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	Thursday, July 24, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 48 - Un-Nested Conditionals

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Welcome to the forty eighth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Colin is Nesting Conditionals while Joe is Un-Nesting them and Deb is building custom traps.
Joe and Colin had a interview with Jason Hoffman from Joyent and then Colin blogged about the tacos. Lori then managed to get into a heated conversation with the creator of ModSecurity.
In the forums, Joe talks about rate statistics and the updated Java iControl library and Deb discussed the LTM last hop feature and question on LTM wildcard vips. The topic of hopping bunnies then came up.
In the wiki, hoolio is at a tear with STREAM::match and STREAM::expression and Joe CodeShared his PsRateShapeStatistics tech tip.
And finally, we put to rest the question of minimizing your hops with Deb and Colin's Post of the Week.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iRules, iControl, ModSecurity, Joyent, Java, LTM, Steam, Post of the Week, Joe Pruitt, Deb Allen, Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie

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	Thursday, July 17, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 47 - Justifying Our Existence

submitted 1 week ago

Welcome to the forty seventh edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

This week, Don was dumping nodes and Joe was gracefully shutting them down while Jeff is off justifying our existence.
In the blogs Don talks about storage and where we go from here and Joe discusses Joyent helping LinkedIn scale their BumperSticker Facebook app to 1 billion page views per month.
In the forums this week, we have questions on Removing iRules, Graceful Server Stop, License for iControl.jar, and Renaming Files in transit.
Joe added the PsPoolMemberControl CodeShare sample and Don updated the LocalLB::Rule::delete_rule() documentation.
We end things up talking about Deb's latest Post of the Week on Application Health Monitors on alternate ports.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Pool Member, Storage, Joyent, LinkedIn, iRules, iControl, CodeShare, Health Monitors, Joe Pruitt, Don Mac Vittie, Colin Walker

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	Thursday, July 10, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 46 - Gremlins in the Audio Machine

submitted 2 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty sixth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Due to a gremlin in the audio machine, this weeks audio recording was lost. If you are feeling brave, go ahead and listen to Joe's 3 minute recap of what we all said in the actual podcast.
In the tech tips, Colin is LoJacking Cookies, Don is iControlling VIPRION, and Joe is converting time.
Colin is loving Ubuntu and Don has been overtagging his blogs.
In the wikis, user hoolio has updated the STREAM::expression docs.
In the forums, Joe talks about epoch time, General System properties, and removing part of a cookie.
Deb posted a whiteboard on Application Health Monitors Response Strings and Joe talks about how Apache is bringing the "fun" back to Java and how corporate blogs are failures.
Don finishes things up with a big thumbs up for the ASUS EEE support group.
Depending on how you all like this condensed format, maybe we'll shrink all our podcasts down to 3 minutes B-).

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Gremlin, Cookies, iControl, VIPRION, Ubuntu, time, Health Monitors, ASUS EEE PC, Don Mac Vittie, Colin Walker, Jeff Browning, Joe Pruitt

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	Thursday, July 03, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 45 - Loran and Ali

submitted 3 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty fifth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Joe is Tech Tipping with Local Traffic Maps and Deb is working on Default Gateways per VLAN.
In the forums, iControl topics include methods for connections, clearing the RAM Cache, and Java assembly compiler dependencies. When to iRule and nested quotes within custom responses are lurking in the iRules threads. And in more general topics, Complex Session Matching, GTM vs. LTM modules, as well as 6400 base memory questions are covered.
In the blogs, Don is boycotting twitter and Joe is analyzing more Japanese F5 Marketing.
Deb held a interview on The Future of the Desktop with some F5 TMMs and whiteboard her way through Persisting Across Virtual Servers.
And Joe gives kudos to Slashdot user Precisions post on using an iRule to stop AVG flooding spam.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, VLAN, RAM Cache, Java, iRules, GTM, LTM, Twittervision, Virtualization, Slashdot, AVG

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	Thursday, June 26, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 44 - Retake!

