About Me I’m Deirdré Straughan. A great deal about my personal and professional life is available on my site, Countries Beginning with I. I have been a community manager since long before the title existed, first for the Italian startup I worked for in Milan, then for Adaptec (when it bought us), then for Adaptec’s… Continue reading Introducing Your SmartOS Community Manager
Tag: Joyent
Illumos Meetup
Photos from last night’s Illumos meetup – a reunion of many of the old Sun gang. Yes, video follows! You might also like: Joyent Retrospective
node.js Community Event: Rough Cut Videos
Joyent hosted a node.js community event at our San Francisco offices the other evening, in which Ryan Dahl announced a new version of node.js, and Brendan Gregg showed some amazing stuff you can do with Joyent Cloud Analytics on your no.de hosted site to understand what’s going on in your node.js app. For more details on… Continue reading node.js Community Event: Rough Cut Videos
Joyent End User Tutorial Videos
Wondering what I’m up to in my new job? As mentioned, I work for Joyent, which does cloud computing. In addition to and as part of my job as Director of Technical Training, I’m doing a lot of video (well, what did you expect?) including live streaming events like a talk by Bryan Cantrill and… Continue reading Joyent End User Tutorial Videos
The Twitter Diaries, Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 23, 2011
It’s that time of the month in which I crave chocolate. Fortunately, the Tim Tam elf visited recently. – 12/30/10 17:54 New glasses. I find if very difficult to take a good self – Â portrait with the iPhone. Or at all. Â – 12/30/10 18:00 Getting to know (aka playing with) the new camera totally counts… Continue reading The Twitter Diaries, Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 23, 2011