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Earlier this year we held an event called Red Hat Developer Exchange which is a one day conference for developers who leverage any of the Red Hat products. We had a great bunch of sessions but, one of the ones I did was about "Secure Development Practices." What does that mean, you might ask? Well, it means, what can I change about my methods and techniques to make it more likely that the development that takes place in my organization...

I'm speaking as part of a panel on secure development practices for Red Hat Developer Exchange and the Red Hat Summit. I work on the Red Hat Product Security Team, a group whose purpose is to help Red Hat develop products as securely as possible. Quite often when people talk about software security it's an afterthought. You write your software, then you worry about security later. This can work sometimes, but it's also really expensive. Once you have a functioning...

As I stare at this blank screen to start writing my first blog entry I have that same feeling that so many developers have when starting with an unfamiliar programming language or application. The developers in our group realize that it is not easy starting from nothing and we strive to make it easier to productively use SystemTap to investigate performance problems. A starting point for anyone's first use of SystemTap is the SystemTap Beginners Guide on the Red Hat...

Are you missing out on opportunities to increase your applications' performance? As an application developer building on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you invest a lot of time and effort into making your applications compelling and useful for your users. You probably also want to see good performance. But beyond good design, careful algorithm selection and compiler optimizations, what can a developer use to boost their application performance? 1. The latest GCC release and associated tools The very first thing a...

Wouldn't it be nice if your software development team could use one common set of development tools based on the latest, stable upstream versions for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux development? Think of all the extra years of open source innovation - the features, optimizations and new standards support it would allow your team to build into your products. That would be great, wouldn't it? Fortunately, this is already available to you today, and in this blog post I'll explain...

I’m writing this first entry at about 30,000 feet on my way back from Red Hat’s North American Partner Conference in San Diego, California. It’s rather appropriate to be typing this out at that altitude, as that is the way I felt for the entire conference after having the opportunity to meet with some amazing ISV, Systems Integrator, VAR and Solution Builder partners who have been building some incredibly powerful solutions using Red Hat technologies. The consistent theme across all...