Monthly Archives: July 2007

JRuby Hack Day: August 8, 2007

July 26, 2007 – 6:43 pm

Joyent and Sun are proud to present the first in a series of Hack Days, where you will get a chance to hear about the latest technologies and learn how to use them in an interactive unconference styled event. The first Hack Day launches on August 8th at the Axis Cafe in San Francisco, CA [...]

By jason | Posted in Events | Comments (5)

Project Indiana (OpenSolaris) Session at OSCON 2007

July 25, 2007 – 8:56 pm

If you want to know what is going on with OpenSolaris and you happen to be in Portland at the OSCON conference, get yourself to the Project Indiana session taking place on Thursday, July 26th at 2pm in Room D132. On hand will be Sun’s OpenSolaris gurus and our own Ben Rockwood, so this is [...]

By jason | Posted in Events, Open Source | Leave a Comment

The benefits of IMAP and open: iPhone and Joyent Mail

July 21, 2007 – 6:18 pm

Among the benefits of using open source (Joyent Mail) and open protocols (IMAP) is being able to use IMAP clients such as Outlook, Vista Mail, Thunderbird, Mail.app. Why is IMAP great? Simply, it allows me to use email on different devices (a laptop, a desktop, a mobile device, a web client) while keeping all the [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in General, Infrastructure | Comments (8)

Upcoming Events: Tacos, Tech and a bit of Beer

July 20, 2007 – 6:24 am

We’ve got a few events coming up over the next two months, so check your calendars and plan to join us for some (or all) if you can: Taco Tuesday Monday, July 23rd (6:30pm PST) at Nick’s Crispy Taco, San Francisco, CA This is a special meet up (because you can never have too many [...]

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Ruby / Rails community building in action

July 18, 2007 – 11:26 pm

One of the nice things about living in a city like Vancouver is that there’s enough geek population to support user groups, even for rather “niche” languages like Ruby or Python. I’ve always been interested in community development (opensource and otherwise) and in particular what happens when communities are “tested”. That’s happening right now in [...]

By markjoyent | Posted in Open Source | Comments (2)

Joyent Connector: Free + Open

July 17, 2007 – 10:40 pm

Last Friday, Joyent made Connector free + open. Free in that anyone can sign up for a complimentary 2 User/ 2 GB plan and Open in that anyone can view the source, download it via svn, and contribute. Continue reading to learn a little more about what Free + Open Connector means for users, developers, [...]

By jason | Posted in Open Source | Leave a Comment

Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application?

July 16, 2007 – 12:41 pm

The one you feel comfortable configuring, maintaining and perhaps extending. That one. As web server/reverse proxy schizoserverphrenia tends to sweep through the Rails community from time to time, I see questions of which is “best” so I thought I’d add some numbers here. These are from April-ish 2006, and were in various places on weblog.textdrive.com [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (7)

Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free

July 13, 2007 – 10:44 pm

Today Joyent is releasing the source code for our Connector and Slingshot products under the GPL v2. You can get immediate access to the code through our developer portal here. SVN is here. No longer will those of us committed to open source need to use products from companies that do not open their source. [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (29)

Connector has ICS support? What the heck is ICS?

July 10, 2007 – 1:00 am

The Connector is a powerful collaboration environment that supports many technologies. This wealth of supported technologies makes for a flexible environment, but the density, and sometimes relative obscurity of some of the supported technologies makes it difficult to convey their purpose to new users. ICS is one of those technologies. What is ICS, and why [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (5)
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