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 [...]
Read More»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 [...]
Read More»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 [...]
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 [...]
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 devices [...]
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 [...]
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