that happened this week was something I was...
This week brought new meaning to the old, familiar phrase “so overstuffed with goodness it’s unknowable”. Well okay, maybe it’s a silly new phrase I just made up, but that doesn’t change the fact that this was yet another killer week for content on DevCentral. There were forum posts by the hundreds, blog posts by the dozen and tech tips a plenty. There was even some twitter inspired swan diving silliness. Through all of that I’ve picked what I thought were some of the most interesting things out of the bunch to highlight. To be fair, though, I could have...
Settling into the new year there is goodness a plenty on DevCentral this week. Between group revamps, site improvements and maintenance, including trimming the page size down to a more svelte, downloadable size, and the general content screaming across the front page there has been a lot to keep up on. Here are my Top 5 picks for the week to help you out: Revisiting Hash Load Balancing and Persistence on BIG-IP LTM http://bit.ly/h7etBK As I may have hinted at last week, Jason had more tricks up his sleeve in regards to hash load balancing on the...
We made it! We’ve survived another year and as such are one step closer to the future we’ve been promised for so long, complete with jetpacks, teleporters and press-button meal preparation. That’s my hope, at least. While we’re all just sitting around, waiting for such amenities to arrive, I bring to you some reading to entertain and educate. This week we have an overabundance of options to pick from so I apologize in advance for any wicked cool content that gets left out. What did make it in, though, are a couple of the coolest iRules I’ve seen written in...
We’ve survived the ghouls, ghosts and goblins which means it’s now time for gobbling, guests and gastronomy galore. Through it all DevCentral continues to be a steady, reliable source for hard to beat technical how-to docs and commentary. With more community involvement and action than ever before it’s a great time to be a part of the DevCentral movement so get on board if you haven’t already, and bring your friends. This week I’ve got some great stuff for you, including an exclusive interview with iHealth’s proud uncle, Matt DuHarte, to get you the low down on that...
Adding to the already wicked cool selection of stuff I get to talk about on a weekly basis, we’re starting to see more and more content submissions outside of normal forums use from our user base. It’s fantastic to see folks contributing articles that share their first-hand experience using F5 gear with others. This week I get a chance to talk about two different MVP contributed Tech Tips that are both interesting as well as educational. It’s been a good week so sit down, buckle up and let’s hit the DevCentral Top 5: It’s Midnight. Do You Know Where...
Many happenings abound these days, enough that it's hard for even me to keep track of them all. Amongst them in the past couple weeks have been wicked cool iRules projects, video projects, and likely most importantly of all, the expansion of the DevCentral team. Some of it I can talk about, some of it is still secret squirrel status, but here's what I can tell you for sure: there is no shortage if hawesome stuff to be seen on DevCentral. Here are five things, as a matter of fact, that you definitely shouldn't miss. I give you this week's...
This week I bring to you a full house of content, docs over blogs. To say there have been more than a few pairs on DevCentral lately though would be an understatement. The rush of content could be likened to an avalanche but without the messy death and destruction bits to deal with. From interviews to tech tips to blog posts to original songs pertaining to cloud computing (no, I'm not joking, and no, the link isn't in here…go find it yourself), DevCentral never seems to sleep these days, which is just how we like it. In case you're overwhelmed...
The hits just keep on coming. Between the release of the LTM VE, some internal DC projects that are brewing, some new site stuff we're trying to polish up, and all that daily stuff that just keeps showing up out of nowhere, there has been no shortage of distractions. There has also, however, been no shortage of amazing content cruising through DevCentral, so this week's Top5 is packed full of it. You know there's a lot of cool stuff out there when I actually had to make a list of about 15 things I'd like to highlight and start whittling...
There has been plenty to do the past couple of weeks, which means there's plenty to talk about today. Ranging from gaming to storage virtualization to interviews and more, I bring you my Top 5 picks of the week from DevCentral. And yes, of course there are some iRules in there. Here's your Top5: Delivering SaaS Solutions with Hobsons Patrick McFadin http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/interviews/archive/2009/12/07/delivering-saas-solutions-with-hobsons-patrick-mcfadin.aspx In this interview with Patrick McFadin, Ken Salchow talks about software as a service, virtualization, spikes in traffic causing delivery challenges, and more. Perhaps more importantly the two talk about how F5's offerings,...
Released into the wild, the DevCentral team is back from our week of being sequestered in a conference room discussing the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Well…everything as it pertains to DC, at least. We even rolled successfully to save against being mauled by zombies or turned into newts (hey…it's almost Halloween, gimme a break…). As such there is plenty of content to pour through this week, including a very cool talk with a newbie to the F5 family. As always I'll give you my picks and hope they serve you well. Here is the Top5 for this...
After some much needed vacation I'm back at the helm this week to deliver your Top5. I'm sure you've managed to find some tasty morsels on DevCentral while I was away, but hopefully I'll be able to help out and point you in the direction of some more DC goodness now that I'm back. The past couple weeks have been busy and I have only 5 slots to fill with my picks, so make sure to keep checking out DevCentral if you're looking for more, but here is this week's Top5: DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 107 -...
