Category: Developer

  • Step Zero: Schedule Your First Event

    Whether you’re curious about the open source world or hacked on the kernel back in the 90s, we’d love to see you at PatchMakers.

  • Who Down With OCP?!?

    YEAH YOU KNOW ME! I went to six conferences in forty eight days and that’s just a bit overwhelming. I had this abstract idea that it was over the course of the around eight weeks or so but then I looked at the actual dates and pulled it up on a calendar calculator and now…

  • What We’ve Learned So Far

    As I’ve been rebuilding this site. In case you hadn’t noticed. I have. Cause of the hack. And this is what I’ve learned so far… Backups Aren’t Necessary UNTIL THEY ARE If I had been maintaining regular backups (which the hosting company is totally happy to do for just a few euros more per month),…

  • Your LEGO Order Has Been Shipped

    In preparation for the Red Hat Summit this week and OpenStack Summit in a week, I put together a hardware demo to sit in the RDO booth. I know, I know – the title has LEGO in it and now I’m talking tech. Bait and switch, AMIRITE?!? I promise it’s relevant. So I put together…

  • Very Pleased To Announce DevConf.IN

    Are you an OpenStack RDO user, developer, administrator or operator who wants to explore the wonders of Bangalore India? Want to know more about OpenStack, Centos, Ansible, Gluster, Kubernetes and MySQL and how they can all fit together? The wait is over! DevConf has come to India!

  • All Your Repos Are Belong To Us

    Today (and tomorrow) are the RDO Mitaka Test Days in Brno, Czech Republic and I spent a few hours this morning catching up on the tripleo quickstart live demonstration video and the rest of the day bashing my head against the packstack sanity checks for RHEL 7.2, CentOS 7.1, and Fedora 22. And I took awesome notes. To share with you.…

  • Change is Terrifying. Do it Anyway.

    On Saturday, 05 March, I am one of the keynote speakers for Django Girls den Haag. Hi. My name is Rain Leander. Welcome to Django Girls den Haag. Today I’m going to talk about programming – what it is, why you should do it, what you can do with it. I’m going to tell you my…

  • Hello, My Name Is

    I am in the midst of a new position within Red Hat and part of the new responsibilities include applying to public speaking opportunities all over the world. And since you have to include a short biography with these applications, I decided it was time for a bit of an overhaul. For perspective, here is the old…

  • The Beginning of Something Beautiful

    Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with a few people about my idea, The Project, and started posting about it here and there. I spoke with friends and family about it and got some response via social media. Then I did this thing. This past weekend. I ran over to the big building to attend StartupWeekend Groningen 2015. Based on The…

  • So I spoke at PyGrunn

    And I just now found the video which has been up since June 2 this year by looking for “K Rain Leander” results via images.google.com. If I search for the same phrase on google.com it doesn’t show on the first page, which is not ideal. I’m so bored with those previous sentences that I fell…

  • HowToBasic presents How To Uninstall Internet Explorer

    I love everything about this video. I love that we can relate to the frustration when internet explorer won’t load. I love that he takes it one step further. And one step further after that. And another one more. I love the sound of his voice.

  • And now I’m a Software Engineer

    I recently switched career paths within Red Hat, but I looked simultaneously outside and within the company for the next opportunity. The not-so-obvious sign it’s time to switch jobs resonates with how that search went and my final decision to stay.