Why use virtual containers?

Traditional software development:

• Business need
• Approval process   }
• Hardware purchase  } Use IaaS instead - Infrastructure as a service
• Software development
• Deployment         } Use PaaS instead - Platform as a service
• Feedback

The future:

• Linux containers AKA Docker
• Security/compliance are happy
• Operations are happy
• Business is happy
• Developers are happy
• Kubernetes
• June 2014: Google open source container management project
• Red Hat is collaborating

Source: Jeremy Brown of tenfourty.com / @tenfourty

Best Android calendar notifications

Options:

• Google calendar (built in) - notification icon only stays visible for duration of "event", so not suitable for reminding you to do something, if you don't check your phone at the right time, you won't see anything. Notifications are only visible if you pull down the notification drawer.
• isoTimer - notification stays there, but app has a slightly weird UI and is slow.
• Touch Calendar - ?

Gmail on iPhone "username or password is incorrect"

"The user name or password for imap.gmail.com is incorrect"

To fix, go here and enable access:
http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

But what you really want to do is create a one-time application-specific password:

• Go to Google account settings: https://www.google.com/settings/account
• Click "security"
• Click "Manage your application specific passwords"
• Create a new password and use that on your device

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How to checkout hosted subversion project

Google code:

svn checkout https://example.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ example_directory --username example@gmail.com

Assembla:

svn checkout https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/example/ example_directory --username your_username

Custom blog search

http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/07/search-widget-for-your-blog.html

Ways to access Google Reader on Blackberry

• Blackberry browser - Google Reader site doesn't work, site says it's loading too slowly and fails.
• Blackberry browser - add all RSS feeds manually as bookmarks - too tedious.
• Opera Mini - Google Reader works. Opera settings:
• Mobile view: off
• Full screen: on
• View Google Reader in: Mobile view (link at bottom of web page)
• Apps on Blackberry Curve 8900, Platform 5.2.0.67, App Version 5.0.0.681
• BeReader 1.1.49 (BerryReader, free trial) - I logged in and selected 'choose feed', it crashed with "Uncaught exception: Application berryreader(421) is not responding; process terminated".
• Viigo 3.1.507 - Works great for its built-in feeds, but adding my Google Reader results in "no feeds" warning and "authentication error". Also can't change font size or wrap titles, so you only see the first 4-6 words of the title. Loading the article is fast though.

Make IMAP Gmail work on blackberry

If you enter your Google email address when prompted, there is no way to configure advanced settings to make IMAP accounts work. In fact, I called Orange and was told that their Blackberries do not support IMAP with Gmail, and it does not work.

But they are wrong. It does work - you need to enter an email address that is not one of the major commercial providers, but does host email accounts. I used a fake email alias @ a domain I know has a working mail record: siteaboutnothing.com

Then, as you follow the prompts, choose "Advanced settings" or similar, and you are able to set the server to imap.gmail.com and change the email address back to your gmail account.

I now have it set up so messages marked as read on my phone are sync'ed with my main gmail account and I don't have to manage two accounts at once.