August 25, 2010 – 6:12 pm
The Grand Champion of noodles-in-a-bowl at Joyent Engineering HQ: Now you know what’s keeping us going as we prep some cool stuff for Node Knockout!
January 17, 2009 – 12:28 am
Time was you did systems and networking work, you had The Library. Programming Perl , sendmail , DNS and Bind , TCP/IP Illustrated , UNIX System Administration Handbook . These books documented the core knowledge to operate effectively in our industry. You’d add others as your level of badassery increased, perhaps Mastering Regular Expressions , [...]
September 19, 2008 – 10:06 pm
I haven’t actually been drag racing myself. Rather, I’ve been a casual watcher of so-called “nitro-class” drag racing since it is one of the sports offered regularly on ESPNHD on many lazy Sunday afternoons. Watching nitro-class drag racing on television allows one to only gloss the depths of this sport. One must actually go to [...]
Joyeur has a diverse audience with different sensibilities and opinions, and we tend to give folks a very long rope when leaving comments here on Joyeur. Just please remember this is our home and we ask that you play nicely once you walk through the door. Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are [...]
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 [...]
I got back from Railsconf yesterday and at some point picked up the latest Time magazine. It has Al Gore on the cover. There’s a picture of Mr. Gore working in his office. Did you notice the rig he’s working on? The GoreRig™. What struck me was the number of displays turned on. And the [...]
February 27, 2007 – 3:17 am
Just as a technical aside (from all this “website” talk), the Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network (site) has launched and looks great. It’s our preferred way of getting things like ejabberd and tsung installed on our systems. We contribute the “SunOS” (Solaris) packages to the project, so have fun.
September 18, 2006 – 4:25 am
There’s no question that one of the emerging business types is the virtual organization. Joyent is one of them. Of the twenty people that work for Joyent, only four of us regularly see each other at an office. The remainder are working around the clock around the world from Australia to Prague. It is very [...]
August 21, 2006 – 11:13 pm
Precusor ”[A] sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rocky ground; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And [...]
