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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...
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...
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...
It’s Friday! Your work week is wrapping up (most of you, anyway) or perhaps it’s even over already, depending on your time zone. You’re looking forward to your weekend and trying to wrap up the last few loose ends at work to get yourself set up for a solid Monday. One of those things should be this week’s Top 5. With the 5 coolest things to grace DevCentral this week in hand, you can go spread the good word about how cool this stuff is to anyone that will listen. Well, that’s what I do, anyway. You do with it...
After another few blazingly fast weeks in the DevCentral world, I’m back with another injection of wicked cool topics from DC land. From upgrades to slick iRules to Australian escapades, to holidays, there has been much afoot as always, and there is much goodness to report on. With that, let’s get right to this week’s Top 5: SSL Profiles Part 3: Certificate Chain Implementation http://bit.ly/eAfvMW Jason is three parts into his amazing SSL Profiles series already, and I’m a major fan. In this series he’s tearing open the protocol and describing exactly how it...
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...
Part of the joy and pain of picking the Top 5 is the embarrassment of options available. If I were to go on and list all of the things that I think you should probably read each week on DevCentral this would likely turn into a top 72 or something far less catchy and consumable than the Top 5. As such, I encourage implore you to read through the goodness that gets most unfortunately left out of these lists by checking out DevCentral yourself. Now then, before I get to the actual topics, I want to take a...
Many people in the networking world are aware of BIG-IP as a powerful load balancing and security device. Those that don’t dig deeper, however, are truly missing out on the incredible features just below the surface. Sure load balancing and security policies are interesting and important, but what truly makes BIG-IP stand out from the crowd, at least in my opinion, is the immense breadth of functionality available via the programmatic interfaces of the system, namely iRules, iControl and now tmsh. To me these are the most exciting, intriguing things happening in the market right now. Network side scripting, full...
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...
It's been busy! The DevCentral team and all of the awesome people in our extended family have been working away, putting out all kinds of great content for your perusal. Now that we're out of the hardcore v10 push and back into a more "normal" flow of content there has been a myriad of tasty morsels flowing through the DC channels. From a posh search experience to security secrets and new wrappers, we've had plenty to talk about. Let's get to this week's Top5: The Secret of the Security Safety Dance http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/06/03/the-secret-of-the-security-safety-dance.aspx This week Lori...
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...
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...
To accompany the big announcement happening on f5.com today, we're rolling out all kinds of new content on DevCentral as well. We've got tech tips and blogs, forum posts and wiki entries...it's a veritable cornucopia of technical goodness to show off some of the awesome new features in BIG-IP v10. This release packs a punch, and it's definitely worth it to check out some of the new things you can do.
To help you get started, we've got a v10 page where you can go to keep your finger on the pulse of the new content we're pushing out surrounding...
I can't believe it's only the second week of this year's Top5 series. There are so many things going on that it feels like it's been weeks since I wrote last. I know the output to the site has only been bumped up marginally but trust me, things behind the scenes are beyond busy trying to get things ramped up, polished and ready to push hard all through the year. This week saw some continued series', a couple of really interesting new blog / docs posts, and plenty of awesome action in the forums / wikis. Here's this week's Top5:
Accuracy...
Wow it's been a busy month! Travel, holidays, and so much great content coursing through DevCentral it could make your head spin. I'll do my best, as always, to guide you through the massive amounts of cool stuff and pick out a few of the gems for you to dig into. This week's Top5 is action-packed, with F5/Geeky goodness bursting from every seam, so make sure you check out each of the items below. That said, here's this week's Top5:
F5 ARX and Data Domain - Reduced Expense, Streamlined Storage
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/dmacvittie/archive/2008/12/11/f5-arx-and-data-domain---reduced-expense-streamlined-storage.aspx
Don recently got a chance to chat with some of the folks...
It's day 3 of my week long Tokyo adventure. Day 2 kind of disappeared into the ether with meetings and prep for meetings and forum posts and the like, so no blog post for day 2, even though it was quite a good day. Today though, day 3, has been outstanding so far. I just got back from an awesome customer visit with some really cool engineers. We talked geek, we white-boarded, we wrote some code and pontificated about possible solutions to problems they're having as well as future solutions they want to put in place...it was hawesome. It...
Today is the first day of my Tokyo adventure. I'm in our Akasaka office talking with sales folks and engineers about...pause for dramatic effect....iRules and iControl. I know, you're shocked. This is my first trip to Japan and I'm loving it so far. Although it's a bit of a hike on the plane and I'm now starting to wane (it's 1:30ish PM here...17 hours ahead is a lot) thanks to the change in sleep schedule, the trip has been good so far. Today I got to meet the rest of the team here that I didn't already know...
The past few weeks have brought with them plenty of travel, a pair of cool conferences, a great chance to spread the DC/F5 word about application goodness and integration, and much killer content flittering its way across DC's ever present feeds and pages. Now that I'm back in stride and the wake from the recent happenings has cleared I'm here yet again, as you know I would be, to point you towards some of the many cool things happening on DevCentral this week. Here's this week's DC Top5: Investigating the LTM TCP Profile: Nagle's Algorithm http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=282...
In this special Monday edition of the DC Top5 I'll recap last week's must see DevCentral hits. Along with the standard fare of cool tech info and insight, we've got another new series to introduce from a new member of the DC blogging family. I also get to share some news that got me pretty excited to hear on a somewhat personal level, though it definitely relates to our industry even if in a somewhat tangential manner. All that and more in this (last?) week's DC Top5: Protocol of the Week http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/kris/archive/2008/09/26/protocol-of-the-week.aspx Kris Plunkett is...
It's been a long month this week. Things have been blurring as they go whizzing by and I'm just trying to keep up. If I'm feeling like there's a lot going on, then that must mean that there's even more than normal going on with DevCentral. Hopefully that's an indication that there's more reason than ever to keep putting out the Top5. I'll doll out my picks from the week that I think are "must see" items amongst the torrential cascade of content that is DevCentral as I always do, and hope that you all agree. That said, here's this...
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 ...
So it looks like Joe and I are going to have to take a trip down to San Fran to check out Nick's Crispy Tacos with Jason Hoffman, CTO and co-founder of Joyent. Jason puts on a "Taco Tuesday" on the third Tuesday of just about every month. We've been invited down to check it out and geek out over the hawesome iRules/iControl/Ruby/*Nix/geeky stuff they're doing. Yeah...I'm not completely geeking out and excited, honest. Don't worry though, we'll try to make the best of it.
We got a fantastic opportunity today to talk with Jason about Joyent, what they're doing, their...
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 ...
Today I'm getting the chance to sit in with some fellow iRulers here at F5 and chat about this technology we love. This is a multi-day event, so I won't be able to sit in for every hour of it, but I'm trying to soak up as much of the geeky goodness as I can while I'm able to play with the cool kids. It's pretty hawesome to see this much knowledge and experience in one room, with such a broad range of perspectives and stories to tell about what the technology can do, where it should be heading,...
