Join us on September 24th at the Opscode mothership for our very first Hack Day in Seattle! Meet with the Opscode team & other members of our community, hack on Chef & your own infrastructure projects, eat good food, drink beer, attempt to beat the Opscode team at Foosball.

Join Opscode’s Director of Training and Services, Joshua Timberman, at Opscode HQ for a two-day comprehensive class covering the architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. This includes: Creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced tips & tricks with the of the Knife command line utility.

I wanted smartmontools installed to monitor the disk health of my LAN server at home. This is not an uncommon thing to want to do, so I thought I’d write and share a Chef cookbook for it.

Join our friends at Splunk next Thursday September 8th at 9am PT for a very exciting customer-led webinar courtesy of a large online electronics retailer. The webinar features a wonderful combination of Amazon Web Services, Splunk and Chef all working together to scale out a large production environment in an agile and consistent fashion.

TR35 Honorees to be Recognized at Technology Review’s Emtech MIT 2011 Conference in October SEATTLE, Wash – August 23rd, 2011- Opscode, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Jesse Robbins, Opscode co-founder and chief community officer, has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as a TR35 Honoree for 2011.

Announcing the first official Chef cookbook contest! There are a ton of great cookbooks on the Opscode Community Site, but we know there are more out there in various states of completion.

I’m excited to announce Opscode and Chef will be coming to Charlotte, NC on September 14th. Seth Chisamore, Opscode engineer, will be giving an introduction to Chef and demonstrate how to use Chef in a cloud environment at the September meeting of DevOps CLT.

I am pleased to announce that Opscode’s Chef Fundamentals open training materials have been updated to a new version. If you signed up for Open Training in the last month or so, you should have received a link to the updated materials.

Our friends on the Cloud Foundry PaaS team at VMware just announced that Cloud Foundry now works across multiple cloud providers and is fully deployed and configured with Chef!