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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
