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The holidays have passed, the new year is upon us and there is much geeky goodness to be thankful for. I am thankful for the forums and the wikis, the tech tips and blogs. I am thankful for the outstanding community that drives it all, and the supporting cast of hundreds within F5 that helps support this DevCentral thing we get to do. I am so thankful, in fact, that I am here to share five of my favorite recent DevCentral additions with you. Hurried over the holidays? Nagged after the new year? Fall behind on your feeds? Never fear, I'm more than happy to give you my Top5 picks from past weeks to give you a place to start. Keep in mind there will always be more goodness on DevCentral than anyone could pack into a single missive, even someone as wordy as me, so be sure to get out there and check it out for yourselves. For now, though, here is my first DevCentral Top ... (more)

20 Lines or Less #52: Handshakes, Dynamic IPs, and Destinations

  What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (sometimes?) every week for the DevCentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head. This week nitass and hoolio deliver the 1-2-3 punch with 3 cool iRules to perform various tasks that I deem useful, or interesting, or...both. We get a look at dealing with destination servers with a dynamic IP, handling SSL and non SSL connections on the same VIP to proxy both seamlessly, and selecting a... (more)

iRules Challenge #4 Results: Contemplating Context

In a shocking turn of events, the gracious sales readiness team invited me back to yet again present an iRules Challenge to the inbound FSEs during their multi-week grooming process here at F5 Seattle, lovingly known as "boot camp". It's a joy for me to be a part of these boot camps not only because I get to geek out about iRules and dream up challenges to get people more involved with DevCentral and iRules, two of my main squeezes in the tech world. But also because it's killer to see the talent rolling through, chat with some of them about how and why they ended up here at F5, ... (more)

What Could You Do With Your Code in 20 Lines or Less?

What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head. Well we made it to 30 editions of the 20LoL.  Soon we’ll break 100 iRule examples that are under 21 lines of code each.  Pretty neat stuff, if you ask me.  This week is the hoolio show, it seems.  The guy is just a monster in the forums, what can I say?  I sure am glad he’s on our side.  I’ve got three example... (more)

DevCentral Top5 01/22/2010

Wow! What a whirlwind it's been the past few weeks. Between holidays and vacation and people traveling out of town, it's been an absolute zoo around here. Though I've been out the past week or so there has been an avalanche of content. I've hemmed and hawed and finally managed to slim my picks down to just five, though there are at least a dozen awesome things worth checking out on DevCentral in the past week or so. So don't be shy, get out there and poke around for yourself. For now, though, here are my top 5 picks for the week: v10.1 - The table Command - The Basics http://de... (more)