Tag: developers
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OSCON: Talking OpenShift, RedHat’s Platform as a Service
Last but not least in my series of video from last month’s OSCON is an interview I did with Steve Citron-Pousty, Developer Evangelist for Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS. Take a listen to what the ever-entertaining Steve CP has to say: Note: As with my interview with Neil of Inktank, I used Youtube’s feature that is supposed to fix an unsteady…
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OSCON: AppDynamics and application performance management
Today’s OSCON interview takes us into the land of application performance modeling and features Dustin Whittle, Technical Evangelist at AppDynamics. AppDynamics provides performance management for Java, .Net and PHP applications. Check out what Dustin has to say about the wild and wacky world of APM: Some of the ground Dustin covers What does AppDynamics…
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OSCON: Apigee and APIs
The week before last when I was out at OSCON I caught up with Sam Ramji VP of Strategy at Apigee. I got Sam to tell me about his company and the future of APIs. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the ground Sam covers: What does Apigee do. How well is the…
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OSCON: The Project Sputnik story & giveaway
Last week, Dell was out in force in Portland, Oregon, representing at OSCON. We had a booth and gave a few talks. The talk that Cote and I delivered covered the story behind the Project Sputnik: Connecting the client to the cloud – The Sputnik Story : Give it away, give it away, give it…
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Shuttleworth raves about Dell XPS13 developer edition
At the OpenStack summit last month we caught up with Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Below is a quick snippet taken from our chat with Mark where he talks about the Dell XPS 13 developer edition aka Project Sputnik. Mark dubs the system “freakin’ awesome” and the “environment of choice for anyone doing web…
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Talking about Project Sputnik and the importance of Devs to Dell
At Dell World I was interviewed about Project Sputnik, the resulting XPS 13 Developer Edition we launched and the importance of developers. Here’s the interview (notice my fashion forward blue Dell shirt 😉 Extra-credit reading Dell World Triples Attendance, Rewards Attendees with Prizes & Expanded Online Experience Pau for now…
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XPS 13 Developer Edition takes off
I wanted to get one more quick post in before I head out for the holidays. Things have been crazy since the XPS 13 Developer Edition launched almost three weeks ago. In fact no sooner did we start to catch our breath from the product’s launch that Dell World took place. We had a lot…
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Initial thoughts from the Project Sputnik Beta Cosmonauts
The Project Sputnik Beta program has been going for several weeks now. We have an intrepid group of cosmonauts and there have been a bunch of blogs posted, tweets tweeted and a flurry of activity on the forum. In general the feedback has been very positive with some folks having issues around wifi and the…
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OSCON: Project Sputnik Explained + Coverage recap
The week before last I had a fantastic time at OSCON, seeing old friends and making new ones. As always, the hallway track was the one I found most enlightening. On the second day we announced that project Sputnik would be going from project to product in the fall and got a fantastic response (see…
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Project Sputnik to go from Pilot to Product
A couple of weeks ago we announced a Beta program for the four-month old Project Sputnik — an effort to investigate creating a developer focused laptop based on Ubuntu and Dell’s XPS13 laptop. Since the beta announcement we have received thousands of applications from around the world. This tremendous response, on top of fantastic amount…
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Announcing project Sputnik Beta program
Last week project Sputnik got an official presence on dell.com. While the project is still a skunk works effort rather than a product, we are rapidly gaining traction within the company. If you’re not familiar with project Sputnik, its a laptop pilot targeted at developers and based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS. The new…
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Sputnik update: Touchpad driver now available!!!
If you’ve been following project Sputnik — a developer laptop pilot based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS — you’ll know that the biggest draw back in these initial weeks has been the lack of multi-touch support in the touchpad. For some this has been annoying, for others this has been such a pain…
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Sputnik update: Profile tool and touchpad
I’ve meant to blog more frequently around Sputnik but it’s been crazy busy marshalling resources within Dell for our little skunk works project. We have captured a lot attention within the company and are trying to leverage that attention to help beef up our core team. One of the areas outside the company we have…
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Sputnik…Wow!!
We knew that project Sputnik, the idea of creating a developer laptop based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS, would have appeal but we never could have anticipated the response we’ve gotten. To put it into perspective, the most cumulative views I’ve had of a blog entry before Sputnik was 2,700. My post introducing…
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Copper: Dell goes out ARMed
We’ve been watching the ARM market develop over the past few years as these highly efficient chips that have been driving tablets and cell phones have been finding their way more and more into hyperscale servers. Well watch no more, today were are sallying forth. Why now? Because some of our biggest customers have told…
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Redmonk on Developers and Project Sputnik
Today at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit here in Oakland I grabbed sometime with Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. It was Stephen who originally brought up the idea of creating a Dell laptop running Ubuntu targeted at developers. I talked to Stephen about how he would characterize today’s world of developers and what he feels project Sputnik…
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Talking about Project Sputnik
Last Friday Cote and I took a break from the mad rush getting ready for today’s Sputnik announce and grabbed a conference room to record a short video. Below we discuss the project, how it came about, what its goals are and where it could go from here. -> Weigh in on Dell IdeaStorm: Project…
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Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop
-> Update 2/18/2013: Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe -> Update 11/29/2012: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is: Made possible by an internal…