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DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 7 - Partner Conference and Documentation

Colin is off sipping Mai Tais talking about iRules at our F5 Partner/Reseller conference in Chicago.
Jeff recaps his first day at the conference mentioning the flaky wireless network as well as Joe Skorupa's talk about regulatory issues with data centralization and the dramatic increase in round trips per page request in current web applications.
Joe mentions a blog post he read about how F5 "re-won" a customer.
Deb talks about recent forum activity on handling SFTP traffic, GTM fallback based on DNS server, modifying SNMP community strings with EM templates, and her recent updates to the iRule persist wiki page.
Joe recaps his latest documentation rampage including an iControl SDK walkthrough, Getting started with iControl v9, Traffic Generation with the iRule Editor, and Application Request Parsing.
The team then discusses several TCL based resources on the web. The TCL Reference at SourceForge, A TCL Tutorial, A TCL Tutor, ActiveTCL, and the iRule Editor.
Don has finished up his iRules Java Wrapper documentation (all 31 pages of it) and hints that the Labs site should be live next week. Jeff even volunteered to load up Eclipse to try it out (if, that is, he can find his PowerPoint to Java translator).


posted @ Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:04 PM | Feedback (0)

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 6 - Best Practices

Colin recaps our meeting with a DevCentral users on Thursday and discusses feedback on how we should work on "Best Practices" documents and the team talks about how we can help in that area.
Jeff points to some "Must Read Content" that Colin recently wrote. He throws a shoutout to DC user Citizen Elah for his recent contributions. He then talks about the realities and disappointment of app and network teams not communicating.
Joe throws some kudos to DC user aherrman for contributing source changes for the iRule Editor. He discusses some new possible features with the Editor such as profiling enhancements and VIP Gauge reporting. Jeff notes that he wants this feature added. He finishes with his iRule Editor tip of the week.
Don is finishing up the Java wrappers for iControl and discusses his "Best Practices" regarding documenting development projects. He also wonders about the millions of users who are reading our latest newsletter and how they are being conjured up.
Deb discusses using EM Templates to deploy multiple instances of the same iRule and specifically about a slick solution to global variable name collision. Citizen Elah receives his second shoutout for his contribution of the GTM Deployment Prescriptive Architecture.
Jeff finishes up referencing Dan's post about "Where have you used an SSL VPN" and alludes to an new "Question of the Week" feature of DC.


posted @ Monday, July 23, 2007 10:14 AM | Feedback (0)

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 5 - The Gangs All Here

Deb highlights last Monday's release of the Advanced Design and Config content and wiki on DevCentral. She also talks about the new CodeShare Sections for EM Templates, LTM Profiles, and Monitors.
Colin jumps in and hints at upcoming tutorials on persistence and http redirection. He also discusses the latest work he's been doing on enhancing DevCentral Search.
Joe talks about the fairly unknown FirePass CLI along with some recently added Helper Scripts. He also discusses a forum thread on HTTP URI rewriting.
Don covers what he thinks is "cool" in the iControl API after digging into it for his Java Wrapper project. He discusses how the API can help to avoid a 2:00AM pager alert!
Shout outs to DevCentral users hoolio and slarson74 for their great contributions to the wiki and forums.


posted @ Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:53 PM | Feedback (0)