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Baruch Sadogursky02/06/13
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Jenkins Artifactory Plugin Version 2.1.4 is Released

The Jenkins Artifactory plugin includes now environment variables interpolation during generic resolution (in addition to generic deployment interpolation), and some minor bug fixes.

Martin Hinshelwood02/06/13
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The TFS Automation Platform is Dead, Long Live the TfPlugable

The TFS Automation Platform is dead, long live the TfPlugable! It has been a long time since I have talked about the TFS Automation Platform that I had almost forgotten about it myself.

Eric Minick02/05/13
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In Search of Organizational Consciousness

While general anesthesia is designed to make a surgery patient unconscious, we actually know very little about what consciousness actually is. One of the models of consciousness put forward by Giulio Tononi is that a conscious mind is an integrated mind.

Luis Atencio02/05/13
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Notes on Continuous Delivery

In the rapid changing software world of today, companies and individuals have come up with many methods in order to minimize the time to market gap, i.e the time it takes for your idea to materialize in production.

Ralf Quebbemann02/05/13
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Multiple Virtual Desktops in Windows 7

Most Linux desktops / window managers support it out of the box: Multiple virtual desktops. I really miss the feature on Windows 7.

Shelan Perera02/05/13
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Application Governance with WSO2 GReg and Jenkins

This tutorial will show how you can automate the application Governance using WSO2 Governance Registry and Jenkins (for Build Automation).

Johannes Brodwall02/04/13
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Let's Reinvent More Wheels

When I learned math in elementary school, I would reach for my calculator. But my father stopped me: “You only get to use the calculator when you can do math without it.”

Mark Needham02/04/13
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On Levels of Automation

Over the last 18 months or so I’ve worked on a variety of different projects in different organisations and seen some patterns around the way that automation was done which I thought would be interesting to document.

Brian Gracely02/04/13
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The Cloudcast, Ep. 73: DevOps - Managing Hardware as Code

Brian talks with Doug Hairfield (@knucklesandwich, Manager of Systems Engineering and Continuous Integration @Bronto) about how he’s transformed the way they do continuous deployment and “manage hardware as code.”

Build A Cloud02/04/13
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Why I Love DevCloud

Apache CloudStack 4.0 incubating was released a while ago now. The testing procedure used by the community to vote on the release candidate included using the new CloudStack sandbox DevCloud.

John Cook02/03/13
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Increasing Your Chances of Entering Flow

I recently ran across a tip from Mark Hepburn that caught my eye. The content of the tip isn’t important here but rather his justification: "It sounds trivial, but it can really help keep you in the flow."

Eric Gregory02/03/13
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How Facebook Moves Fast and Breaks Things

From Airbnb Tech Talks 2012, a guide to big mistakes and how to make them from former Facebook infrastructure engineer Aaron Priestley.

Matthias Marschall02/02/13
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DevOps Dudes Comics: Meerkat

Here's a new DevOps Dudes comic from Matthias Marschall!

Eric Gregory02/02/13
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How Square Stays Stable and Available

Confreaks has an excellent collection of 2012 Airbnb Tech Talks, including this great presentation from Erica Kwan on how mobile payment platform Square stays up and stable.

Vladimir Carrer02/01/13
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Writability: Write in Your Browser

Yesterday I found an incredible post on creating a one line browser notepad by Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga. The idea is using your browser as a minimal, distractions-free text editor.

Douglas Rathbone02/01/13
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Why Nuget Package Restore's Not for Me

Many development teams turn on Nuget Package Restore to save from having to check packages into Source Control. It’s also quite popular with project teams with a Continuous Integration setup. I recommend against it.

Ben Kepes02/01/13
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More Proof that Shadow IT is a Growing Issue

for a start, it’s truly bizarre that such a high proportion of organizations admit the existence of rogue IT – clearly the barriers to sanctioned adoption are simply too high and that’s what is forcing people to access via workarounds.

Eugene Ivantsov02/01/13
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Creating a Python App in Codenvy and Deploying It to Openshift

Here's a short video demonstrating how you can create a simple Python app, deploy it to Openshift and update the application directly from Codenvy.

Jim Bird01/31/13
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Appsec and Technical Debt

Technical debt is a fact of life for anyone working in software development: work that needs to be done to make the system cleaner and simpler and cheaper to run over the long term, but that the business doesn't know about or doesn't see as a priority.

Luigi Viggiano01/31/13
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Ssh "Write failed: Broken pipe"

I started to get this error “Write failed: Broken pipe” when I was leaving the terminal alone. Since plumbers are still expensive, despite the crisis, I decided to fix the pipe by myself.

Martin Fowler01/31/13
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Priming Prime Directive

The Retrospective Prime Directive is an important part of retrospective practice, and has been in integral part of retrospective thinking since Norm Kerth first launched the practice.

Gunnar Peipman01/31/13
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How to Make NLog Create Separate Log per Service Thread

NLog on is popular logging component for .NET applications. I am using it in one project where I built multi-threaded server that is running similar threads with different configuration.

Eric Gregory01/30/13
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Dev of the Week: Willie Wheeler

This week we're talking to Willie Wheeler, Principal Applications Engineer with Expedia and author of Spring in Practice. Willie touches on the future of DevOps -- and using Minecraft for education.

Carlos Sanchez01/30/13
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Testing Puppet Modules

There are several steps depending on how much involved the tests are, what parts are tested and, of course, how long it takes to run the tests.

Kasia Gogolek01/30/13
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Set Aside One Hour for Personal Development

A while ago I decided to dedicate an hour a day to my personal development time. There’s always been projects I had “in a pipeline” but they never finished, and work was always conveniently “getting in the way.”