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Recent Interview with BizTech Magazine

Steve Jin — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:54:14 +0000

I just did an interview with Ricky Ribeiro, who is online content manager of BizTech Magazine. It was published last week as part of the Q&A series of Must Read IT blogs. In response to Ricky’s great questions, I shared thoughts on a broad range of topics, including blogging, cloud computing, and technical innovation in [...]

Recent Interview with BizTech Magazine originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

More Development Jobs

Steve Jin — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:47:51 +0000

Last November I posted several jobs from our software team, they were all filled. As VCE grows rapidly at a runrate of $800M at the end of last year, we are now having more jobs. In my group, I have two development jobs opened. Should you be interested or know of someone who may be [...]

More Development Jobs originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

View Driven Development

Steve Jin — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:46:25 +0000

In the world of VMware, “view” is an overloaded term which is used in desktop, vSphere APIs, and PowerCLI. Outside VMware, you can also find it in MVC architecture, which basically divides a software system into model, view, and controller. This separation has become a basic programming paradigm in modern software design and development. This [...]

View Driven Development originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Rethink About Test Driven Development and Unit Testing

Steve Jin — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:41:31 +0000

If you are familiar with agile processes, it’s most likely you also know of, or even practice, test driven development (TDD). Several years ago I read the book Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck, and found the idea pretty interesting. After that, I rarely found myself using or even thinking about this methodology. I am not [...]

Rethink About Test Driven Development and Unit Testing originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Common Pitfalls When Developing Virtual Appliances

Steve Jin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:53:30 +0000

A virtual appliance is a virtual machine preinstalled with operating system, middleware, and applications. It’s ready to run after a few configurations after powering up. The benefit of delivering a virtual appliance is obvious – it offers better out of box experience due to simplified installation/configuration and complete isolation from other applications. The disadvantage is [...]

Common Pitfalls When Developing Virtual Appliances originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Cisco Nexus 1000V in VMware vSphere API

Steve Jin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:39:02 +0000

While working at VMware, I always wondered what Cisco Nexus 1000V looked like from VMware vSphere API. Because I didn’t have access to such a system, I had no way to investigate further. This remained a myth to me until I joined VCE where I found many Vblock systems with Cisco Nexus 1000V as part of [...]

Cisco Nexus 1000V in VMware vSphere API originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Random Thoughts on Software Design

Steve Jin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:55:16 +0000

Three months ago, I wrote an article Random Thoughts on IT Automation. I think it’s a pretty good style for capturing ideas without worrying much about content organization and flow. So I decide to use it again on software design which I have been practicing and thinking for many years. Process • A good software design starts [...]

Random Thoughts on Software Design originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Recent Hot Topics in Software Development

Steve Jin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:20:56 +0000

InfoQ, one of my favorite sites on software, recently posted an article Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2012. If you missed the conference but are still interested in recent trends of software development, it’s definitely a great read. I browsed through the article, and found several interesting points there including the [...]

Recent Hot Topics in Software Development originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

IT Infrastructure: A Software Perspective

Steve Jin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:00:49 +0000

Weeks ago, ThoughtWorks published a new issue of Technology Radar compiled by its senior tech leaders. It has done a great job to track latest technology and market trends since 2010 (for archives, scroll to the bottom of this page). Given the company’s business and the authors’ expertise in customized software consulting, the focus is around [...]

IT Infrastructure: A Software Perspective originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Learning Netbeans Platform For Building Java Applications

Steve Jin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:53:15 +0000

Recently I started to build a stand-alone Java application. The first thing I thought of was to use Eclipse, which I have been using since 2000. As you may know, the Eclipse family has a framework called Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) for building standalone application. In fact, Eclipse IDE is now built on top [...]

Learning Netbeans Platform For Building Java Applications originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.