Langdon White
Passionate technical leader with a proven success record architecting and implementing high-impact software systems for companies ranging from startups to large companies. Participated as an executive, architect, and developer for over 150 projects. In-depth knowledge and experience architecting Microservices (nee SOA), containers, CMS and portal solutions on various platforms. At present, re-architecting a Linux Distribution for more flexibility in a containerized world. Evangelist and implementer of the “perpetual beta,” the promise of DevOps, and the hybrid cloud as ways to create more resilient and usable web applications. Published and spoken at professional and industry conferences.
Langdon White's contributions
Python 2 support is going away soon: Make the move to Python 3
Langdon White
Support for Python 2 ends January 1, 2020; make plans to move to Python 3 now.
What, no Python in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8?
Langdon White
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, we have moved Python off to the side and introduced the concept of Application Streams based on Modularity.
What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?
Langdon White
Of course RHEL 8 has Python, both Python 3 and 2. Changes in RHEL 8 such as platform python and application streams improve the Python experience in RHEL.
Introducing Application Streams in RHEL 8
Langdon White
Learn how AppStreams enables us to deliver multiple version streams of packages, which lets you choose which version you want to install.
Introducing CodeReady Linux Builder
Langdon White
The RHEL 8 introduces a new repository, the CodeReady Linux Builder (or “Builder” for short) that developers may need while developing applications for RHEL. As you all know “developer” is not a one size fits all term. As a result, I am taking this opportunity to try to explain when you might need Builder enabled for your development activities. First off, if you are a typical web developer, dealing with PHP, Ruby, or Perl you are unlikely to need the...
Announcing the DevConf.US 2018 developer conference
Langdon White
Registration for DevConf.US, a great open source Red Hat–sponsored community technology conference for contributors to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and those who want to learn more about it, is now open and the schedule is live.
Rachel Laycock joins DevNation 2016 as a general session speaker
Mike Guerette
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We are pleased to announce that Rachel Laycock, Head of Technology for North America at ThoughtWorks, will be joining us at DevNation 2016 as a general session speaker. With her background in Agile, Continuous Delivery, and strategy, Rachel is uniquely qualified to explain why CD is more than simply using new tools. This is certainly a relevant topic for everyone - should be fun! Welcome, Rachel! RACHEL'S ABSTRACT: There are several factors to adopting the practices of Continuous Delivery. Most...
Making SCL use a little saner
Langdon White
Personally, I find it difficult to remember which SCLs ( software collections) I have enabled while I am doing development. Or, perhaps more likely, when I get distracted from development and I come back to the window I was using before. As a result, I added the following to my bashrc which displays in the prompt what SCLs are enabled. if [ "$X_SCLS" ]; then PRETTY_SCLS=${X_SCLS// /,} PRETTY_SCLS=${PRETTY_SCLS/%,/} PS1="($PRETTY_SCLS) $PS1" fi Someday, maybe I'll figure out the fancy that is...
Python 2 support is going away soon: Make the move to Python 3
Support for Python 2 ends January 1, 2020; make plans to move to Python 3 now.
What, no Python in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8?
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, we have moved Python off to the side and introduced the concept of Application Streams based on Modularity.
What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?
Of course RHEL 8 has Python, both Python 3 and 2. Changes in RHEL 8 such as platform python and application streams improve the Python experience in RHEL.
Introducing Application Streams in RHEL 8
Learn how AppStreams enables us to deliver multiple version streams of packages, which lets you choose which version you want to install.
Introducing CodeReady Linux Builder
Announcing the DevConf.US 2018 developer conference
Registration for DevConf.US, a great open source Red Hat–sponsored community technology conference for contributors to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and those who want to learn more about it, is now open and the schedule is live.
Rachel Laycock joins DevNation 2016 as a general session speaker
Making SCL use a little saner