Author Archives: Joe

Openstack Summit Fall 2011 – Wrap-up and overview

I’m back from the OpenStack design summit and conference, just held in Boston, MA. It was a fantastic week, with the first three days dedicated to the design summit – getting down and dirty with the details, and the last … Continue reading

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Installing OpenStack – Diablo release (nova and glance)

I know a lot of folks are using the StackOps script thingy to install OpenStack. I’ve been installing it (quite a bit) lately just from packages, and it’s not all that difficult, so I thought I’d write up the details … Continue reading

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OpenStack Diablo Release Meetup in Seattle

If you’re into OpenStack, come join us on September 28th to celebrate the Diablo release with other stackers in Seattle. HP Cloud Services has graciously offered up their offices at 701 Pike St, Suite 1100, Seattle WA to host a … Continue reading

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As the diablo milestone nears…

In the openstack project, we’re nearing the “Diablo Milestone”. To a large respect, it’s the fourth release of OpenStack. Even as we close down on the tail end of this release, there has been and is a huge amount of … Continue reading

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mental gear shifting and reflections

I’m in this weird mental space today. At work, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into building infrastructure – or more specifically, creating things that build infrastructure. While doing this over the past month, I’ve hit a few interesting … Continue reading

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Crimson Steam

I snagged a copy of Crimson Steam (iTunes link) this past Friday, thinking it would be fun to play with over the labor day weekend. The game play is good, very good actually. It really uses the direct touch style … Continue reading

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Making a board game

It’s been too long, so I’m diving back into IOS development and making a board game. I have a test app (not even close to the final thing) for working out the UI pieces of the game that I just … Continue reading

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Functional testing with Lettuce and Fabric

After the launch of Nebula, from which I think I’m mostly recovered, I’ve been thinking about and working on ways to allow us to accelerate development. Our team has done a fair bit of work on the Openstack Dashboard, an … Continue reading

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Always On Applications, personal style

Almost a year ago I wrote a bit about wanting “Always on” applications. I started out just sort of complaining about the difficultly with current computing devices, and then looked to the future with cloud computing and the price points … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence for Games, Second Edition

I’ve been thinking it’s time to cobble another IOS app up for sale, not just fiddle around with open source client apps (which is a lot of the IOS work I’ve been doing lately). So I found a board game … Continue reading

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