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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 36 - Colin gets a new project

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:27:50 GMT

In the tech tips this week, Joe goes over Data Groups with iControl, Deb is Validating Your Logic, and Don is Creating Virtuals, the easy way.
Joe continued his Networking ABC's with O, P, Q, and R. Jeff talks about Virtualization, advice you can use, as well as CLI's vs. API's. And Don finishes off the blog coverage with SpamBOTs and DNS lookups with a bit of 90's flashback thrown in for good measure.
Several DNS focused Samples were added to the CodeShare this week along with updates to the iControl DBVariable interface and a sample syslog-ng configuration for setting up email.
In the forums, Joe talks about Pool Member State and the infamous 3-way-GUI-toggle, as well as issuing syslog commands from iControl. Deb rounds it off with a little DNS on GTM.
The DCTVPOTW continues this week with a whiteboard session on VIP Bounceback and server callbacks.
Jeff and Joe finish things off with a little talk about Interop and site upgrades respectively.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 35 - Identity Crisis

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:31:03 GMT

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 18 - ISC

DevCentral Team — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:58:16 GMT

Jeff is "Double Berried" this week (with Chocolaty Goodness).
If you've been wondering where we've been, The DevCentral Team is back from the F5 International Sales Conference held last week in sunny Palm Springs, CA. All of the team members had a full speaking gig during the show.
Deb and Jeff, after working their way through equipment "malfunctions", talked about Applications De-Mystified.
Don felt like a "boy toy" during his and Lori's talk on SOA and Web 2.0.
Colin and Joe discussed iRules, iControl, and Community.
Don and Deb said that Lori and Jeff were good at "borrowing content" from their co-presenters.
The team then talks about some games played during the sessions including a "Virtual Human Network" and "Fill in the blanks with DevCentral".
The podcast ended up with an overview of a day in the life of a conference attendee including moshing to Cheap Trick.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 8 - Extensibility

DevCentral Team — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:27:09 GMT

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

DevCentral Team — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:04:24 GMT

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 1 - The start of something fun.

DevCentral Team — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:17:57 GMT

Introductions by Jeff Joe talks about TechEd, his presentation at the VSIP vendor lunch, and gaming systems. Colin goes over and iRule he's been working on with a customer implementing syslog inspection. Deb gives the dirt on the Profile::exists iRule command.