Monthly Archives: May 2008

Joyent Presents Application Hosting Options at Upcoming Social Media Business Schools

May 29, 2008 – 8:26 pm

SocialMedia Networks is hosting several one day conferences, focusing on passing on real information about what’s going on with social platforms for advertisers and developers. The next one will be held in Los Angeles on June 5th and will feature deep talks on analytics, marketing, brand advertising, performance advertising, and business planning. The conference will [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

SysAdmin Job at Free Software Foundation

May 29, 2008 – 7:12 pm

Our friends at the Free Software Foundation are looking to hire a systems administrator and Python developer. If you’re a GNU/Linux systems administrator keen to work for the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom, take a look at the job. More information can be found here.

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements, Industry | Leave a Comment

Things I'll Need in iPhone 2.0. Or, the iPhone Review That's Nearly One Year Old

May 29, 2008 – 4:42 pm

I stood in line at an AT&T store last summer the day the iPhone first became publicly available. I thought the local Apple store would be mobbed. Four hours later the AT&T store was out of phones. With not much hope, I drove to the Apple store. Within 15 minutes I was inside buying two [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry, Recipes | Comments (8)

Joyent Official Sponsor of the Django Dash Competiton

May 28, 2008 – 10:22 pm

Django Dash is a chance for Django enthusiasts to flex their coding skills a little and produce a killer application within 48 hours. Of course, they want you to have a little fun in the process. We here at Joyent loves ‘the Django’, and are happy to support the competition that officially kicks off this [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Joyent Pint Night (at RailsConf2008)

May 27, 2008 – 5:12 pm

We are hosting a pub night on Thursday (5/29) at the Lucky Lab. Come on by anytime between 6pm-8pm if you need to wet your whistle. And if you sweet talk David or Jason, they might just do it again on Friday. And Saturday.

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

May 19, 2008 – 10:01 pm

Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA): May 27, 2008 – CANCELLED. Sorry, look for us in June. Tacos. Beer. Good conversation. Need we say more? ——— Google I/O (San Francisco, CA): May 28-29, 2008 Keep an eye out for Jason Hoffman, Blake Burris, Rod Boothby and Kristie Wells. UPDATE: Jason Hoffman will be speaking on the [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (14)

Amazon Web Services or Joyent Accelerators: Reprise

May 15, 2008 – 4:18 pm

In the Fall of 2006, I wrote a piece On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent, and followed up with Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for ‘normal’ web applications and the recognition that When you’re really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN. The point of these previous articles was [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (9)

Google Friend Connect Site on Joyent Accelerators

May 13, 2008 – 5:39 pm

Want to play around with a site already using Google’s Friend Connect? Head over to BibleApps running on Joyent Accelerators. The “Sign In” infrastructure is part of the gadgets available from Google Friend Connect. God bless them.

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements, Industry | Comments (1)

Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.

May 8, 2008 – 7:01 pm

What is cloud computing? We recently asked a number of people in our industry, and got back a range of interesting, and sometimes self-referential, responses. You can see them here. According to our respondents, cloud computing means anything from a single-tenant, multi-user application cloud (also known as software-as-a-service or “Saas”) to multi-tenant, general purpose, on-demand [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (11)

Triathlon Experience with Fellow Joyeurs

May 7, 2008 – 11:54 pm

This past Sunday four of us from Joyent (and one wife) participated in a sprint distance triathlon (half mile swim, 15 mile bike, 4 mile run) at Lake Berryessa east of Napa valley. We all finished. We all had a great experience. Some of the experiences included getting into the cold lake water at 8 [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 49 other followers