BoxGrinder

Bob McWhirter presented a keynote titled The Cloud Computing Continuum at TheServerSide Java Symposium which took place in Las Vegas this week. You can read the abstract here. We're happy to share the slides, enjoy! ......

I'm happy to announce availability of new BoxGrinder Build version. 1.0.0.Beta2 is a bugfix release. We focused us on easy delivering of BoxGrinder Build too. From now we use RubyGems to deliver BoxGrinder Build releases -- there is no need to ... [More] grab sources. For always up to date versions go to BoxGrinder Build RubyGem page. We added Fedora 12 support to BoxGrinder too, now you can build also Fedora 12 images. If you're using Fedora (11 or 12) you can also add BoxGrinder repo to your setup and run: yum install rubygem-boxgrinder-build to install BoxGrinder Build. With new BoxGrinder Build version we released brand...... [Less]

This year I had the chance to attend Jazoon 2010. In short - it was a great conference. Not only because of many good talks, but mostly because I had the met many great guys. First day On the first ... [More] day I finally met Bela Ban. We talked about a few things which may improve clustering of JBoss EAP in the Cloud, so stay tuned! We saw also Dan Allen presenting CDI with RESTeasy. This was a nice wrap-up for the topic, really though-out examples, liked it! Heiko Braun presented two talks about GWT used in large scale applications. I'm not familiar with GWT, nor want to be for now, but the presentation showed us...... [Less]

I'm very excited to announce new BoxGrinder Build! Before I dive into technical details please let me explain some non-technical aspects. From this version we introduced a new versioning scheme. This will help us to play nice with RubyGems. ... [More] It'll be "Linux kernel"-like versioning. I created a wiki page to explain it a bit more. If you have still questions, feel free to use our forums and ask. Announced 0.4.0 release is a stable version. Let me now highlight some important technical changes. New usage After some releases based on Rake we decided to move away from it. Don't understand us wrong - Rake...... [Less]

We released today new BoxGrinder Build version that fixes BGBUILD-24. The problem was that SELinux set to enforced mode generated a kernel panic on EC2 and VMware for CentOS/RHEL images. To update to new version run: ... [More] gem update boxgrinder-build JUDCon A friendly reminder: JUDCon is coming! We (well, Bob) will be at JUDcon in Boston in a few days (21 June). Catch Bob, buy him a beer and talk about the Cloud and StormGrind! ...... [Less]

It's a busy week for JBossians. We're all (well, almost) in Boston attending JUDCon and JBoss World/Red Hat Summit. StormGrind was represented by Bob at JUDCon. We had two presentations: Cooling Tower/CirrAS and BoxGrinder. If you hadn't ... [More] chance to attend JUDCon – we uploaded slides especially for you! P.S. Did you know that CityTech mobile application prepared for JBoss World / Red Hat Summit is based on CirrAS? Thanks CityTech! Read more on how it's made on CityTech blog post. ...... [Less]

BoxGrinder Build 0.5.0 released! I'm really happy to announce new BG release. Many people are waiting, so let's go into details! Fedora 13 support for EC2 This was a big task. Thank to guys at Amazon and ... [More] Fedora/Red Hat community we make it come true. Fedora 13 runs smoothly on EC2! This was possible because Amazon released new PVGrub kernel images. With that AKI's we can run our own (installed on AMI) kernel instead of forced by Amazon's. Goodbye old kernels! This opens new possibilities for Fedora on EC2, for example there is a plan for Fedora 14+ to have official AMI's on EC2....... [Less]

Recently we published slides from presentations Bob gave (thanks Bob!) at JUDCon 2010 in Boston. Now we have also videos thank to our video team! Enjoy! ......

Wile releasing BoxGrinder Build 0.0.5 I promised a developer guide with information on how to write own BoxGrinder plugin. I created a wiki page with the process explained in details. Let us know how helpful it was! ......

JBoss PaaS Yesterday Red Hat announced in a webcast a new PaaS solution based on JBoss and Red Hat products. You can read more about this on JBoss PaaS dedicated site. Red Hat PaaS press release ... [More] contains valuable information too! We're very excited and encourage you to look closely to JBoss PaaS. BoxGrinder news New website! Since yesterday BoxGrinder has a new project page and community space! We're very proud to see our kid standing on its own legs. BoxGrinder Build 0.5.1 released With the new site we released also a new BoxGrinder version: 0.5.1. This is mostly a bugfix release including boxgrinder-core, boxgrinder-build and a few plugins. Here is the full list of bugs fixed in this release: [BGBUILD-40] - Augeas...... [Less]