It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of the HQ family, HQ 4.1.1! This is the first maintenance release in the HQ 4.1 series.
You can get 4.1.1 here. Enjoy!
And as always, thanks to the many users, customers, and engineers that contributed to this release.

Recently we were reading up on our favorite hobby, ogling at WebOps Visualization (so what? we’re geeks), and we came across this post by Jesse Robbins from the O’Reilly Radar that got us thinking about the enormous amounts of data and visualization going on in our very own HQ user base. Some of the most [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it!
To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout the [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.2 is the first maintenance release in the 4.0 series (for those keeping score at home, 4.0.1 was our GA release), and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.1. Go get it!
To [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0!
Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands of [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 3.2 family. HQ 3.2.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 3.2 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 3.2.4. Go get it!
To find out what goodness 3.2.5 brings (and there’s a lot of [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty.
OSCON — Portland — 7/23 - 7/24
The following happened between 6:00p - 8:00p (7/23)

It was a long day. I traveled for [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness.
So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

 

 Real Men of Geekness. [2:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (303)

If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly.
Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities [...]

Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations:

runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power
powerful mesh networking capabilities
dual mode display (works in direct sunlight)
open source Flash player
addictive/intuitive UI (easy [...]