JBoss World 2012 Abstract Submitted

I just sub­mit­ted an abstract for a talk at JBoss World 2012, hope it gets accepted!

Real World Soft­ware Devel­op­ment with Openshift

Open­Shift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling platform-as-a-service for Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python applications.

In this prac­ti­cal talk, Jeremy Brown will demon­strate how to use Red Hat’s Open­Shift PaaS within a team of devel­op­ers to rapidly develop software.

The talk will describe how a team of devel­op­ers can develop, test and release code in par­al­lel with­out los­ing devel­op­ment veloc­ity and will draw on real world exam­ples and insights.

Jeremy will demon­strate how to use and con­fig­ure a Jenk­ins Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion server with a Java project hosted on github.com, while mul­ti­ple devel­op­ers com­mit code and fea­tures in par­al­lel, with real time sele­nium test­ing as code is released. This talk will include code and con­fig­u­ra­tion sam­ples as well as a hands on demon­stra­tion of the end-to-end project workflow.

You will come away with a greater under­stand­ing of how you can use Open­Shift to cre­ate a highly effec­tive cloud devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment with zero server configuration.

December 10, 2011 – 1:58 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Emergency Conference Speaker Required!

I had the slightly dubi­ous priv­i­lege this week of stand­ing in at the last-minute as a speaker at a Mil­i­tary con­fer­ence on secu­rity in Prague. On Tues­day at 4:30pm I found out that we needed some­one to speak at a con­fer­ence in Prague the next day… slightly fool­ishly I vol­un­teered and 24 hours later I found myself …

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December 9, 2011 – 5:56 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Comments (2)

Open Sourcing my Linode StackScripts

I use Lin­ode to host a VPS and they have a great fea­ture called StackScripts which allows you to: StackScripts™ pro­vide a flex­i­ble way to cus­tomize our dis­tri­b­u­tion tem­plates. They’re very easy to use — find a StackScript, answer its ques­tions, and click deploy. When the deploy­ment is first booted, the script is exe­cuted and does its …

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November 30, 2011 – 1:24 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

How-to Switch from CentOS 5.6 to Scientific Linux 5.6

I have recently switched my Lin­ode VPS from Cen­tOS 5.6 to Sci­en­tific Linux 5.6 because I got a bit sick of all of the delays that the Cen­tOS team have been expe­ri­enc­ing, to be hon­est I don’t care what their rea­sons are, I just want a dis­tro that fol­lows RHEL a bit faster! I think I …

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July 9, 2011 – 1:39 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

How to load balance TCP connections with HAProxy

This week I was at a client where we were doing some per­for­mance test­ing of the JBoss Enter­prise Data Ser­vices prod­uct (EDS for short). EDS is based on the JBoss.org com­mu­nity project Teiid which is a data vir­tu­al­iza­tion sys­tem that allows appli­ca­tions to use data from mul­ti­ple, het­eroge­nous data stores. It’s a really cool prod­uct …

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April 9, 2011 – 9:15 am | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)