…application lifecycle metrics and dashboard. The second episode feature John Allspaw, VP of Technical Operations at Etsy, talking about the new role of DevOps in companies. Only more good stuff from there.
Packet Pushers . A great podcast by real experts on seriously technical networking issues . They describe their podcast as: a podcast where we talk about routing, switching, security, firewalls, study and market changes . Some topics covered: "Defense in Depth" …
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…automated infrastructure should be made available to everyone," said John Willis, Vice President of the TSE group for Opscode. "As someone who has literally trained thousands of individuals, I understand just how critical it is to create a robust training ecosystem. We want to help foster a large and vibrant community of Chef experts and this Open Training program is the first of many steps we're taking to help bring this vision to light."
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Join us for a Live Webcast - Chef Overview from Another Perspective
Date: Friday, July 16, 2010
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time ( San Francisco, GMT -07:00)
Instructor: John Willis VP of Services
John Willis, Tivoli refugee, will hold forth on what it's really "all about." This is a free session that will last about an hour and include a fifteen minute Q&A at the end.
Topics Include:
Chef at a Glance
A Tour of Chef
…understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves—'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on...It's very hard to learn about materials academically, by reading about them or watching videos about them; the only way you truly understand a material is by making things with it.
— Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Design, discussing materials and the iPhone 4
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Photo by Ina Fried.
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…team had also brought their big guns, and the meeting was packed with employees of every level - from VP's all the way down to me.
As the meeting progressed, the temperature kept rising. At first, I couldn't even follow the recriminations back-and-forth. Eventually, though, I realized what was at issue: the art team was insisting that the UI for this feature have rounded corners. Incredibly, they were willing to bring the company to a standstill to protest that this was an absolutely …
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…airline management and Web consumer sites. Bill Scott is currently the VP of Product Engineering at Meebo where he leads the UX and Engineering to continually improve the UI of one of the most popular IM aggregators in the world. Previously, as the Director of UI Engineering at Netflix Bill & his team built the Netflix experience for web, TV and most recently, the Apple iPad.
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Arvind Rajan, Vice President, International at LinkedIn
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…the field of search engines; it had a team dedicated to its development and could afford to have a VP of communications. They received plenty of funding ($33M) to get the ball rolling, and garnered a fair bit of press coverage when they first launched.
A very different search engine, however, was started by just one person. It was bootstrapped (no external investors), came wrapped in a silly name, and virtually no one paid attention to its launch.
The first is Cuil (pronounced ‘cool'), …
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Hunter Block, Instigator
Phillip Kelly, Developer
Susan Hwang, Marketer
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