Troy Hunt05/09/13
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Let’s check out exactly what’s going on here and you really need video to understand the fatal flaw in the logic of SSL logos coming down over HTTPS.
Dan Kuebrich05/08/13
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Let’s explore how request queueing affects applications in the non-PaaS world and what you can do about it.
Jay Fields05/08/13
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I recently typed out a long, thoughtful response in a textarea. I clicked submit, like I've done millions of times, and I got the dreaded "session expired" error message.
Eric Gregory05/08/13
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This week we're talking to Zemian Deng, a Java developer working for the Bank of New York Mellon.
Steven Lott05/08/13
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The extreme end of "paving the cowpaths" are people for whom the bug list is also the feature list. This is a very strange phenomenon, rarely seen, but still relevant to this review.
Trevor Parsons05/07/13
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Why do so many log management solutions ignore the ability to tail your logs or to get a live feed of what your most recent system events are?
Patrick Debois05/07/13
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Besides repeating the devops stories, we also need to seek diversity and make sure we keep adapting to situations.
Matt Rapczynski05/07/13
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What is a responsible way to use Grails with existing tables, and guarantee that it will not try to change those schema objects? If only Grails mapping had a simple way to turn off DDL on specific domains, but still retain the awesomeness of DRY methods like list(…), named queries, and even inserting/updating records through save(…). I present to you what I think is a reasonably elegant solution for this problem.
Trevor Parsons05/06/13
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All Logentries servers are configured for the UTC timezone. We use this as the default timezone for all internal data including customer’s logs. However, at the browser UI level we detect a user’s local timezone and present all dates in a more human friendly way, i.e. in the local time.
Nicolas Frankel05/06/13
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There’s no magic in how Deployit works, it uses existing parts of modern development environments, most notably CI servers. The only requirement is to have a dedicated Maven project that creates so-called DAR archives, which are nothing more than ZIP files wrapping all resources mandatory for a deployment.
Aaron Nichols05/06/13
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I just got back from Devops Days Austin. It was a really good conference. I think I enjoyed the speakers and Open Spaces at this event more than I did at Devops Days Mountain View last year. Huge props to the organizers and speakers for putting together such a great set of topics.
Mike Hadlow05/06/13
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A reverse proxy is server component that sits between the internet and your web servers. It accepts HTTP requests, provides various services, and forwards the requests to one or many servers.
Eric Gregory05/05/13
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Sebastien Lambla from Caffeine IT explores the basics of HTTP caching.
Kin Lane05/05/13
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I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout my life, across every region of this great country. While I agree with the intent of this statement, I have to declare that it isn't enough!
Eric Gregory05/05/13
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This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture.
Eric Gregory05/04/13
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Konstantin Haase delves into adding automatic Pull Request testing to Travis CI, exploring why pull requests are so powerful.
Lofi Dewanto05/03/13
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If you think that in year 2012 all companies which produce software and IT divisions in our world have already their optimized software development process, you are wrong. It seems that we - software architects, software developers or whatever your title is - still need to optimize the software development process in many software companies and IT divisions.
Eric Gregory05/03/13
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Today: New Java 8 features, obsolete tech skills, how open data is transforming global agriculture, Wikipedia's switch to MariaDB, and much more. Plus, our entries for the Mars haiku challenge.
Zac Gery05/03/13
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There are times when work is, well ... a lot of work! The stress of important deadlines or goals can be overwhelming at times. Sometimes the "daily grind" can also have a sapping effect on overall productivity. How can we reverse this trend? By goofing off at work, of course!
Madhuka Udantha05/02/13
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Often a pull request cannot be merged online due to conflicts. If there's no conflict, it is easy for you to do merging, even from the web client, with one click.
Keith Mayer05/02/13
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Yesterday, I had a great time with the CincyPowerShell user group discussing security and delegation in PowerShell with PKI, code-signing certificates, PowerShell Remoting and PowerShell Web Access (new with Windows Server 2012! ).
René Pickhardt05/02/13
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The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things...
Paul Reed05/02/13
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It’s that time of year again where chefs (and sous-chefs!) come together to talk all-things Chef! This year’s ChefConf took place last week in San Francisco, and the crew of the Ship Show attended to experience it all first hand.
Kin Lane05/02/13
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I was just checking the blog feed of an API that I monitor. It came up in my alert dashboard as a feed that wasn't pulling. I clicked on the link to test, and...
