Mike Guerette

There's been a whole lot of interest in Red Hat Software Collections. Attend this webinar and get the latest information from Brian Gollaher and Langdon White about using RHSCL on both Red Hat Software Collections 6 and 7 RC! Read the details: Register now. You need the latest, stable open source development tools to help you create new applications that can be confidently deployed into production. And you need them on a life cycle that's separate from the life cycle...

Donald Rumsfeld was right: it's the unknown unknowns that are the real killers in software development. Design decisions made too early are just speculations without facts. But you must have architecture in place before you can do anything. This session talks about the tension between architecture & design in agile projects, discussing two key elements of emergent design (utilizing the last responsible moment and harvesting idiomatic patterns) and how to de-brittlize your architecture, so that you can play nicely with...

Another excellent OpenShift Enterprise update with more examples of Red Hat Software Collections being converted into OpenShift cartridges: MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4, and soon the additions of Python 3.3 and MongoDB 2.4. Also, I love the "simple, no touch virtual machine (VM) image of OpenShift Enterprise so [customers] can place the image on their laptop and work on cartridges, code, and DevOps models while they are disconnected from their datacenter. As part of your OpenShift Enterprise subscription, we have...

Christian Aubry of Red Hat partner and Montreal-based Savoir-faire Linux (savoirfairelinux.com), interviews Red Hat's Langdon White (PyCon, April 2014) who provides a great introduction (6:31 minutes) of Software Collections, Developer Toolset, and the related connections to Red Hat OpenShift. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/0lcK8L3XDek.jpg?itok=-EjBiQrs","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lcK8L3XDek?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360","settings":{"responsive":true,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":false},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]} Merci, Christian!

Matt Hicks, Red Hat director of OpenShift engineering, ties together these important nascent pieces together for cloud development and deployment. GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic | Openshift Blog.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Candidate now available "As mentioned during Red Hat Summit 2014 last week, we are excited to announce that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now publicly available for testing. A pre-release build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC offers a near-final look at Red Hat’s flagship operating system crafted for the open hybrid cloud, building upon the feedback collected during the beta program for Red...

As we mentioned previously, here's the video of Red Hat's Marina Zhurakhinskaya's PyCon 2014 NA session, Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration. Abstract: "Since 2010, the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women has provided 130 women with an opportunity to participate in remote internships with 23 Free Software organizations. This talk will cover the history of the program, what makes it successful, how the same strategies can be used for engaging all new contributors, and what other initiatives help...

I had the pleasure to speak with hundreds of people at PyCon (and kudos to their organizers as they turned out a great event) and DevNation (another excellent event along with Red Hat Summit that really filled up the Moscone center in San Francisco), and the responses about Red Hat Software Collections were extremely positive and consistent. This succinct comment was my favorite: "Software collections saved my hide." It's rewarding to know that we're addressing what had been a gap...