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The Right Tools for the Job: What I Used to Write My Dissertation 2 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
ScrivenerWith several books under my belt, I didn't think writing a dissertation would require different writing tools. I fully expected to be able to make do with the word processor-centered workflow...
Object Storage: A love story 28 Jun 2013 | 11:26 pm
The HP Cloud blog is running what is likely to be my last HP Cloud video. This one focuses on HP Cloud Object Storage. Working with object storage has been one of my favorite projects while at HP Clo...
How the Cloud Powers Agile (video on the HP Cloud blog) 26 Jun 2013 | 11:43 pm
The HP Cloud blog is running the second in my series of videos about dev/test. The focus this time is on how we accelerated our agile development using the cloud. In case you missed it, the first ins...
Creating a Personal PaaS with Dokku on HPCloud 22 Jun 2013 | 03:56 am
Would you like to build your own PaaS-like playground? It works like Heroku, runs on Ubuntu, and is entirely Open Source. What's it called? Dokku. In this article, I explain how to install Dokku on a...
Why Containers Won't Beat VMs 21 Jun 2013 | 08:58 pm
Are LXC-style containers the alternative to using cloud-based virtual machines? There's been some hype suggesting that "the cloud" is moving away from virtual machines and toward containers. In a way,...
Go: Calling pointer functions in C with CGO 20 Jun 2013 | 09:13 pm
The Go programming language provides the cgo tool for calling C code inside of a Go program. At compile time, Go can even compile C code into the Go executable. One of the gotchas for using this func...
Video: Accelerating Dev/Test Using HP Cloud Snapshots 7 Jun 2013 | 03:30 am
HP Cloud asked me to do a quick 2-minute video on how we use phoenix images to manage dev/test/production platform stability. There's a short [blog post](https://blog.hpcloud.com/image-snapshots-devte...
Using Fabric to Create a LAMP server on HP Cloud 29 May 2013 | 07:27 pm
Fabric Fabric is a network-aware build tool. Think of it like make (or rake, or pake, etc.) for remote servers. With Fabric, it is just as easy to script a remote environment as it is to script a loca...
The Holy Grail of Dev/Test 17 May 2013 | 02:54 am
Yesterday the Cloud Matters blog posted an article of mine about using a PaaS tier to simplify the process of developing-testing-deploying web applications. The backstory behind this article is inter...
Three Developer-Friendly Orchestration Tools 17 May 2013 | 02:43 am
Recently I have been doing all kinds of DevOps/Orchestration work setting up in-cloud servers and services. Most of the time, what I want to be able to do is quickly and repeatably create several serv...