The extended DevCentral team has been hard at work this week, as always, fulfilling your geek needs and then some. As such, this Friday's Top5 brings to you all types of DevCentral-y goodness. From text, to audio, to informative pictures, we've got it all this week. I've picked a few of the best, five to be exact, to share with you. Here they are: The Threat Behind the Firewall http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/psilva/archive/2009/09/09/the-threat-behind-the-firewall.aspx Pete Silva dives into drives this week in his piece on the dangers lurking behind seemingly benign usb drives. These undeniably handy devices can do...
Summer vacations, travel and distractingly favorable weather may interrupt the normal work weeks for some, but they can't stop the content. DevCentral has been alive and well through these sunny days thanks to the blogs, docs and media cruising through from various contributors. With many irons in the fire, plans on the drawing board and other assorted clichés at work helping to drive the "Next Big Thing" for the DevCentral team, you can only expect to see things scale upward and onward in terms of content pacing. I'll try to help you keep up. To that end, here's this week's...
From Web Accelerator to iRules to the release of the new Management Pack, this week's Top5 has it all. As always, there was plenty going on this week on DevCentral. These are my picks that you've just got to check out. Whether it's because they're incredibly useful, interesting, or just plain cool, all of these are worth a read, or listen, as the case may be. Here's this week's Top5: Announcing the Release of the F5 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/sfisher/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-the-release-of-the-f5-management-pack-for-microsoft.aspx Aside from being the longest title of anything I've ever put...
Whether you're looking for the best bits of v10 coverage or how you can make SAP and your F5 devices work together, this week's Top5 has what you need. The v10 content just keeps on coming, with some great additions this week. It's been a busy week and there are also some excellent non-v10 specific things that warrant highlighting, so you'll get a mix of both this week. Getting right to it, here's this week's Top5: F5 and SAP Integration - Auto configuration and monitoring under BIG-IP v10 http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/nojan/archive/2009/04/17/f5-and-sap-integration---auto-configuration-and-monitoring-under.aspx A welcome post by Nojan gets...
Here we are, weeks after the announcement of BIG-IP v10, and the hits just keep on coming. It's been another busy, exciting week here in DevCentral-ville. There has been plenty going on to keep track of, and then some, so I'll try to distill it down a little, as always. That said, it's a shame to miss any of the great stuff that's coming out, so make sure to check the rest out for yourself. You're not here for all the content, though, just the best…well my Top5 picks, anyway. Here they are:
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It's an interesting relation that the more awesome, noteworthy content there is on DevCentral in a given week, the harder it is for me to narrow down what it is I want to call out in the Top5. That being said, this week is easily the toughest week to decide what to highlight in recent memory. With the BIG-IP v10 announcement dropping and the ensuing flood of killer content, there is an over abundance of options. That's a wonderful "problem" to have, though. I want to say this week especially that there are many killer things that are worth a...
Having failed to coerce the calendar to allow the Top5 to fall on April 1st, I'll have to leave you without any gag comments, Rick Roll links, or otherwise. That's just as well though, since there's plenty of goodness on DevCentral to cover this week. We've been busy, and that's usually a good thing. Hopefully you'll agree when I say it's reflected by more and more cool content. Here's your DevCentral Top5 for the week: iRules Event Order http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=344 I'm very pleased to present the definitive document of event order within iRules. It's been requested many times...
Goodness it's been a while since we've had a Top5, hasn't it? The past couple months have been insane for vacations/medical leave/paternity leave, etc on the DC team. Hopefully things are settling down now, and we can get back to our normal routine. Regardless, here I am, your faithful guide through the oceans of content on DevCentral, committed to bringing you a weekly sampling of the Top5 coolest new things that showed up on DevCentral. Even with parts of the team out, there's been lots of content, so buckle up, here's your Top5: Dear Data Center Guy http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/08/29/3572.aspx...
I'm back with another week's worth of DevCentral goodness for you. The DC team just keeps rocking along and putting out all sorts of awesome content. That is of course in my completely neutral, un-biased opinion. This week I'll take you through five more great reasons to visit DevCentral, ranging from an exclusive interview with Joyent's CTO and co-founder, to real-world examples of PowerShell coding in the wild, making use of the BIG-IP and iControl. That said, let's get to it. Here is your Top5 for this week: Scaling in the Cloud with Joyent's Jason Hoffman ...
After a Friday off for the holiday here in the states, we're back at it again, and DevCentral is as busy as ever. There's been some great content and some really fantastic banter alike on the site this week. Today we'll dive into cookie security, go back in time with iControl, and more, but not to worry, I'll step you through it all so you don't get lost in the white water of information rushing through DevCentral. Please keep all hands inside the raft, here's this week's Top5: Persistent and Persistence, What's the Difference? http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/07/11/3443.aspx ...
