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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.
 

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

Joe and Deb provide The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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 discussed.
Deb's post of the week has 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.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 41 - Super Secret Stuff

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.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 35 - Identity Crisis

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 adding VLAN's with pyControl, renaming virtuals, and an iRule Editor bug. Don chimes in on new users, redirects, and pawning off work to Deb and Colin.
In the blogs, Joe is ABC'ing with Nagle's algorithm and the SEADUG-1 recap. Jeff doesn't talk about virtualization. Colin is adding to his 20LoL's and comments on Captchas and Kittens. And Deb mentions "log"'s increased message size limit. Somehow Joe missed Don's contributions this week, be on the lookout next week.
In the wikis we have a new DNS Flood Protection and matchclass updates.
In the media front, Joe comments on the new show the DevCentral Daily and Colin and Deb are pushing DCTVPOTW with the new episode covering Changing LB Target Mid-Connection.
Jeff will be at Interop next week, twitter him and he might buy you a drink and a $3.99 steak and lobster dinner.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 34 - NyQuil Induced Genius

In the tech tips this week, Colin talks about Polymorphism, Joe does some Performance Graphing, and Deb plays the Dueling Timeouts.
Deb and Colin discussed this weeks Post of The Week.
Jeff doesn't want to get farked, Joe is Networking his ABCs, Colin is keeping it to 20, and Deb talks about Don's NyQuil induced genius.
In the forums there's switch globbing, the iControl Migration Analyzer, Valid Chars in VS Names, and GTM DNS Responses.
Wiki contributions include updates to persist and session as well as a a self-registering python based service.
Jeff mentions seeing a VIPRION hanging out with a screwdriver in the wild and his side job of judging cheesecake.
Joe mentions the Seattle User Group next Wednesday night and Jeff hints about an upcoming iRule based event. Stay tuned...

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 28 - Happy Feet

Colin recaps his own personal "Beerfest" while in Germany.
Debs been seeing SNMP popping up on the forums lately. She mentions an addition to a Cacti to support GTM.
Joe recaps some recent customer trips and reveals a new iRule optimization that he didn't know about. He talks about his tech tip on Events and a forum thread on iControl user console access.
Don talks up his tech tip on saving configurations with iControl.
Colin finishes things up recalling his temporary Blackberry service withdrawls and the joy when it came back. Don envisions Colin dancing with Happy Feet.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 10 - Back to our regularly scheduled program

The team talks about why we missed last weeks podcast.
Don talks about blackberry UI coding and going from 1024x768 to 10x10. Jeff loves his wife's iPhone (but won't get them for us...). Don discusses the $100 license fees for building Blackberry apps. Jeff wonders why google mail trys to tap into his Blackberry phone log. Don brings up recent questions regarding iControl's ConfigSync upload_file and download_file methods. Most questions resolve around chunking (which the Java Wrappers completely hide).
Deb mentions a forum post on solving some fun GTM dilemmas with GTM dependencies and GTM fallback options. She talks about her helping "beta" a new advanced F5 Architecture class that should be available to the masses in the near future. Joe compares GTM's ability to break the laws of physics with the recent announcement by some scientists that they have broken the speed of light. Deb mentions a forum post on BIG-IP persistence cookie encryption. She then gives kudos to DC user kilgore.trout for his updates to the ROUTE wiki docs and user helix90 for his additions of the SCTP docs.
Joe comments on a forum post regarding a iControl Training request. He explains why a Minimum is larger than a Mean, how we've got 64 bits stats working in VB, Management with iControl for an HA Pair, upcoming partition support in the iRule Editor, how to create a hex string from the binary value returned from the iRule md5 command, and his recent attempts at getting the team to start "twittering". Jeff highly recommends TwitterVision.
Colin is out galavanting around Europe. Look for the guy holding the "Will iRule for Food" sign on the street corners and it'll likely be him.
 

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 8 - Extensibility

Jeff talks about his trip last week to the F5 partner conference in Chicago. He gives some advice to Everclear about teasing the audience. He alludes to an upcoming "Question of the Week" forum and the eminent rising of F5 User Groups and how we are going to help facilitate those groups. Joe volunteers his house for a Sammamish, WA user group.
Don mentions his blog readership is WAY up after the release of the Java Wrappers for iControl Labs project. He'll likely move on to finalize the Blackberry Java iControl app (to manipulate your BIG-IP from your BlackBerry) in the coming weeks. He said he'd be done by next week - right Don???
Joe points to the latest WebAccelerator product release and why it's so awesome. He found a new iControl watch that everyone should buy just because Timex was smart enough to call it iControl. He mentions a fix to the Custom Reporting with iRules Tech Tip. He also talks about the increase in customer/partner interest in automating GTM with iControl. He then refers to the power outage last week in San Francisco (which he misstated as Los Angeles) and how if those companies had GTM, the crisis could have been avoided. He finishes with his iRule Editor tip of the week on how to use the Editor to profile your iRule.
Jeff gives one last update on the Partner Conference Party and how certain things that happen on the road need to stay on the road...

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).