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Getting Started With The Opscode Chef Platform – Configuration Management In The Cloud

In “The Moving Parts of Opscode Chef” there was an interesting discussion about the need of a highly available chef server if you want to use opscode...

0 replies - 4011 views - 06/23/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Devops - More Than Marketing - Talk By James Turnbull

I’ve just found my notes from James Turnbull’s talk at FOSDEM. I found the talk excellent, and I’m already part of the choir. But much of the...

0 replies - 4032 views - 06/22/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Coding: Tools/Techniques influence the way we work

Dave Astels mentions in his BDD paper that the way we use language influences the way that we write code, quoting the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis “there is a...

0 replies - 7111 views - 06/19/11 by Mark Needham in News

Deployment is the new build (part 3)

Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will...

2 replies - 4858 views - 06/17/11 by Andrew Phillips in Articles

ALM Practices Part 6: Code Analysis & Guidelines

What is it? Coding guidelines, or coding standards if you will, are documents consisting of rules and recommendations on the use of C# in enterprise...

0 replies - 8031 views - 06/16/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

Ops Driven Dev

In The Agile Flywheel, colleague Ray Riescher describes how velocity in dev drove corresponding velocity in ops: Scrum set the flywheel in motion and...

0 replies - 1953 views - 06/09/11 by Israel Gat in News

Puppet Homebrew Package Provider

I've become a big fan of homebrew package system on Macosx. I moved away from macports because it allows me to easily change the way packages are compiled:...

1 replies - 7436 views - 06/07/11 by Patrick Debois in News

How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 1

So, I had this crazy idea that I would try to do this blog in some chronological order, since a lot of the early posts will be historical lessons.I know...

0 replies - 9045 views - 06/06/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

ALM Practices Every Developer Should Know About

So now that I’ve finished my multi-part post on getting the most out of user stories, it is time to provide a nice convenient overview of some essential...

1 replies - 8117 views - 06/01/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

Three Proven Ways To Enable a DevOps Culture

To deliver customer value rapidly, it’s important that developers and operations work together closely. There are certain traits of organizations which...

1 replies - 5118 views - 05/27/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Videos: State vs. Interaction Testing & Learning to Love Your Manual Testers

At the 2010 Norwegian Developer's Conference, Hadi Hariri explained state and interaction testing so that developers could use both to their full advantage...

0 replies - 8445 views - 05/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Bridging The Technology Communication Gap

Throughout my career, I have been blessed with the ability to effectively translate technology issues to business users. At one point I was even told that...

0 replies - 3309 views - 05/25/11 by Robert Diana in Articles

Save the baby code

Code reviews are both a standard part of the development process and the biggest wasted resource in software engineering. Approaches vary from face-to-face...

2 replies - 2984 views - 05/24/11 by Larry White in News

Daily Dose: LinkedIn Goes Public!

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8...

0 replies - 24308 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Scripps Networks finds a fit Case Study

HP storage solution meets growing need for media asset management Scripps Networks needed to store, manage, and process graphics, video, and still imagery in...

0 replies - 4862 views - 05/18/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers