In this second part of a conversation with Puppet creator and Reductive Labs founder Luke Kanies, we talk about bootstrapping an open source company. More so than just finding a need and the code to fill it, Luke walks us through the personal risk management thinking he went through before deciding to start his own company. Being in America, he has to content with the American health care system which is no fun for start-ups like him and I. He [...]
Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4453/eclipse-custom-interfaces-and-it-management While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about customizing interfaces for IT management software. We start by hearing John’s take on using Eclipse as a front-end, and then hear some more general commentary from both John and Mark about how interfaces are used and customized – and by who – in the IT department. Disclaimer: Zenoss is a client, as [...]
While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with Luke Kanies about Puppet, the open source server configuration automation (or “provisioning” in my personal lexicon) project. Luke first gives us a detailed overview of Puppet: what it does, how it works, and the puppet DSL. We then discuss the benefits and draw-backs of running the product as an open source project and discuss how Luke is seeking to balance commercializing the project with maintaining the good will of the Puppet [...]
While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about CMDBs and federated CMDBs. Mark starts out with a general update on Zenoss, and then after briefly talking about model-driven IT management, all three of us talk about CMDBs in general and how federation is doing in that area. Disclaimer: Zenoss is a client, as are Eclipse and IBM.
Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4420/web-20-design-patterns-the-book While in Barcelona at Adobe MAX ’07, James talks with Duane Nickull about their upcoming book Web 2.0 Design Patterns.
In this episode, I talk with the DMTF‘s Winston Bumpus on a wide variety of topics and standards that the DMTF is involved in. We start out explaining the basic systems management model, CIM, that provides much of the foundation for other standards. Then, we get into discussion of other DMTF standards like WS-Management, DASH, SMASH, and OVF.
In the continuing series of geek bag profiles, while at SAP Tech ’07 in Las Vegas, I talked with Dan McWeeney about his Crumpler Part and Parcel bag. Dan shows us all the nooks and crannies of his bag, explaining that it fits all his computer junk well. The bag just works for said junk well, with no room, really for clothes.
Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4368/bags-matthias-zellers-waterfield-cargo While at SAP TechEd ’07, I talked with Matthias Zeller about his Waterfield Cargo bag. I have an over-active interest in laptop bags, so I’m always on the look-out for The Perfect Bag. Matthias’ seemed nice and he details the different compartments, pockets, and little things like if it fits under an airplane seat well. In a pinch, Mattias says, he can fit a t-shirt and socks [...]
While at SAP TechEd ’07 Community Day, James Governor talks with Dan McWeeney about the new type of designer/developer role and methodology Dan has seen emerge recently. Rather than build on an open source or closed source only stack, Dan says, these developers pull in whatever code, projects, tools, and data they need to make a sort of development tool-chain mashup. Many of these coders, Dan notes, aren’t traditional types of developers and are, instead, good at mixing together and [...]
While at SAP TechEd ’07 in Las Vegas, James and I had the chance to get an exciting demo from Dan McWeeney and Eddie Herrmann. Having won the SAP TechEd ’06 DemoJam, Dan and Eddie couldn’t compete this year, so they cooked up the Wiimote driven 3D desktop we see in the demo. It’s sort of like Minority Report with two Wiimotes. Built on a collection of open source project and Flex, Dan and Eddie’s Majority Desktop is quite the [...]
While in Ottawa this week, I had the chance to chat with Teknision‘s Gabor Vida and Tony MacDonell in an empty conference room at the Ottawa Sheraton. Teknision works primarily in Flash-based technologies — Flash, Flex, and AIR — and serves as a good example of the “designer/developer” role that I’ve seen emerge over the past year as Ajax and RIA have gone mainstream. Gabor and Tony explain what it means when they say they created “branded applications,” a concept [...]
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