Francesco Crippa

RHCA is one of the most interesting certification I’ve never seen in information technology marketplace. To pass all exams you’ve got to DO what you have to know, not only make a check into multiple choice questions.

It was hard, but I’m happy because yesterday I received  the result of my last exam: passed!

Today, I am RHCA!

For the first time I think to have a “valid” certification to show my own skills In Italy it’s pretty unusual. University degrees, certifications and so on are usually not related to practically experiences: you can have a master degree in information technology or computer science without know how using your mouse…

Changing this point of view is hard, but I think it’s not impossible. RHCA is a reality. I hope other companies will follow RedHat way. I think it’s the right way.

Murphy never makes a mistake!

In a project with tons of “overhead complexity”, what do you expect after hard months of work? When you’re so near to the goal… When you can feel it on your fingers…

…simply new architecture. x86_64? Itanium? PowerPC?

Too simple (…and too smart…).

Just i386…

…with 16Gb RAM machines…

…with full x86_64 yum repositories (with custom rpms for WebSphere and other strange things)…

…with complete puppet and puppet-team 64bit config support…

…we now have to rebuild all provisioning and configuration management subsystem in order to support “new” i386 machines…

So, we never forget the past. Never.

Amiga500, I’m waiting for you next upgrade!!!

Wonderful evening spent in “Boccon Divino” during last “Byte-Code” Christmas Party.

Food was very very very very good, but it was really really really too much for us… I’ve never left dessert for ages, but there’s always a first time After last cheese I couldn’t eat anything else. I won’t be able to be hungry for (at least) next week…

But food was not the main topic of the party… alcohol’s, wine and “grappa” were the really leaders of the evening. Please, have a look of my flickr shots to see what happened

If you have to install Zimbra on a single machine with a public IP, your life will be easy and relaxing.

But, if you have to install Zimbra on a server with private IP behind a public reverse proxy with mod_security (and other funny security stuff), and you don’t want to use external relay MTA, your life will be fully of terrible pains!

Obviously Byte-Code has this kind of internal mail server… so this week I’ve made a strange thing to made possible using Zimbra behind a reverse proxy

Here you are some suggestions:

• Remove some mod_security rules not compliant with Zimbra:
  • SecRuleRemoveById 960010 950006 960015 960017 970903
• On Zimbra internal server setup some aliasing IP addresses, with real public ip (don’t worry. It’s only for localhost communications)… one for each real server configured (this is the key of the post! with this useless configuration you can cheat Zimbra about MTA server)
• On Zimbra control panel check “DNS lookup” on both “Global Settings” and server panels.

Life in Byte-Code could be described with two different words: mobility and movability.

The day before yesterday I had breakfast in Milan, lunch in Lecce and dinner in Rome… and my tasks spacing from Linux, clusters, gfs to identity management, mail systems and thin-client projects… (only for this week…)

These are good reasons in order to:

• have a laptop
• have a good book to read
• do not have a desktop
• have a mobile phone with “push-mail” capability
• have an umbrella into laptop-bag (always)
• do not live in a country where Alitalia is the principal air carrier
• have “15 days” a week
• have “25 hours” a day

Wonderful news in Byte-Code! Some days ago, Byte-Code has won “Best Commitment and Partnership” at the “RedHat and Magirus Partner Awards”

This award was really unexpected, but I’m pleased to write this post in order to say thanks to all Byte-Code’s employees.

Thanks for all your great work

Best Commitment and Partnership

And the winner is….

Davide and Carmen

Here you are my slides concerning RPMs presented yesterday on Byte-Code kickoff.

It’s very basically presentation… Tell me if you need more detailed information….

Download PDF

Do you know… Jboss has the same diffusion in enterprise environment that IBM Websphere? Here you are the diffusion of most important J2EE (now JEE) application servers:

• JBoss:   37%
• IBM WebSphere:   37%
• Bea Weblogic:   27%
• Oracle Fusion:   27%

Useful JBoss partner meeting…

Davide

Meeting room

Monza Race Track uses Witick, a powerful authentication system made by Byte-Code. This week I, Simone and Mirco have to deploy it. Great opportunity to visit the circuit, press room and to do a trip on the podium.

Press Room

Podium

Today Lucia had an interviews with Antonio about new RedHat investments on Italian marketplace, with Byte-Code and Magirus (VAD Byte-Code partner) considerations.

This is what Lucia said:

“Essere partner di Red Hat significa far parte di un gruppo elitario che basa il proprio focus sulla condivisione di una scelta strategica molto chiara: un modello di business aperto e collaborativo. Un modello a sviluppo condiviso che permette di beneficiare di tutti gli investimenti che ogni singolo apporta al sistema, garantendo un accesso agile alle nuove tecnologie e consentendoci di diventare “batti-pista” di nuove soluzioni sul mercato IT”, ha dichiarato Lucia Losi, Responsabile Amministrativo di Byte-Code. “Il forte legame che esiste tra le soluzioni che proponiamo e le scelte di campo proposte da Red Hat permette di “costruire” soluzioni ad altissimo valore aggiunto in grado di competere e dominare un mercato ancora molto spesso legato a soluzioni proprietarie e poco innovative. Red Hat e’ stata per noi una scelta strategica di sicuro successo!”.

You can read entire interview by follow this link (only in Italian, I’m sorry)