-- Starting Minishift VM ..... FAIL E0321 11:29:07.578030  

21298 start.go:494] Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error with pre-create check: "Error detecting VBox version: exit status 126". Retrying.  
Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error with pre-create check: "Error detecting VBox version: exit status 126"  

I got the above error while firing up Minishift to run through Rafaele Benevides Istio Tutorial for Red Hat Developers, which you can find here:  https://github.com/redhat-developer-demos/istio-tutorial

The error is related to an incomplete uninstall of Virtual Box.  The solution is simple: download Virtual Box and run the Uninstall Tool.

#JavaOne2015

#JavaOne2015

My fifth JavaOne started today.  I attended a Java University class.  It was interesting to be on the other side of that sort of presentation.

Red Hat is well represented this year.  There is a microsite on Red Hat Developer.

Stop by the Red Hat booth in the vendor hall if you are attending.  We have presentations all day long, and there is a rumor about trucker hats...

The agenda at our booth this week:

Monday, October 26th

10:15 - 11:00 

Standardized Extension-Building in Java EE with CDI and JCA

- Jason Porter

11:45 - 12:30

Taming Microservices Testing with Arquillian Cube

- Aslak Knutsen, Alex Soto & Bartosz Majsak

1:45 - 2:30

Docker for Java EE Developers

- Rafael Benevides & Markus Eisele

3:30 -  4:15

Shenandoah: An Ultralow-Pause-Time Garbage Collector for OpenJDK

- Christine H. Flood

Architecting Solutions

Yesterday was my one year anniversary with Red Hat specifically with the JBoss the middleware division.  I am a Middleware Solutions Architect or "SA."

I haven't blogged much since joining Red Hat.  The drop in output is partially due to time constraints.  In the past year I have been in
Atlanta, Boston, Canton, GA, Franklin, TN, Ft. Lauderdale, Knoxville, Memphis, Miami, Mt. View, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, San Francisco, Tampa, and Washington D.C. 

Another reason for the reduced output is that I had not written my disclaimer post either.  This is the disclaimer post.

I have largely avoided opinionated posts focusing instead on solutions to real problems.  However, I don't get my hands dirty in code on a daily basis any more.  I still plan to focus on real solutions, but I might add some opinion, observations and predictions.  So be forewarned, the opinions that you read here belong to a Red Hat employee.

Red Hat is a great place to work, btw.