JRuby and Joyent Accelerators
I don't pimp Joyent products much, but I'll do so for this one. In our new Joyent Accelerators JRuby is pre-installed and ready to run out of the box. Joyent is a key player in the Ruby on Rails world, hosting some of the biggest (Twitter) and best (Ebible) Rails sites on the net. I'm glad to say that we're the first hosting company to get behind and seriously advocate JRuby for production use. Getting started is easy. In our Accele...
Ian Murdock and Glynn Foster at SVOSUG TONIGHT!
Tonight, at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group will be welcoming Ian Murdock to clear up misconceptions and bring us all up to date on Project Indiana. THIS IS A MUST ATTEND EVENT! Project Indiana is going to change the face of the Solaris world... but maybe not the way you think. Don't listen to the second hand accounts or conjecture, come tonight and find out first hand. If you can not attend use the call in number. ...
IO Benchmarking: How, Why and With What
I've been meaning to bring up the dreaded benchmark topic for some time. Benchmarking is like some type of taboo... everyone wants to but you get chastised if you talk about it. That, of course, only fuels the desire that much more. But how? What do you use? When do you use what tool? Its really hard to find good information and so here is my attempt to shed some light on things. Before we begin, lets look at the word itself: ...
May Product Plugs
Here's a dump of various products and companies that I've wanted to plug but due to my audience don't really have places to fit 'em in... Iridesse: Pearls ditch the PTA I wanted to get Tamarah a unique necklace for Mothers Day. I set out to Tiffany's but they close early, so we went cruising around the Valley Fair mall and found Iridesse, a new jewelry company specializing in pearls but with a decidedly 21st century flare. These ain't ...
JavaOne Wrap Up
JavaOne has come and gone... yet again. I'll be honest, JavaOne really is the best show of the year. Its big, exciting, and frantic, just what a great show should be. So much is going on your constantly trying to figure out how you can get more in. Sadly I didn't get to attend any JavaOne session, just a couple of the CommunityOne sessions. Here's a hint: The week was a busy one for me. I spent most of my time in the Pavilion at ...
Systems Administration as a Career: A Response
I was bummed out when reading How do I get my sysadmin to do anything? by Paul Boutin. Most of the content is fine, sure, but this line bothered me: No one sets out to be a professional systems administrator -- do you ever see kids wearing toy pagers playing sysadmin? ... well, I did, in essence. From high school on I was destine to be an SA. Its what I wanted to do, what I wanted to be. I would draw Slayer, Megadeth, and "Sun ...
JavaOne 2007: Days Zero and One
I'm finally back from my first two days at JavaOne. The first day, day zero, since all the official JavaOne stuff really starts in full swing on Tuesday (today), was a really busy day. All at the same time JavaOne sessions, Startup Camp and CommunityOne were happening. Most of the Joyent crew including Joyuer's Mark Mayo and Derek Crudgington, were at StartupCamp while I was over at CommunityOne. CommunityOne itself was a real challenge ...
Introduction to OpenSolaris @ JavaOne’s CommunityOne
The schedule is up for the CommunityOne Day at JavaOne. CommunityOne will run all day on Monday May 7th. I'll be speaking at 11:05am as the first session in the OpenSolaris Track: Introduction to the OpenSolaris Operating System. Given the audience and the short time span this will be a high-level overview of OpenSolaris including our history, our community, our governance model, and a quick run through of what is what (SX:DE vs SX:CE vs ...
Solaris Express Developer Edition for Parallels
I was digging around Sun's Download site looking for some goodies (SunMC) when I came across an exciting gem that I was unaware of: Solaris Express, Developer Edition Appliance for the Parallels Virtual Machine 1.0! If you've wanted Solaris in Parallel's for Windows or OSX and had problems, struggle no longer! The work is done for you, just download (made easy with Sun's Download Manager and Java Webstart, just check all the parts for OSX ...
Brendan Gregg, DTrace Master, Speaks at SVOSUG Tonight!
Brendan Gregg, creator of the DTrace Toolkit and author of the book that I know everyone has on your desk (you DO have a copy on your desk right?) Solaris(TM) Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, is speaking at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group tonight! Come by Santa Clara SCA03 tonight on the Agnews site for a great talk on DTrace. Brendan, like his colleges Bryan Cantrill, Mike ...