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Talking pyControl with Matt Cauthorn

DevCentral TV — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:52:46 GMT

The DevCentral Labs pyControl project has received overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from the DevCentral community. DevCentral's Deb Allen and Colin Walker get together with FSE and pyControl co-developer Matt Cauthorn to talk about what it is and why you need it.

And if you haven't already seen them, make sure to check out the following pyControl video tutorials by Matt:

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TechDump: Login to your FirePass using simple UNIX tools, complete with script

DevCentral TV — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:09:00 GMT

FirePass does not use any proprietary "voodoo" to generate SSL VPN tunnels. The underlying technology is nothing more complex than PPP over SSL. Internally, F5 has used this to our advantage for testing purposes and employee remote access from Unsecured locations.

Features: New iRule Editor makes it faster and easier to edit, backup even deploy iRules

DevCentral TV — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:26:00 GMT

Joe Pruitt takes us on a deep dive through the brand new iRules Editor, just released on DevCentral. On this detailed walthrough we cover everything from the history of the Editor to the process of building it, all the way through each of the numerous cool features that are packed into this lightweight, easy to use package.

TechDump: Pete Silva talks about FirePass Ep. 2 - Endpoint Security

DevCentral TV — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:16:00 GMT

Pete Silva's back in the second of four extremely interesting, not to mention educational, talks we had about FirePass. In this new installment, Pete talks about Endpoint Security, how it ties in with Pre-Logon inspections (which he talked about in Episode 1), and what it can do for you. Learn how to protect individual Resources and enable the Virtual Keyboard on a per-client basis

TechDump: Pete Silva talks about FirePass Ep. 1 - PreLogon Inspections

DevCentral TV — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:07:00 GMT

Pete Silva who's one of our more knowledgable, not to mention gregarious, FirePass guys caught wind of FirePass making its way onto DevCentral and stopped by to chat about some of the things that FirePass can do. He was kind enough to stick around for four different segments. In this, the first of those four, Pete chats about Pre-Logon inspections, FirePass' ability to inspections, FirePass' ability to inspect and work with a client's PC as the'yre logging in, and why that's so important.

Announcing the iRules Wiki, new from DevCentral!

DevCentral TV — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:10:00 GMT

The DevCentral team has been working hard to answer the call from our customers and partners for expanded iRule technical information and documentation. In response, we are proud to announce the DevCentral iRules Wiki – a new section of DevCentral designed to help answer this call. Jeff Browning interviews Colin Walker to get a brief rundown on what the Wiki is, what it includes, and how you can contribute your examples!

TechDump: Delivering Network Events as RSS Feeds via iControl

DevCentral TV — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:21:00 GMT

With another cool example of how iControl can help streamline the way you monitor the BIG-IP, F5 Senior Architect Joe Pruitt shows how you can turn live network events and status into standard RSS feeds that can be consumed and viewed via an RSS reader or Web portal. (Special “inspiration credit” goes to Robert Scoble)

TechDump: Rewriting URIs with an iRule

DevCentral TV — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:29:00 GMT

We sit down with F5’s Colin Walker to learn how an iRule can make it easy and elegant to rewrite URIs to support application requests to internal app servers.
	00:00 : Intro 00:13 : You've been working on an iRule for a customer. Do you want to tell us about it? 00:50 : Let's take a look at