Sun has launched a new promotion for the month of September where the first 20 Sun Startup Essentials members who refer 3 new approved U.S. members by September 30th will receive one year of free hosting on a shiny Joyent ‘L’ Accelerator!
Here’s how it works:
1. Refer
Submit the names of the companies you’re referring here your [...]
When I read Sun Microsystems was changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, I was dumbfounded. At first glance it seemed like a monumentally silly gesture. However, I now see it as an important market signal. And this is big. I don’t often run across burning bushes in the desert, but this ticker symbol [...]
Read More»Bryan wrote about a presentation he gave at Google (video) where he demo’ed DTrace in Python. While we did the dtrace probes for Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6, I thought I’d show you how to do it on our Accelerators as well.
John Levon at Sun has written about the DTrace probes that he put into Python [...]
Ben, Jason and David discuss camping, CampCamp, when to quit smoking, Ben’s workout routine, Xen/VMWare, Niagara 2, building a mainframe, Skype outage.
ps pipe grep.
I’m serving the podcast from my BingoDisk disk.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.
Note: feeds may take some time to update. If you want to listen immediately, grab [...]
No, that’s not what they’re really called. Yes, they are awesome though.
Connector has long had a feature called Notifications, which are a super-handy way to notify someone on your team of an event, a link, a document, or whatever. It’s kind of like ‘starring’ something for someone else to check out.
I’m a geek so I [...]
In the media blitz leading up to the release of “Graduate”, Kanye West has been out talking to, well, the media. I saw this AP interview where Mr. West made the following claim:
My biggest inspiration and biggest competition is Justin Timberlake[.] He’s the only other person that gets an across-the-board response and respect level — black [...]
Read More»BERLIN, GERMANY (September 17th)
Several of Joyeurs are headed to Berlin for RailsConf Europe so we figured it was a perfect excuse to check out the beer making skills of the folks over at Lindenbräu” at the Potsdamer Platz.
We plan on setting up a few chairs at 7pm and will start buying pints immediately and our [...]
I had largely ignored the Amazon S3 pricing hike or decrease (depending on who you are) which included the addition of a per request charge. It really popped up again when I was recently talking to a new accelerator (just a few) + CDN customer recently.
They have about 9 million images taking up ~200 GB [...]
The latest issue is now available online and covers such spicy topics such as the open sourcing of Connector, Shared Hosting and changes/addition to our Support services.
Oooooh. Ahhhhh.
Bell was also nice to me and created a RSS feed.
Our plan is to send these little nuggets out about six times a year, with [...]
If you are around Palo Alto, CA this weekend, plan to swing by the Social Text offices to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of BarCamp in a weekend long party full of demos, presentations, and lots and lots of opportunities to geek out.
I think a few of us from Joyent will be there and I [...]