submitted 4 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty forth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips, Joe is Summarizing Local Traffic, Deb is wildly switching, and Don is finally accepted by DDJ thanks to kSOAP2.
Joe is blogging about Japanese Marketing with iRules, TMOS, and FirePass. Don't miss the hidden benefits that FirePass can provide you! Colin is 20LoL'ing, Don is dealing with long long lines, and Jeff says "I may be small, but iRule".
In the forums, the topic of iControl Licensing comes up.
Deb comments on wiki updates including X509, session and persist command updates, Events for UDP Virtual Servers, and Client Auth using HTML forms.
In the media this week, be on the lookout for Joe's impression of Benny Hill, Deb and Colin's POTW on Route Health Injection, and SME videos on Election Hash Load Balancing and Universal Persistence with SSL offload.
The show rounds up with Jeff talking about DevCentral IT planning and Joe's picks on twitter accounts to follow.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, DDJ, kSOAP2, 20LoL, iRules, Licensing, UDP, X509, HTML, SME, twitter

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	Thursday, June 19, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 43 - Plus One

submitted 5 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty third edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Deb is Stacking iRules (not to be confused with stacking cups), Joe is Streaming Profiles, and Colin is fixin WSDLs. in this week's Tech Tips.
In the blogs, Colin gives us his favorite 20LoL and Don goes over Social Networking and Social Networking.
Joe goes over some forum posts on the Notification API, as well as calling iControl methods on older products as well as Regex's in iRules.
GTM is highlighted in the wikis with a callout for whereis and a dose of HTTP and TCP collect for good measure.
We finish things up with video postings on Message Broker Resiliency, Active Active Database Load Balancing, and Configuring BIG-IP WebAccelerator.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iRules 101, WSDL, Stream Profile, Social Networking, iControl 101, GTM, TCP, HTTP, Message Broker, Database, Load Balancing, BIG-IP, WebAccelerator

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	Thursday, June 12, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 42 - The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

submitted 6 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty second edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In episode 42, Joe and Deb provide The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything - thanks Doug!
Deb is disabling event processing while Joe is mirroring his ports.
Joe discusses a controversy between a iRule Editor "feature" and it's inconsistency with the admin GUI.
Lori's weekly tome of blog posts are reviewed with awe.
Deb's post of the week her hitting the beaches in Miami with Switching Gone Wild.
A pyControl interview and video tutorials have been posted.
Deb in polishing up the GTM and DNS iRule documentation in the wiki.
And Joe finishes things up talking about the current DevCentral datacenter migration project.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, 42, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, PortMirror, iRule Editor, switch, pyControl, GTM, DNS

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	Thursday, June 05, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 41 - Super Secret Stuff

submitted 7 weeks ago

Welcome to the forty first edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Joe covers a bunch of forum posts surrounding the iRule Editor.
Don talks about his new super secret labs project: the Redirector that will be released tomorrow.
Deb plays both sides of the BIG-IP coin with topics on Passive Monitoring with LTM and Selective Persistence with GTM.
Joe's tech tip this week was on managing Self IP addresses.
Joe seeks help on his version of the ABC Car Word Game - he needs a networking letter for Y.
In the POTW this week, Deb and Colin have been disposing their content.
And Lori is blogging us all to shame with security impacts of API deprecation, blogging 101, and calculating twitter costs.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iRule Editor, Monitoring, LTM, GTM, Persistence, ABCs, Post of the Week, Blogging, Twitter

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	Thursday, May 29, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 40 - Skinning the Cat

submitted 8 weeks ago

Welcome to the fortieth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Don talks about Creating Virtuals Simplified and Deb gives guidance on building custom WebAccelerator policies.
In the blogs, Colin is 20LoL'ing again and looking into the future of media over broadband. With all the talk of network bandwidth, Deb is reminded of the 300 baud club.
Joe points out posts about PowerGUI and Partition lists in the iControl forums and the team discusses the many ways to skin a cat with the stripping data thread.
The Wikis continue to see traffic with major enhancements to the Credit Card Scrubber iRule as well as the new RTSP commands that are now officially released.
Things round up with a discussion of the Post of the Week topic on Layered App Monitoring (soon to be shot with puppets) and Don's latest DC Newsletter.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Virtuals, WebAccelerator, 20LoL, PowerShell, iRules, iControl, RTSP, Monitoring

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	Tuesday, May 27, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 39 - Konnichiwa

submitted 8 weeks ago

Welcome to the thirty ninth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Joe and Jeff call in from Tokyo discussing the first DevCentral Japan user group meeting, the F5 Japan partner conference, the awesomeness that is the Japan Marketing team, and Sumo wagering.
Deb and Colin recap this weeks internal meetings with iRules and iControl experts. The consensus is that iControl is "The Next iRules".
Don goes over automation and iC2I. His latest article is on the simplified way to create a virtual server. Deb's tech tip this week was on rewriting redirects and Colin's was on Non-English DNS requests.
Colin has been Ranting about iRules, and LoL-ing his 20 again.
And in the forums, Don mentions blacklisting certificate lists and Deb talks about Load Balancing only to one peer, Remote logging from mutliple LTM's to the same TMM, and Monitoring a windows service.

