October 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Ensemble - now called Juju, Ubuntu's Cloud

Ensemble: service orchestration for the cloud (my work for Ubuntu Server)  - via Jim Baker

Jim and I spent some time…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 30, 2011 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

OrlandoJUG October Open Spaces Meeting Rocked!

OrlandoJUG Oct 2011 meeting

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…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 27, 2011 at 11:11pm — No Comments

It's all about Yandda! (an Android app)

It was in February this year that i sent this mail to a friend of mine:

 

from Buls Yusuf …
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Added by Bulama Yusuf on October 26, 2011 at 11:24am — No Comments

Good times at JCertif in the Congo

JCertif ::: in Brazzaville, Republic of 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

Dennis Ritchie has died. Dennis was known as the father of the C programming language and the Unix… Continue

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.…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 9, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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