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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 31 - This One's For You JC

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:19:13 GMT

Joe talks about our new feedback mechanism. Skype "f5recorder" or call 206-201-2258
Colin covers a question from user JC about iControl and iRules basics. Joe throws in an example on April fooling your boss with iRules.
Jeff "injects" about the new VMWare forum supporting a F5/VMWare partnership.
Joe goes over his tech tip on Partitions, a forum post on File Transfer APIs, new wiki documentation, and Jeff's new Seth Godin Action Figure.
Colin finishes things up with an update on pyControl.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 19 - Oracle and Performance Calculations

DevCentral Team — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:48:57 GMT

Jeff is out "Not buying us iPhones" on the high seas and Colin is getting some rest.
Don published the Application Ready Network for Oracle Applications site on DevCentral - feature packed with deployment guides, forums, and content - if you can get to it B-). He's wrapping up his blackberry app, writing this weeks tech tip, and getting ready for Oracle OpenWorld next week.
F5 was voted top of 4 categories for Northwest Jobs - Go F5!
The team welcomes Pete Silva to the DevCentral bloggers.
Deb's tech tip this week was on "Evaluating iRule Performance" with a spreadsheet for helping with performance calculations. Joe hints at this being included in the iRule Editor.
Joe says to make sure to listen to the audio version of the "If and Expressions" tech tip. Deb says "Bookmark it, don't memorize it".
Hat tip to DC User hoolio for his massive contributions this week. Be on the lookout for mention of him in an upcoming "F5 World" magazine.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 12 - Travel

DevCentral Team — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:17:05 GMT

Due to popular demand, this week will not be just the "Joe and Colin Show".
Colin discusses the horrors with coming back to work after time off and dealing with a large inbox. Joe gives a solution by setting up a rule to send all messages to the "Deleted Items" folder when your out of office is turned on. Don just forwards all his to Jeff... Colin talks about jet-lag from travel and Don explains why he's backwards with traveling sleep issues.
Don talks about stuff that he doing that he can't talk about. He got into a blog screaming match with Lori about tagging. He's also working on kSOAP trying to build in multi-dimensional array support.
Joe talks about DevCentral registration and display names, new features in the latest iRule Editor release, Tech tip activity on "Application Request Parsing" and "HTML Comment Scrubbing", a possible but with address data group access from within iRules, and a report on iControl issues when accessing HA Pairs.
The team rounds up talking about the recent new Apple iPod, iPhone, and iPodTouch releases. Despite the cool stuff, but Don's daughter is ready to give up her iPod.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 5 - The Gangs All Here

DevCentral Team — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:53:25 GMT

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.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 3 - Don chimes in

DevCentral Team — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:30:55 GMT

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).