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DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 55 - Ear Rest

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:51:53 GMT

Welcome to the fifty 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, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips, Colin is ordering classes and Joe is listing his bigpipe.
In the blogs, Lori is stretching the lead, Jeff is Load Balancing MS-Active Directory, and Joe is Eye Resting Folksonomy and Glocalisation while the team tries to fit in some Ear Rest into the podcast.
Active partitions in iControl are discussed some pyControl contributions to the CodeShare are highlighted.
The podcast ends with a discussion on Don and Joe's Acopia visit along with the fun we've been having with our Data Center migration. Oh, and the Groundswell entry has had some great feedback as well - keep the feedback coming!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Groundswell, classes, bigpipe, ABCs, pyControl, Acopia, Data Center Migration, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Jeff Browning

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 53 - No Mercy

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:05:34 GMT

Welcome to the fifty 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, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Colin fixes cert mismatch errors with iRules, Joe is digging into TMM Statistics, and Don is gracefully downing pool members.
In the blogs, Google Chrome is reviewed, with a security flaw pointed out by Colin. Joe finished up the Networking ABCs, and Don is powering down his PCs.
In the forums, we discuss profile change lag time, modifying GET strings, 64bit versions of the iRule Editor, and adding strings to data groups with pyControl.
In the wikis, the iRule return statement is updated.
Colin has promised a Post of the Week and Don talks about our upcoming Forrester Groundswell submission.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, SSL VPN, iRules 101, TMM, Google Chrome, Networking ABCs, 64bit, iRule Editor, pyControl, Forrester Groundswell, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Jeff Browning, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 52 - The Road to 100

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:29:21 GMT

Welcome to the fifty 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: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Don is having butterflies over dumping his BIG-IP and Joe is helping with IP based stats.
Don is having fun until the makeup comes off, Joe declares war, and gives a shout out for iRules training.
Don has helped out troubleshooting assembly initialize errors and Joe answers why nobody responds to posts as well as graceful server shutdowns and pyControl on Linux.
POTW is coming, we promise...
And Don discusses his poll on "stuff you would like to see more of" while Joe brings up some upcoming fun and games with Twitter.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Podcast, BIG-IP, Statistics, iRules, Training, pyControl, iControl, Post of the Week, Polls, Twitter, Joe Pruitt, Don Mac Vittie, Colin Walker

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 51 - Social Media Flotsam and Jetsam

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:08:16 GMT

Welcome to the fifty 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: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, and Jeff Browning.

In this weeks podcast:

Jeff talks about vacations and gives a shout-out to Deb for her great contributions to DevCentral.
The team talks about time-off and the subsequent E-Overload that is taking over our lives.
Colin is back in the saddle with his 20LoL.
Don talks about Parallel Processing and the future of ic2I - that includes wrapping and dumping. He also throws a request for votes on his recent poll.
Don talks about our attempts to be a groundswell.
Jeff highlights some upcoming DevCentral infrastructure updates and how we are "Living the Dream".
Oh, and don't forget the 38 percent!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, 20LoL, E-Overload, Flotsam and Jetsam, Parallel Computing, groundswell, Jeff Browning, Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 50 - Dump my BIG-IP

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:18:02 GMT

Welcome to the FIFTIETH (WooHoo) 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:

In the tech tips this week, Deb is Persisting SSL, Joe and Don are dumping Http Statistics and iRules respectively.
Deb's blogging about Monitoring WebSphere, Joe highlights Symphoniq TrueView ADC Edition, and Don is comparing Hits to Hits.
In the wikis, check out LB::reselect, iRules 101, MSM Bypass, PsGlobalHttpStats, and ClientAuthUsingHTMLForms.
In the forums, we have requests for an iControl demo site, more "b conn delete" requests, and MSM customization.
We had an interview with Joe Hsy from Symphoniq on the interview channel and the post of the week was on Graceful Server Connection Draining - watch this to see Joe's cube.
And the team gives a fond farewell to our own Deb who is moving on and taking on the task of helping out our solutions team on our AskF5 project. We'll miss you Deb - Don't be a stranger!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, SSL VPN, Http, iRules 101, WebSphere, Symphoniq, TrueView, MSM, iControl 101, Farewell, Joe Pruitt, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 48 - Un-Nested Conditionals

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:59:56 GMT

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

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 47 - Justifying Our Existence

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:22:51 GMT

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

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 45 - Loran and Ali

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:16:01 GMT

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

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 44 - Retake!

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:39 GMT

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

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 43 - Plus One

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:28:52 GMT

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.