Monthly Archives: August 2007

Open Sourced Connector: A $5 million gift?

August 9, 2007 – 6:36 pm

Linda D. recently pointed out to me that the connector is currently in Ohloh as a project. There’s some stats that are interesting: 7 contributors, 214,377 LOC (with a significant portion in the “view logic”), 55 man years An estimate to write this project from scratch of $5,545,809 What it doesn’t show is that the [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (16)

ps pipe grep: Episode 18 (Trial and Error)

August 8, 2007 – 11:22 pm

Ben, Jason and David discuss source code control systems and much more as they come back from a long hiatus. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: Royksopp.

By grassonthefield | Posted in Podcast | Comments (2)

If you're a startup in China or India…

August 8, 2007 – 9:44 pm

Joyent Accelerators are now available under the Sun Startup Essentials program to startup companies in China (PRC) and India. We’re very happy to be working with Sun in these two markets that represent some of the outstanding growth in the startup world today. Sun Startup Essentials and Joyent Accelerators allow startups to design, develop and [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (5)

Upcoming Slingshot Roadmap

August 2, 2007 – 1:55 am

If you hadn’t heard, I’ll be presenting Slingshot at Railsconf Europe in Berlin this September. For the presentation I would like to have product to show and answers to all the questions posed at the last presentation at Railsconf US – so I’m stepping up Slingshot development between now and mid-September. I want to periodically [...]

By jason | Posted in Open Source, Slingshot | Comments (25)

Information Week discovers the Joyent 'Platform'

August 1, 2007 – 4:17 pm

Richard Martin from InformationWeek stopped by the office the other day and had a little chat with Dave and Jason about Joyent and our mission to build a platform for a new era of business computing. What came of that chat was this nice little article where Dave nails the mission of Joyent in two [...]

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Taco Tuesday Reminder

August 1, 2007 – 1:00 am

Taco Tuesday is tonight and I wanted to point out a critical thing that many people seem to overlook. We pay for the tacos and the drinks. That means that for you, they are free. Free Tacos. Free Beer. Just like the Connector EDIT – PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS DATED AUGUST 1ST, BUT TACO [...]

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"Is language X scalable? I heard that it isn't"

August 1, 2007 – 12:53 am

A nonsensical question that is rarely qualified. To quote Theo from his fine book Languages aren’t slow; implementations of languages are. and Language selection and scalability have little to do with each other; architectural design and implementation strategy dictate how scalable a final product will be. I couldn’t have put it better myself. The point [...]

By jason | Posted in Industry | Comments (1)
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