Introducing Your SmartOS Community Manager

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

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

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 –  portrait with the iPhone. Or at all.  – 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