DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 63 - A Hand Or Less

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 21 - Buckling Swashes

Jeff recaps his recent trips (think Captain Ron going Swashbuckling in EMEA).
Colin gives the ins-and-outs on flooding variables or variable flooding or something like that.
Deb discusses some recent tech tips on Clone Pool Persistence as well as Named Based Virtual Hosting with LTM.
Don is finishing up wrapping up all his java code with full javadoc support and talks about his recent tech tip on controlling failover with iControl.
Joe finishes it up talking about his last two tech tips on when and switch as well as some forum posts that tie into them.

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 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).

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 3 - Don chimes in

The gang talks about the release of the Apple iPhone. Anyone got one yet?
As promised last week, Colin has published his iRules TroubleShooting Tips document to the iRules wiki. He also gives some hints on upcoming video and search enhancements.
Deb comments on per-server persistence cookie names and that just because you "can" do something with an iRule, doesn't mean you "should". She also posted some technical tips on the BIG-IP v9 SNMP MIB for LTM Navigation.
Don makes his podcast debut hinting at an upcoming DCTV clip on using iControl from within Eclipse. He hits on his work with the java wrapper classes and discusses his latest blog post on the Bounty that is the iControl API. For good measure, he throws in hints on a customer project of dynamically creating SSL protected websites and how his upcoming labs project.
To round things off, Joe takes the ritual razzing for missing the podcast (and no, he wasn't golfing).