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October 2011 Blog Posts (6)
Ensemble - now called Juju, Ubuntu's Cloud
Ensemble: service orchestration for the cloud (my work for Ubuntu Server) http://fewbar.com/2011/06/so-what-is-ensemble-anyway - via Jim Baker
Jim and I spent some time…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on October 30, 2011 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments
OrlandoJUG October Open Spaces Meeting Rocked!
We had a great time at the OrlandoJUG meeting tonight. It was an Open Spaces style meeting and a potluck dinner. We had some new faces and certainly covered interesting topics. Here are a few:
1. Cloud Computing
2. JavaOne 2011
3. Managing dev, test and production environments
4. OSGi - what it is and how…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on October 27, 2011 at 11:11pm — No Comments
It's all about Yandda! (an Android app)
Added by Bulama Yusuf on October 26, 2011 at 11:24am — No Comments
Good times at JCertif in the Congo
Let me indulge with this photo...it was such a great time at the first JCertif and you know, you have a chance coming up in just 11 months to be a part of it again! www.jcertif.com has all the details. Check out some of the African JUGs on Codetown while you're at it.… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on October 25, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments
Dennis Ritchie has Died
Added by Michael Levin on October 25, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments
Take a peek under the covers of a website
Here's a website with open source code:
A cheap replacement for ching(6)
ching(6), the old amusement found in BSD 4.[234], has disappeared from the face of the net. I wanted it back. Fortunately finding the full text of the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching was easy. So was writing a program to read it.…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on October 9, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments
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