VMware Meeting Follow-up

posted April 24, 2008 by David Moody

 

Today Ian Brill demo’d ITC’s VMware infrastructure. A similar system is hosted by BeTech to host any number of web software development efforts. Currently ITC hosts ~150 web servers utilizing four servers clustered and running VMware. Ian described Vmotion (product for moving live virtual running virtual machines), Virtual Center Server (product for managing the details of virtual machines), VMware High Availability (product for managing automatic replication and fault tolerance), and DRS (product for virtual load balancing).

This stable VMware infrastructure appears to be a solid solution for hosting systems with a high available requirement. Contact ITC Microsystem, ITC-Microsystems@virginia.edu, if you are interested in standing up a new system in this popular VMware system.

If you are interested in developing a test system in a VMware environment, you can get started free of charge by emailing betechlabs@virginia.edu.

Great talk Ian! Thanks from BeTech.

beCamp is coming up!

posted April 23, 2008 by Bess

Mark your calendars for beCamp! beCamp May 2nd-3rd 2008 @ Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), 501 E. Main Street, Charlottesville, VA (on Downtown Mall)

We have 68 registered attendees so far. If you’re planning to come but haven’t yet registered, do it soon so you can get a t-shirt! You can register at http://barcamp.org/beCamp2008.

Last year this event was a huge success, with a huge range of topics from ruby, smalltalk, and solr (which you might expect) to 3D modeling, robotics, and reputation management (which you might not expect, which makes them even cooler). beCamp is whatever YOU want it to be, so bring your ideas for a session.

Event Details

When

  • Friday, May 2nd, 5:00PM-9:00PM
  • Saturday, May 3rd, 9:00AM-5:00PM

Where

  • Charlottesville Business Innovation Council
  • 501 East Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902

Bring

  • Brain
  • Laptop
  • Reference books
  • Games—cards, board games, Legos, video (bring a monitor as well)
  • Snacks, beverages
  • Camera (Flickr tags: beCamp, beCamp2008, BarCamp)
  • Business cards

BeTech Presentation: VMware and You

posted April 23, 2008 by Bess

Meeting: BeTech Presentation: VMware and You
Where: Newcomb Hall (Room 389)
When: Thursday, April 24th : 2:30 pm 3:30 pm (presentation) 3:30 pm - 4:00 (open discussion)

Join us this Thursday, April 24th, at 2:30pm for a presentation by Ian Brill from ITC Microsystems on the subject of VMware. Ian will discuss and demonstrate how departments can obtain and manage virtual servers using the VMware system here at UVa.

If you missed this jam packed VMware session at the LSP conference or would like follow up with a more interactive discussion about how you can take advantage of this rapidly growing resource at UVa, join us this Thursday.

Open Source at U.Va. Presentation

posted March 12, 2008 by Doug

On Wednesday, March 26, Madelyn Wessel and Bethany Nowviskie will present their experience in making the Library’s Blacklight project (http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/) open source.

When/Where:
* Wednesday, March 26
* 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
* Byrd Seminar Room in the Harrison/Small Library
(http://www.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/facilities.html#byrd)
(http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html)

Blacklight is an OPAC (online public access catalog) developed at the University of Virginia Library; it has been made public under an Apache 2.0 license. Blacklight was the first project made possible by beTech Labs and is the first project to come out of beTech Labs as open source.

Madelyn Wessel is Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the General Counsel, focusing on a broad range of library system legal issues including intellectual property, copyright, licensing, and special issues arising in the area of digital scholarship.

Bethany Nowviskie is the Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at U.Va. Library. She is active in digital humanities and is an advocate for academic open source.

beerTech!

posted February 20, 2008 by Bess

Please consider attending beerTech. We’re attempting to maintain the
tradition of holding the beerTech “meeting” on the third Thursday of the
month following the BeTech Community meetings.

Come on out, y’all! We had a great time last month, and I know there have been some new jobs in the community that we all want to hear the juicy details about.

What?: beerTech!
When ?: 6:00PM
Where?: South Street Brewing, 106 W South St, Charlottesville, VA
Who?: You!

Hope to see you there.

OpenID and Ruby Post Meeting Notes

posted February 20, 2008 by David Moody

Below is a quick synopsis of the meeting today. The room was packed. The meeting and info shared was great. Thank you Eric Pugh.

Eric Pugh started off the meeting with the following hilarious youtube.com video “Code Monkey”:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA

Eric explained the wide adoption of OpenID by many of the internet powerhouses like Yahoo, Google, and others. Interesting resource links include:

Eric also show a demo of his “Fish4Brains” application using OpenID put together at the 48hour long Rails Rumble this year. We also discussed the upcoming BeCamp event. Last year this event was tremendous, get involved this year and make it even better. Visit http://barcamp.org/beCamp2008/ for more information and keep up on the developments.

Great information, thank you Eric!

OpenID and Ruby on Rails

posted February 19, 2008 by Doug

This Wednesday, February 20th, Eric Pugh will present on OpenID (using RoR specifically), a decentralized single-sign-on system now used by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and the rest of the world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID for all the juicy tidbits/history/etc.

Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh is the owner of OpenSource Connections, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a committer on many projects including DBUnit, Maven, and Jakarta Commons.

When/Where:
* Wednesday, February 20th
* 2:00pm-3:30pm
* electronic classroom in the Science and Engineering
Library, Clark Hall. (http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html)

Also, Eric would like to get the beTech community involved with the planning and organization of the next beCamp and bring us up to speed with the progress that has been made on beCamp Squared…, beCamp Redux…, beCamp Part Deux…

Hope to see you there!
–Doug

NOTE: For Post Meeting Notes, Read The Follow-up Meeting Post and Any Comments to This Post :)

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