Category Archives: Joyeurs

Joyent’s President of Greater China a Media Darling in Taiwan

If you didn’t know, Joyent is big in Taiwan — so big that our own President of Greater China Howard Wu has appeared on popular local news host Sisy Chen’s show not once but twice to discuss the technology industry and entrepreneurialism. In the most recent feature, our Chief Technology Officer Mark Mayo also makes [...]

The Joyent Cup Floweth Over!

JET, the Joyent Endurance Team, was out in force these last two weekends.  We had 9 participants, 1 volunteer, and 5 fans at Tiburon Triathlon; 3 runners participating in the San Francisco Marathon & Half Marathon and six riders cycling the Marin Century. Congratulations go out to: San Francisco Half Marathon: Aaron Slettehaugh, Michael Lochhead [...]

Endurance Season Continues with Personal Bests and a Podium Finish

The 2011 Triathlon season is in full swing, and so is JET — the Joyent Endurance Team. In June, Vice President of Product Laurel Reitman made a triumphant return to multisport by completing the Tri for Fun. The sprint distance event is great intro into the sport for those of you whom have never tried [...]

Join Team Joyent at the Tiburon Triathlon

The Tiburon Triathlon on Sunday, July 31st is in its twentieth year, and the minimal distances and maximum focus on having fun makes it a great event for folks who are new to the sport. The swim is only up to half a mile in a sheltered harbor — and you can turn around any [...]

JSConf and NodeConf: Javascript Days and Cocktail Nights in the City of Roses

By Tom Hughes-Croucher Now that we’ve had some time to decompress from our week in Portland, we thought it might be fun to highlight some of the stuff from JSConf and NodeConf for those of you that weren’t able to make it this time. Even though NodeConf was only 2 days after JSConf there was [...]

Endurance Team Season Starts with Finishes

Over the weekend, seven members of Team Joyent kicked off the endurance season with races. Most of the team was down at Lake San Antonio for the 2011 Avia Wildflower Triathlon put on by Tri-California. Three took on the Long Course — 1.2 mile swim, 56 miles of cycling and a 13.1 mile run — [...]

Events: Office Hours and Node.js for Gaming

A special reminder today that the Node.js office hours will be ending a little earlier than usual so that folks can swing by IGN Headquarters for “Node.js for Gaming (and Gaming Companies).” Tom Hughes-Croucher will be racing from the airport to speak on multi-tiered architectures; if your looking for tips on victory at the next [...]

Node.js Job Board: Get Paid to Code in Node

If you’re a Node.js developer looking for cool projects to work on that also happen to pay the rent, check out the new jobs board at jobs.nodejs.org. Voxer, Yammer, adservice and TWAR are all offering opportunities ranging from innovative mobile communications to game development work. On the other hand, if you’re looking for developers with [...]

Preview “Up and Running with Node.js”

Tom Hughes-Croucher, who recently joined the Joyeur clan, has been working on a new book for O’Reilly titled “Up and Running with Node.js.” We were rooting for a honey badger on the cover, but the preview now available online overcame any disappointment on our part. Tom promises to update the volume regularly as he makes [...]

How To: Create Your Own Node.js Module

Always there to help, npm author Isaac Schlueter has taken the time to put together a brief yet thorough primer on how to get started coding up a module for Node.js. His instructions include everything you need to get started writing something that will work his his package manager, tapping into the Node.js coding community [...]

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