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DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 63 - A Hand Or Less

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:15:36 GMT

Welcome to the sixty 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, Jason Rahm, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Tech Tipping this week, Jason digs into Windows and Buffers and Joe explains iControl Concurrent Programming.
In the blogs, Colin's has 3 more 20 lines or less, Don talks about Ruby's scalability, and Joe discusses the race between the Jaguar and the Roadrunner.
The Java API for Partitions, API's for Node Connections, Monitoring iControl Apps, and the Timeliness of Persistence is in the forums.
In the wikis, we have LogEveryXSeconds, Disable Partial GETs, LTM Maintenance Page, and iControlConcurrency.
Colin kicked back into the Post of the Week, this week with SSL Info in your HTTP Headers.
And in some random topics, we have DevCentral's updated search, Colin's upcoming trip to Japan, Dev Tech Briefings, and PowerShell from Visio.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iControl, Ruby, Java, Monitoring, Persistence, HTTP, PowerShell, Visio, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, Jason Rahm

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 62 - Retransmitting Your Syns

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:51:50 GMT

Welcome to the sixty 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: Don Mac Vittie, Jason Rahm, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips this week, Jason has advice on retransmitting your syns and Colin is Exchanging Persistence Duality.
Jason is blogging about Stagnation and Mediocracy, while Don chimes in on why your shouldn't use clustering, and Jeff watches Joe watching a command prompt at LAS.
In the forums, we have Cacti Graph Templates, how class modifications work, and iControl v4.x oddities.
In the wikis, we have updates with ONECONNECT::reuse, as well as UDP::client_port, local_port, mss, payload, remote_port, respond, server_port, and unused_port.
And, Joe and Jeff recap their trip to DevConnections/OpenForce 08 this week in Las Vegas.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Exchange, Clustering, Cacti, iControl, iRules, DevConnections, OpenForce, OpenForce08, DotNetNuke, Las Vegas, Joe Pruitt, Jeff Browning, Don Mac Vittie, Jason Rahm

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 61 - Taconoisseur

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:39:07 GMT

Welcome to the sixty 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, Jason Rahm, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips, Joe created a PowerShell Dashboard, Colin is Caching with iRules, and Jason investigates Nagle's Algorithm.
Jason has been blogging about Presentation gimmicks, Colin discusses SDBP, and Don is doing more Multi-coring, this time with RogueWave.
In the forums, we cover renaming http path aspx, TCP::collect, Web Analytics iRule Style, and a TCP stream inspection problem.
hoolio has been active in the wikis with CACHE::disabled/fresh/header/statskey along with PROFILE::http. Joe also posted his iControlDashboard to the iControl CodeShare.
Joe posted a few videos in his blog of PUSA.
The finishes things up with a discussion of this post on TechCunch about bloated blogs and Joe and Jeff's trip to DevConnections in Vegas next week.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, PowerShell, TCP, iRules, Caching, Rogue Wave, Cache, iControl, Google Chart, PUSA, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Jeff Browning, Jason Rahm, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 59 - iRuleing The Ocean

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:24:25 GMT

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

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips we've got the insightful Global Statistics.
In the blogs, Don is digging Cilk++, Google is Gaming, and Lori is Multiplexing and Automating Scalability.
In the forums we discuss the License for the iRule Editor, a Perl version of the Network Map, and Connection timeout errors with iControl.
In the wikis, we have RewriteRedirectHostName, HTTPRetryOn404_Pre_9_2_0, and DNSMonitoringUsingDig.
And be on the lookout for us at the Bingo halls in Palm Springs next week hollering when "F-5" is called out!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Cilk++, iRule Editor, Multiplexing, Automation, DNS, Bingo, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Jeff Browning, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 58 - ClickJacking for SETI

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:16:57 GMT

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

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips, Colin is Unbinding LDAP Servers and Joe is digging into PVA statistics.
In the blogs, Joe talks about ClickJacking, Drunk Emailing, Ads in Games, and Mono. Don talks about the WebAccelerator Beta, Colin is on #15 with 20LoL and how Google+Twitter = Great Debates.
In the forums, we discuss Admin Partitions, 3-way state toggle, and iControl Java dependencies.
And in the wikis, hoolio is on a rampage with caching in Using iRules to Manipulate Cache, and aggregating name based topics.
And make sure you register for the upcoming F5/Symphoniq Webinar on the October 16th at 9AM PST.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Symphoniq, Google, LDAP, PVA, Java, Cache, Joe Pruitt, Jeff Browning, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 57 - Robot Developers

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:17:03 GMT

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

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips, Lori is automagically adding Java apps and Joe is digging into global SSL statistics.
In the blogs, Don explains what's in a cloud, Joe is worth more than 25 cents, Colin reports on armies of android developers, Dawn has started the Acceleration ABC's, and Kris is kicking off his Protocol of the Week.
For the forums, we cover viewing config archives and Referer headers.
The CodeShare upload form is working again!
Symphonic and F5 are hosting an upcoming Webinar that you should check out and F5 will be at Microsoft Tech Ed Nov 3rd-7th.
Oh, and happy anniversary Jeff!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Java, Cloud Computing, Android, Acceleration, Symphoniq, Microsoft, TechEd, Joe Pruitt, Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 56 - Crocodile DonDee

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:29:55 GMT

Welcome to the fifty 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, Dawn Parzych, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Joe is tech tipping GTM Global Statistics.
In the blogs, Colin loves the GPhone, but hates Jack Thompson. Joe continues the ABCs with Instalanche, Jargon, Klog, Linkbait, and Meme. Don having a panacea of Multi-Cores. And Lori highlights Load Balancing misuse as well as why non-twitter apps should care about HA. Dawn finishes things up on how Web Accelerator can help with HA via a relatively unknown feature and why twitter should use WebAccelerator.
In the forums, Joe posts an iRule Editor Feature Poll, reloading external classes is explained, and a hint at a .Net RSS Feed generator.
In the wikis, STREAM::expression, findclass, and WebLogic JSESSIONID Persistence have been updated.
Don gives an update on our Groundswell application and the team drills Dawn on WebAccelerator.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, GTM, GPhone, ABCs, WebAccelerator, iRule Editor, Groundswell, Joe Pruitt, Dawn Parzych, Don Mac Vittie, Colin Walker

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