Monthly Archives: June 2007

And the Joyent diet contest winner is…

June 28, 2007 – 6:08 pm

…David Paul Young. That boy lost 13% of his body weight, only narrowly beating out Pete who lost 12%. It seems Jason, Shane and I never had a chance – though I would like to note, for the record, that I am down 6% which is not too shabby, especially as I have not seen [...]

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No comment. No comment.

June 25, 2007 – 11:47 pm

click for larger version Despite the fact that at least one blog at Sun is now sporting the Joyeur design (hint: chocobrown is hard not to miss), we have no comment. No comment. Pereunt et imputantur.

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Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for "normal" web applications

June 20, 2007 – 12:35 am

In a previous article, On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent, I made a few premises: The autoprovisioning and account management (and therefore the accessibility) is the improvement over a service like Sun’s Grid There’s no way that Amazon.com is literally coming off of S3 and EC2 (one datacenter and no CDN abilities? I [...]

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Jason Hoffman interviewed by SYS-CON TV

June 18, 2007 – 1:46 am

Roger Strukhoff and crew were hanging out at JavaOne and caught up with our own Jason Hoffman for a little update on Joyent, our upcoming product releases and then asks the million dollar question…Why Joyent? It is a good overview of the company, so if you were ever wondering what we were really about…you might [...]

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OpenSolaris Community Picnic This Weekend

June 15, 2007 – 11:27 pm

This weekend all Joyent customers are invited to the first annual OpenSolaris Community Picnic. This is a family event for the entire community of developers, admins, users, and most importantly our families. Joyent has graciously provided the event with BBQ (authentic Arkansas BBQ, smoked for 16+ hours, amazing stuff) and I’m hoping to see lots [...]

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Introduction to the OpenSolaris Operating System

June 14, 2007 – 8:10 am

Ben did a nifty little presentation at CommunityOne recently, and while I don’t personally understand 1/2 of the techno babble in it, I am told most of you will find this rather useful. Think Solaris = Slow-aris? Think again. Ben is here to tell you otherwise. And I would like to personally thank Linus Torvalds [...]

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The Annual or Whatever WWDC-related Joyent Midnight Cheesestick and Beer Run

June 12, 2007 – 10:50 pm

Whenever Gruber is out for WWDC, we’ve ended up eating fried cheese and drinking beer. Then he finds himself recommending it to others. I then find myself taking others out for fried cheese and beer. This is Allan Odgaard of Textmate. You’ll notice he’s downright giddy. This is Sebastian. Sebastian has never eaten fried cheese. [...]

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Getting Started with JRuby

June 7, 2007 – 11:22 pm

JRuby is something we’re very excited about as it bridges the gap between the Java and Ruby worlds, bringing a wide range of new advantages to developers. You can take advantage of the mature JDBC, utilize Java Application Servers such as Glassfish for deployment with simple WAR’s rather than Capistrano, or use existing JavaBeans and [...]

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Connector sbarca in Italia

June 6, 2007 – 5:37 pm

Sapevi che Connector è ora disponibile in inglese, spagnolo, tedesco e italiano? Cosa? Italiano? Sì gente. Italiano. Dato che l’italiano è una delle lingue più belle al mondo e dato che Connector è una delle applicazioni migliori al mondo, abbiamo pensato al matrimonio perfetto. Così abbiamo chiesto al nostro amico Federico Caiazzo di aiutarci a [...]

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I used to think Guy Kawasaki was smart

June 5, 2007 – 2:37 pm

Based on some stuff he’s written. But huh? Guess not. As an entrepeneur, he doesn’t get it. As an investor, I’m not convinced he gets it. I actually don’t base any investments on how much it would cost to build a pile. Beyond one’s faith that the people doing it can do it, it’s about [...]

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