In the first part of this series I made a key list of some of the underlying ideas at Joyent, that we believe that a company or even a small development team should be able to:
Participate in a multi-tenant service
Have your own instantiations of this service
Install (and “buy”) the software to run on your own [...]
We’re pleased that the Facebook Haggadah is running on a free Joyent Accelerator as part of our program for social network developers. The Haggadah is the telling of the events of Passover and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt as described in the book of Exodus of the Torah. The Haggadah itself is a [...]
Read More»On Saturday and Sunday I’m going to be at the FSF Meeting in Cambridge MA where I’m going to talk about The Free and Open Cloud.
Of course I’m not talking about Free-as-in-Beer here, but instead software freedom, and how the cloud is a new battleground for Free and Open Source software — something that [...]
The “Answer Questions about Jason” contest was a success and all the contest winner received a free entry-level Joyent Accelerator. Congratulations. I was proud to give away Accelerators to celebrate the launch of JSBin on Joyent.
Keeping with the free theme, we will be expanding the number of free slots we have open for developers of [...]
With this post, I’m starting a series where we’re going to be much more explicit about what we’re thinking, what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and where we’re going. I’m not interested in any of it being thought of as impersonal “marketing material”, so I hope you’ll allow the occasional use of [...]
Read More»Joyent has been working with the folks at Aptana for some time and we’re excited to mention that Aptana is now offering free trials of Aptana Cloud built on top of Joyent Accelerators.
Aptana Cloud is an excellent service that makes development, deployment and scaling of PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails applications as automagic as [...]
We have been asked a number of times whether Joyent is going to the South-by-Southwest Interactive (aka SXSW) festival this year. The answer is “no”. All Joyent employees are, in fact, banned from SXSW for the following lucky seven reasons:
1) Drinking. There is lots and lots of drinking of alcoholic beverages. I think this is [...]
JS Bin is a very useful utility offering collaborative JavaScript debugging. From the About section:
JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code – new tabs doesn’t). Once you’re happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review or [...]
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