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Joyeur Bytes - March 2008

Google and Hi5 tap Joyent for Open Social developer infrastructure

Joyent Becomes a Corporate Patron of the Free Software Foundation

We have long admired the efforts of the Free Software Foundation in the development community, and are pleased to add our official support for the organization. For more information on our commitment to Free Software and Open Source, please read David’s post here.

Believe in what they do? Give them a little love too by volunteering or sending in a donation. Every little bit helps.

New Partner Program Rolls Out The Door

We have created a formal Joyent Partner Program for companies that provide value-added services such as application development, consulting, marketing or advertising. The program includes opportunities to earn substantial referral fees, while providing your clients with Joyent's highly scalable infrastructure.

Interested? Get in touch via email: blake [at] joyent [dot] com or +1.415.874.5504.

Welcome Jacques Marneweck, Andrew Rodriguez and Luis Campuzano

Jacques Marneweck

Jacques is a top notch Web developer with a background in administering and developing on the FreeBSD and OpenSolaris platforms using PHP, Perl, MySQL and Apache. A Joyent (formerly TextDrive) customer since 2005, Jacques has been an active participant in the forums and been one of our most vocal advocates. We are (and he is) very happy to have him as part of our Customer Support team.

Andres Rodriguez

Andres lives by a simple motto: “to make what you really like, and create more efficient ways for people to do things.” An electronic engineering graduate from Bogotá, Colombia, Andres likes to balance his love of technology with creating fabulous dishes in the kitchen (he would like to be the head chef at his own restaurant someday) and honing his skills as a photographer. He also wishes to drink beers from 100 different countries, so we are thinking he will fit into our development team quite nicely.

Luis Campuzano

Luis hails from Manizales, a small town in Colombia where he says the air is clean and everyone there is happy. When he is not chained to his desk writing the next big Facebook application, Luis likes to pull back on a beer or two and hanging out with friends and family. He is very excited to be part of the development team, and we are super happy to have him on board as well.

Customer Highlight

Strawpoll

Rob Goodlatte and Dan Romero recently launched a polling service integrated with Twitter to collect daily surveys in a very simple manner. To play along you need to follow strawpoll on Twitter, then everyday strawpoll will ask a simple question and you can respond in the following way:

Question: Better superpower: flight (1) or invisibility (2)?

@strawpoll flight Because I am a bird. ---- or ---- @strawpoll 1 Because I am a bird. (Format is @strawpoll )

To see all the results from the poll, visit them online. Good stuff fellas.

Movable Love

Hey Moveable Type lovers, Aaron Bailey has built a showcase of beautiful and interesting sites powered by Movable Type. The site will soon be implemented in Movable Type Community Solution, which will allow readers to submit their own sites and rate others.

Last Exit To Nowhere

Arthur Case helped to launch a collection of unique shirt designs that are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction – from the sunny shores of Amity Island (Jaws) to the frozen climes of Outpost #31 (The Thing). Place your order now.

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Tips and Tricks: Useful Shell Commands

Ever wondered how to check how much memory you were using on your Accelerator? What about how many processes are currently running?

Well look no further than the Joyent wiki where we have these and several other useful commands listed to help you manage your resources and ensure your application keeps humming along smoothly.

Bites – not Bytes

You don’t get the rocking bodies we have by shying away from a good plate of food. And while we tend to eat out quite a bit, some of us happen to be pretty good cooks, so we thought we would start collecting favorite recipes from our fellow Joyeurs to share with one another to ensure our BMIs continue to hover around the 29 mark.

Dessert Quesadilla: from Will Styler

• Tortillas
• Marshmallow fluff
• Shredded coconut
• Chocolate chips
• Cinnamon and sugar to taste

Directions

Take a tortilla, coat one side with marshmallow fluff. Then, apply a thin layer of sweetened shredded coconut, then an equal amount of milk and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Top it off with some cinnamon and sugar to taste.

Then, place said tortilla, fluff-side-up, on a medium/low heat skillet/pan/hibachi, and cover with a second tortilla. Heat until the top tortilla is stuck to the bottom one, pressing down occasionally to encourage chip-melting, and then flip. Just make sure not to burn the tortilla.

One full sized tortilla serves 3-4. They're best eaten about 10 minutes after preparation, and make sure to keep them tightly covered, to prevent tortilla drying.

Muffuletta: by Chris Heuer

• 4 Kaiser or other round, seeded rolls, each 4 inches in diameter, split
• 1 cup olive salad (can buy in most grovery stores in the condiment aisle)
• 3 oz. thinly sliced cooked ham
• 3 oz. thinly sliced Genoa salami
• 4 oz. thinly sliced mortadella
• 4 slices provolone cheese

Directions:

Lay the roll halves, cut sides up, on a work surface. Brush the cut sides with oil from the olive salad. On the bottom half of each roll, spread 2 Tbs. to 1/4 cup olive salad. Place the ham, salami, mortadella and cheese on top, dividing evenly. Cover each sandwich with the top half of a roll. Cook the sandwiches immediately, or cover and refrigerate overnight to allow the flavors to develop.

Preheat an electric panini press on medium-low according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Place the sandwiches, one at a time, on the preheated panini press. Cook according to the manufacturer's instructions until the sandwich is warmed through and the cheese is melted, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer the sandwiches to a cutting board and cut each into quarters. Serve warm. Serves 6 to 8.

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