…morning, we added a new team member to the Opscode family , Barry Crist, our new Vice President, Enterprise. Barry was previously CEO of Likewise, a company with a strong open source to enterprise go-to-market model that had wide industry reach including OEM agreements with VMware, Dell, HP, Riverbed, and EMC. Likewise was acquired by EMC Isilon in September 2012.
At Opscode, Barry will be focused on guiding our enterprise strategy and execution as we …
- till's blog: Automating with Chef(-Solo)
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: What happened to Rails Summit Latin America?
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1073
- Railsmine: RedDotRubyConf 2011 links & resources
- Global Nerdy: Scenes from Toronto Code Camp 2010
Some history...
In June of 2008, Adam Jacob, Barry Steinglass, Nathan Haneysmith, and I set out to (as Nathan put it) " Bring Infrastructure Automation to the Masses". We were building what we believed could become the central configuration utility for the world's infrastructure. Adam created Chef while we were still a consultancy called HJK Solutions, a time when Barry wrote frequent checks to cover payroll, Nathan worked constantly to cover clients, and I wasn't getting paid at all.
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Chatting with Adam Jacob
Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Jim Benson ( @ ourfounder ) and Tonianne DeMaria Barry ( @ sprezzatura ) # pkflow
What a lovely little book, a book for anyone that wants to organise their work more effectively, making no assumption that the reader is the slightest bit interested in software development, product development, manufacturing or Lean anything. It's a book our mums might read and enjoy, and I say that with absolutely no disrespect.
- Giles Bowkett: KanbanPad
- On the Path: The Path to an Agile Maturity Assessment
- Softies on Rails - Home: Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban, Oh My
- Comments on: blog: Daily Review #37
- » Product Launch Blog: Agile In Regulated Software - Methodology
- paperplanes: Be Humble, and Get Shit Done!
Barry
I didn't anonymize this one because Barry and Airbnb deserve massive kudos-this is the best damn recruitment email I've ever received.
Barry has read my comments on Hacker News, found my profile on workingwithrails.com, read my blog, and knows where I live. I am physically incapable of disliking someone who strokes my ego so thoroughly. How can you be disinterested in someone so interested in you? Barry's telling me that he's done his research, liked …
- Edge Rails.info: Rails 3 Resources
- Global Nerdy: AzureFest Redux!
- How Software is Built: Interview with Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic
- PaulBarry.com: Node.js Presentation
…Dev User Group!
Microsoft Canada is extending its special offer to members of user groups: deploy an app to Azure and send us a screenshot, and we'll give $ 25 to the developer user group of your choice. There's a set of step-by-step instructions on Barry's blog.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection .
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Azure - Microsoft's Cloud Platform
- How Software is Built: Interview with Zeev Suraski - CTO Zend, Co-creator PHP
- Opscode Blog: enStratus and Opscode Announce Partnership
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Gold Sponsors - Microsoft
- New Relic: Want real-time visibility into web apps deployed on Microsoft Windows Azure? We've got you covered.
…time, so I could catch all of it, the bits I did catch were pretty entertaining. I expect no less from Barry and the rest of the ObjectSharpies, all of who are top-notch presenters:
Perhaps I'm wearing out this phrase from overuse, but let me say it just once more: Mark Arteaga of RedBit Development has forgotten more about mobile phone development that I will ever learn . He did the first session in the mobile track, providing an overview of developing apps for …
- igvita.com: Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser
- : Sammy 0.4: Here's looking at you
- Developing with Style: I finally did it! My own Web Development Podcast
- AdminMyServer Blog: compass and cufon and 960, oh my
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: The Web Doesn't Suck. Browsers Are Innovating.
- Stake Ventures Inc.: XAuth a useful service with a poor name
Paul Barry talks about creating customized generators
Amp your generators using Thor
Ben Scofield shows you how to create module app templates
There's a new kid in town in Rails 3 - instrumentation. There's not been much written about it yet but here are few nibbles to get you going:
Gavin Stark writes about using instrumentation to log SQL calls
The subscriber class is the main facilitator of instrumentation so give it a look …
- omgbloglol: The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta
- How Software is Built: Interview with Ezra Zygmuntowicz - Engine Yard
- Plataformatec Blog: One in Three: Inherited Resources, Has Scope and Responders
- » Product Launch Blog: Upgrading Rails Applications - Some things to keep in mind!
- Rails Inside: RailsTutorial.org: Michael Hartl's Awesome New Rails Tutorial
- Hobo Blog: 1.0RC1 released!
Last week I presented on node.js at the Baltimore/ DC JavaScript Users Group . Here's the video :
Paul Barry on Node.js at February Baltimore JavaScript Meetup from Shea Frederick on Vimeo .
To make it easier to follow along, here are the slides and the code .