Developer Ramblings

Before we get into this post, I first want to state I fully understand that both Visual Studio 2010 and the ASP.NET MVC out of band installer are beta products, so this issue may be fixed, but i wanted to put it out there to see if anyone else has encountered a similar problem. This is an open ended post as I am searching for answers on this issue, but will continue to research this as I have time. If you have any suggestions or a fix drop me a line and we can chat. The Problem: When creating a... [Read More]

As developers, we are always looking for platforms to build upon right? Did you know that Citrix can be viewed as a developer platform? I think many enterprises still view Citrix as the infrastructure company (Although, that view has been gradually changing over the last few years) that they have come to love. I believe those enterprise and the enterprise developers in them need to start looking at Citrix as a developer platform and realize that they can start building better experiences for the end users, weather it be IT Admins or the traditional end users. Citrix can be viewed... [Read More]

If your running XenServer, you have learned to love the command line interface right? :). Well, Citrix has made available a virtual appliance for XenServer call XenCenterWeb. This ia a preconfigured virtual appliance, that enables you to do some virtual machine management from within a browser. The site itself is written in PHP, so all the code is available on the VM/Appliance. You can get the Virtual Application from this link. I have also put together a quick screencast on setting up and configuring XenCenterWeb. Check it out below. This div will be replaced [Read More]

As I recently have rebuilt my laptop to run Windows 7 RC, I decided to download and install the XenServer Powershell extensions (available here) to start evaluating them. I was going to start writing my own extension but then stumbled across the ones that Citrix has developed and figured instead of writing my own, I would post some videos pertaining to the Citrix distributed ones. As a side not, Citrix has also released the source code to the PowerShell extensions. A very cool move in my humble opinion. I believe more companies should contribute to the open source community, and... [Read More]