Monthly Archives: February 2008

DTrace (un)conference in San Francisco: March 14th

February 29, 2008 – 8:48 pm

The fine folks over at Sun are putting on a little (un)conference and invite you to join them to share what you’re doing with DTrace: tricks you’ve used, wins you’ve had, limitations you’ve run into, where you’d like to see DTrace go in the future, etc. Jason Hoffman, Ben Rockwood and several other folks from [...]

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Quad Core (Episode 3)

February 26, 2008 – 10:08 pm

This week we talk about the Macbook Air (again) and data portability for client-side data, Project Indiana, and some events we’re attending including the BILConference, 16-bit party at SXSW Interactive (Joyent is co-hosting), and the Free Software Foundation and Joyent’s patronage of it. Podcast feed iTunes link (thanks to J.D. Justice for providing this to [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Quad-Core | Comments (3)

Podcasting Live Today (11:30am PST)

February 26, 2008 – 7:09 pm

If you have questions you would like us to try and answer live, please post them here in the comments section.

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Jason's interviewed in ACM Queue

February 22, 2008 – 6:21 pm

I’m in the January/February 2008 edition of ACM queue. It’s a conversation between Bryan Cantrill and myself about a number of things including virtualization, Facebook applications, Ruby on Rails and what data store backends should look like by the time we hit the year 2037. The PDF of the print copy is here. Thank you [...]

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Fermions, Bosons and the 6 Utilities

February 22, 2008 – 6:04 pm

When I used to teach university chemistry, I’d always start with the statement: The universe (at one level) is made of two things and two things only: fermions and bosons. Fermions are the things that have “stuff”: they have mass and can be charged (or not). Bosons are the things that have no “stuff”: they [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (2)

Go B.I.G. now: Spring Sale on Accelerators

February 22, 2008 – 4:08 pm

We announced this special by email to all Joyent customers. So if you’re still teetering over your choice, let this be your sign We’ve heard your requests loud and clear and have opened up the same great savings to you that initially launched only for Facebook developers. Act now and get: Two years for the [...]

By jason | Posted in Facebook, Special Offers | Comments (1)

50 New Accelerators in One Go

February 21, 2008 – 11:58 pm

I’m hanging out at the BuildingWebApps RailsQuickStart Seminar class in San Francisco. Christopher Haupt just lead the class through the process of logging into their Joyent Accelerators for the first time. This is the first time I have seen so many people log into new Accelerators simultaneously. Since we launched the Free Joyent Facebook Accelerators [...]

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20%-50% off Joyent Accelerator Upgrades (for Facebook Developers)

February 15, 2008 – 4:37 am

If you have an existing free Facebook Accelerator account, you should have received this promotion via email today. For the rest of you, we’ve got a great deal to offer. Today, over 14% of application usage at Facebook comes from applications that run on Joyent Accelerators, and it is great to watch the successes many [...]

By jason | Posted in Facebook, Special Offers | Comments (4)

Joyent and Mentez Announce Partnership for Facebook and OpenSocial Developers

February 12, 2008 – 4:51 pm

Joyent and Mentez are providing free on-demand infrastructure for 1000 Social Networking Applications in South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia Initial platforms supported will be Facebook and OpenSocial Developers sponsored by Mentez will have access to free business planning, internet-scale consulting services and Joyent’s unique on-demand infrastructure. Developers are given complimentary access to Joyent [...]

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16bit SxSW Interactive Party

February 11, 2008 – 8:34 pm

We couldn’t be happier to be one of the sponsors of this shin dig and hope you plan to join us for a pint or two while enjoying performances by 999 Eyes, DJ Invidkllr and DJ V.I.N.cent. We also want to give a big shout out to Joshua Ellingson for his mad design skills in [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)
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