Everett Toews

I’m proud to help announce and to be a part of the Rackspace Developer Relations Group as a Developer Advocate. The group has been around for a little while now and I only joined them a few of months ago but we’ve had our heads down building Software Development Kits (SDKs). Well now we’ve got a killer Java SDK and PHP SDK for the Rackspace open cloud ready to go and we’d like to let the world know. We’ve been introduced on the official Rackspace blog but I wanted to throw my 2 cents in here too.

SDKs are a vital resource for any ecosystem and SDKs for OpenStack are proliferating. The OpenStack Grizzly Summit has a few sessions dedicated to SDKs that I wanted to highlight.

Update: Folsom instructions

Two open source projects that I’m proud to be a part of have just had major releases within days of each other.

I’m attending the OpenStack Summit from Oct. 15-18 in San Diego. I’ve submitted a session titled Control the Clouds: Developer Experience with jclouds. Sessions are voted in so, if you’re inclined, please vote for my session. You’ll need to do a Find in Page for “jclouds” on the voting page. The deadline for voting is Sept. 13 and here’s a description of the session.

Update: This post is out of date. Use the Apache jclouds OpenStack Quick Start Guide instead.