Mind the Gap

In the  previous post , I mentioned a use case for the Virgo buildpack of running Virgo as an Ubuntu Juju charm. With some advice from the ...

I'm no longer leading the Virgo project, but I am still fond of Virgo, so I thought I would update the Virgo buildpack (previously ment...

We are using Code Climate to check the quality of the Ruby code in our Cloud Foundry Java buildpack . It's an excellent tool, but some ...

The recent Virgo community survey showed quite a bit of interest in running Virgo in the cloud. With CloudFoundry's forthcoming "bu...

Thanks to the ninety-seven people who filled in the Virgo survey. The survey is now closed and the results are in. I'll summarise the re...

Neil Bartlett's blog of this title is shocking because it shows how slow to adopt proven technology the computing industry is. David ...

The recording  of Dan North's recent talk on "Embracing Uncertainty" set me thinking again about what I like and dislike about...

I kept seeing the following pop-up during Java based builds on Mac OS X: There was no obvious cause, but this was annoying as it paused...

IBM, Paremus, Rebaze, Red Hat, and VMware/SpringSource, with interested parties Peter Kriens and SAP, have submitted an Eclipse Bundle Recip...

It's a couple of years since we ran the first Virgo survey and the project has moved on a lot since then. So we've just published a ...

Virgo 3.6.0 is available for download . Although the release includes many small enhancements and bug fixes, some major new features are wor...

Congratulations to SAP on delivering  Netweaver Cloud ! The SAP committers have been a great asset to the Virgo team and it's good to se...

Following on from the nice write-up about the use of Virgo by Croatian Telecom , I'd like to encourage others who have not already done ...

Apart from all those v's, what do VMware vSphere and Virgo have in common? Well you won't be surprised to learn that VMware, as well...

Virgo 3.6.0.M01 is released and features upgrades to Tomcat (bringing with it web sockets support), Spring, Gemini Web, and Gemini Managemen...

A colleague mentioned the Twelve-Factor App site which gives some design guidelines for building web apps. The Dependencies guideline has ...

Virgo 3.5.0.RELEASE is available for download . Although the deliverables are mostly backward compatible with Virgo 3.0.x, we decided to i...

OSGi enables Java code to be divided cleanly into modules known as  bundles  with access to code and resources controlled by a class load...