Developers (Devs) and Operations (Ops) rarely get along in an organization. While developers focus on self-service, rapid deployment, framework, and package flexibility, operations staff members are more interested in a consistent and reliable infrastructure, control over resource allocation, and relief from multiple deployment requests. Staff working on both sides often get frustrated, and tend to ignore each other. Developers want “NoOps,” and operations want “NoDevs.” However both Devs and Ops work for the same organization.
This month, we celebrate twelve Stackato ActiveState developers who share thoughts about the product, little known facts about them, and what they want for Christmas.
It was cold, windy, snowy, and rainy in Frankfurt, Germany this week, but it was a warm, comfortable, and energizing tech environment at the Messe Frankfurt where I attended the HP Discover 2012 Conference. This year’s event was a big draw. The world-class conference centre became an incredibly lively place, a HP hub for HP customers and partners, with over 9,500 attendees, seven keynote presentations, and 360 breakout sessions. I felt invigorated the entire time I was there.
We introduced Logyard in Stackato 2.4 as a way to stream system logs to external log aggregators. In addition, we started using Logyard to manage application logs. In the recently released Stackato 2.6, both these aspects are being brought to near perfection.
This is a short and sweet PSA about our RSS feed. In a nutshell, we're moving our RSS feed location. Anyone viewing the blog via RSS should update to the new feed at www.activestate.com/blog/rss.xml.
If you are newly adding the feed, you will automatically use the new feed location.
A Komodo customer recently asked for us to make adding image tags painless the way he was used to in his previous editor. Instead of typing some HTML and the URI, he wanted to pick the image file via a dialog box, and have Komodo do all the work. Well, I could file a bug, and he could then wait for the next development cycle to release a fix.
FIRST THINGS FIRST: Google Chrome is flagging Komodo installers as "malicious". Rest assured, Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit are NOT malicious files set out to stream all personal data off your computer and into an evil doer's dirty hard drive.
Since Stackato's GA (general availability) release in February, many of our customers and prospective customers have expressed their concern about vendor lock-in: They don't want to write applications that are specific to a single vendor's cloud infrastructure.
This month, we celebrate twelve Stackato ActiveState developers who share thoughts about the product, little known facts about them, and what they want for Christmas. 
This week, ActiveState was in Frankfurt, Germany to attend the 
I'm happy to announce that Stackato 2.6 is now available! It was a quick update from 
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FIRST THINGS FIRST: Google Chrome is flagging Komodo installers as "malicious". Rest assured, Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit are NOT malicious files set out to stream all personal data off your computer and into an evil doer's dirty hard drive.
