Tag: developers
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The 5 Tech Podcasts I Listen to (and You Should Too)
I listen to a lot of podcasts. Like many people, I listen in the car, in the morning while getting ready, at night before bed, and when doing things around the house. They run the gamut. Some are built around short stories, others take deep dives into individual songs, some are interview-based, others focus on…
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Project Sputnik: Want to join the cause?
Passionate about Linux? About Developers? We’ll have we got the opportunity for you. 😊 The Project Sputnik team is planning to beef up our efforts and we’re looking for a passionate soul to join the cause and help drive Dell’s line of developer laptops and workstations. This individual would have an opportunity to handle community…
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Sputnik turns 6! Presenting the folks behind it
Six years ago today the first Project Sputnik system appeared on dell.com. It all started at the beginning of 2012 with a pitch to an internal innovation committee. A month after the pitch, on the ides of March, the committee gave the go ahead for an exploratory project to test out the idea of a…
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XPS 13 Developer Edition — the 7th gen is here!
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline. Today I am excited to announce the availability of the 7th generation of the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition. Project…
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Project Sputnik Turns Five!
It was five years ago today, on November 29, 2012, that the first Project Sputnik system was launched. Who would have thought we would have made it this far. The reason why Project Sputnik is not only still around but keeps growing is because of the developer community. In fact, without the input and support…
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Video Interviews from Cloud Foundry Summit
Back in June I attended the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, CA and grabbed a bunch of interviews. As an example, here is a quick summary of the summit as seen through the eyes of Tech evangelist and commentator Ben Kepes: Ben Kepes Ben talks about the great vibe and community as well as…
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Video Walk thru of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (9350)
Last night as I was surfing the interwebs, I came across a “Tech Pills” video that covers the XPS 13 developer edition (9350). [The 9350 is the generation that proceded the current offering (9360) which came out in October. The two systems utilize the same chassis and the former features the Skylake processor whereas the latter…
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XPS 13 Developer Edition launches in US, Ubuntu-based Workstations available worldwide
[ Update– April 7: i5 config now available] [Update — March 28: Precision 7510 and 7710 now available] Today I am excited to announce the worldwide launch of the Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations along with the US launch of the 5th generation of the XPS 13 developer edition. Part of Project Sputnik, these systems began…
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4th gen Dell XPS 13 developer edition available!
I would first like to thank everyone for their patience and support as we worked through various bugs that crept up. This has taken longer than we would have liked but I’m happy to say that as of today, the Dell XPS 13 developer edition is now available in the United States, Canada and Europe! A short history…
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Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
The next interview in my series from Dell World features Julio Tapia of Red Hat. Julio is a global director for Red Hat’s platform as a service, OpenShift. I got Julio to give me a quick overview of OpenShift, where Dell plays and what they are planning going forward. Some of the ground Julio covers…
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App Think Tank: The skills and people IT needs most
Yesterday I featured the first of three videos that tackle the topic — the skills CIOs and IT need for success. Today’s video features Ranga Jayaraman, Associate Dean and CIO of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Ranga responds to the question, how would you set up your IT environment today if you had the luxury of…
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24 Hours of Pizza-fueled Innovation
Postponed: Over the weekend, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to postpone our first hackathon. Stay tuned for more details. Im very psyched to announce Dell’s first Hackathon which will be happening next week right here in Austin. The Dell Center for Entrepreneurs and Dell Software Information Management Solutions are teaming up…
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“New Age of Apps” Think Tank to be streamed Live
On Thursday, January 23 Dell services will be hosting a think tank in Silicon Valley at the venture capital firm NEA. While hosted in the Bay Area, the event will be streamed live for viewing around the world. The title of the Think Tank is “The new age of apps and delivery gaps” and we…
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DevOps Days NYC: Mark Imbriaco of GitHub
Here is the first in a series of interviews I conducted in October at DevOps Days NYC. My first interview is with Mark Imbriaco, ops dude extraordinaire at GitHub who previously ran ops for 37signals, Heroku, and LivingSocial. GitHub, if you’re not familiar with it is a code hoster that boasts around 5 million users and…
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Insight into the technology behind Goldman Sachs
Last week I attended the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas. I went to talk to customers, do booth duty (I talked about the app-centric world and how IT can best respond to it) and check out a few sessions. The best session I attended was a power-point-free discussion with Don Duet, Co-head of…
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IDC predicts fierce battle for developers in 2014
A couple of weeks ago IDC put out their predictions for 2014, saying “2014 Will Be a Year of Escalation, Consolidation, and Innovation as the Transition to IT’s “3rd Platform” Accelerates.” The part that really caught my eye was the the second half of the following sentence: “In 2014, we’ll see every major player make…
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Whitepaper: Learning from Web Companies to drive Innovation
Today I finally get to debut a white paper that Michael Cote, now of the 451 Research, and I started quite a while back: Learning from Web companies to drive Innovation – Embracing DevOps, Scale and Open Source Software The basic theme of the paper is that Web companies set the agenda for the IT…
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Introducing Sputnik 3 and its unofficial big brother
First, a little background. Nearly a year ago today we launched the first Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. This Ubuntu-based client-to-cloud platform was the result of an internal skunkworks effort, Project Sputnik. Thanks to strong community input and support the project became a product. Within a few months of launching the initial XPS 13 Developer…
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Project Sputnik Profile Tool: Dell commits engineering resources, Docker joins the cause and we want your input!
When we first introduced Project Sputnik over a year ago we talked about two community projects: the profile tool and the cloud launcher. We garnered a fair amount of attention and made some progress but unfortunately not as much as I would have liked. I am very happy to report therefore that recently we have…
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My O’Reilly Video — Telling the Project Sputnik story
While I interviewed a bunch of folks at OSCON, I also got the chance to be on the other end of the camera. On Thursday of the event I sat down with Meghan Blanchette, editor at O’Reilly media and we talked about Project Sputnik, where it’s been and where it’s going. Check it out: Some…