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Technorati Tags: F5,DevCentral,Tokyo,User Group,Sumo,iRules,iControl,iC2I,Redirects,DNS,20LoL,LTM,TMM

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	Thursday, May 15, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 38 - Pwned

submitted 10 weeks ago

Welcome to the thirty eighth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the Tech Tips, Joe is Disabling Node Servers, Colin is Selectively auth'ing Client Certs, Don is Done dumping, and Lori is iControlling her Ajax.
Forum posts of note cover LB to only one peer if computer is down and Load Balancing Corba.
Colin is blogging about his non-existent iPhone, Don says New Glarus and Modeling don't mix, Joe is Networking his ABC's with WAN, and Jeff points out the top contributors.
In the Wiki, The ProxyPass iRule continues to gain attention and Deb is rocking on the documentation.
In media, Don has completely audio-i-fied iC2I, Deb and Colin POTW'ed Action on Service Down, and Joe continued the weeks Daily News.
Jeff, as usual, got the last word in regarding his and Joe's trip to Tokyo next week for a DevCentral user group meeting and partner conference.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Ajax, Client Certs, Corba, iPhone, Contributors, DCTVPOTW, Tokyo

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	Thursday, May 08, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 37 - Rollin Twenties

submitted 11 weeks ago

Welcome to the thirty seventh edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the Tech Tips, Deb is covering iRule Interference; Don is Virtually Dumping and iRule'ing virtuals; Colin is Encrypting Arrays, and Joe is Automating Licenses.
Colin is blogging about free MP3s and LoL'ing at his 20 lines; Don is Deep in the Hoopla and thinking about What a Wonderful World it would be; Joe is Teeing his Tickles, U'ing his URLs, and Vee-ing his VIPs; and Jeff is pondering Golf over Bowling balls.
In the forums we've got Pool Members status of Wideips, Browser type decisions, Single Virtual IP for Exchange, and Outbound SNAT matching.
DNS is ruling the CodeShare this week.
Deb and Colin are working on a new Post of the Week covering LTM Routing and Multiple Gateways;
the Daily News covered a whole bunch of stuff that caused an internal debate and Don offers up a new gadget.
Jeff finishes things off with a note to the Peanut Gallery.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iRule, Encryption, Arrays, Licensing, MP3s, Wideip, User-Agent, Exchange, SNAT, Peanut Gallery

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	Thursday, May 01, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 36 - Colin gets a new project

submitted 12 weeks ago

Welcome to the thirty sixth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips this week, Joe goes over Data Groups with iControl, Deb is Validating Your Logic, and Don is Creating Virtuals, the easy way.
Joe continued his Networking ABC's with O, P, Q, and R. Jeff talks about Virtualization, advice you can use, as well as CLI's vs. API's. And Don finishes off the blog coverage with SpamBOTs and DNS lookups with a bit of 90's flashback thrown in for good measure.
Several DNS focused Samples were added to the CodeShare this week along with updates to the iControl DBVariable interface and a sample syslog-ng configuration for setting up email.
In the forums, Joe talks about Pool Member State and the infamous 3-way-GUI-toggle, as well as issuing syslog commands from iControl.
Deb rounds it off with a little DNS on GTM.
The DCTVPOTW continues this week with a whiteboard session on VIP Bounceback and server callbacks.
Jeff and Joe finish things off with a little talk about Interop and site upgrades respectively.

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	Friday, April 25, 2008 #

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 35 - Identity Crisis

submitted 12 weeks ago

Welcome to the thirty fifth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips this week, Joe is digging into the database, don is determining effects if iRule changes, Colin is scanning, and Deb exposed GTM's identity crisis.
Joe comments on some forum posts about