Archive of 'May, 2007'

Accelerator VC200 Promotion Officially Over

Ok, that’s it. We are done. Finished. hecho. 做. gedaan. fait. getan. fatto. される. сделано. hết.
#200 went out the door this morning, so it’s a wrap here.
A big ‘thank you’ to everyone who participated in the promotion. We simply can’t wait to see what you do with your Accelerators, and look [...]

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Der Connector Spricht Deutsch

Wir bei Joyent sind immer wieder für eine Überraschung gut. Deshalb gibt es heute unseren ersten deutschsprachigen Blogbeitrag, mit dem wir die sofortige Verfügbarkteit einer deutschsprachigen Version des Joyent Connector bekanntgeben. Und das nur kurz nach unserer Veröffentlichung von Joyent Lists und der Ankündigung, dass der Connector in naher Zukunft zu einem Open Source Projekt [...]

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Speedo Tip Of The Week

Tip: If you want washboard abs and glutes you can bounce a quarter off of, you might consider working somewhere other than Joyent.
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Of course, another route to bulging biceps and calves the size of baseballs is to simply put the Manhattan down and order a chef salad in lieu of the [...]

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geekSessions and Taco Thursday

I’ll be talking at Geeksessions here in San Francisco tomorrow (Tuesday, May 22nd, at 6pm) and it’s on Rails scability. My dear friend Bryan says that we’ll be doing a post-panel entitled Jason Hoffman and Bryan Cantrill: Will the Real Doogie Howser Please Stand Up.
This also means that this week’s Joyent Taco Tuesdays will in [...]

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GoreRig(tm)

I got back from Railsconf yesterday and at some point picked up the latest Time magazine. It has Al Gore on the cover. There’s a picture of Mr. Gore working in his office. Did you notice the rig he’s working on? The GoreRig™. What struck me was the number of displays turned on. And the [...]

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ps pipe grep: Episode 16 (Conference)

Ben, Jason and David discuss JavaOne, Rails on Netbeans 6, Jason’s scale talk at Railsconf (time, people, power, bandwidth), DTrace.
ps pipe grep.
I’m serving the podcast from my Bingo disk.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.
This week’s music: couple more tracks from the Van Hunt album On the Jungle Floor.

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Slides for my RailsConf talk: “Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up”

Thank you all 200-300ish people that showed up for my talk this morning.
Here’s the slides.

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Joyent Connector to be Open Sourced

I am pleased to announce Joyent will be open sourcing our Connector team collaboration suite under the GPL v2. We hope to have the code and a community platform ready for public consumption by the end of June, 2007. Luke Crawford, of Joyent, will be the Project Director and Joyent’s other developers will continue to [...]

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Celebrating TextDrive’s Three Years

The Original VC200
In May, 2004, Dean and Jason raised the initial money for TextDrive by offering people an opportunity to buy a lifetime hosting account for $200. Only 200 accounts were available.
The New VC200: Lifetime Joyent Accelerators
To celebrate the third anniversary of the original “VC200”, and to usher in a new era of on-demand infrastructure [...]

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Joyent at RailsConf 2007

The Joyent team will be in Portland Wednesday, May 16th through Sunday, May 20th for RailsConf and we have planned a few social activities to break up all this silly tech stuff:
Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm
Geek Dinner at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub at
915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. In true geek dinner [...]

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