A pleasant surprise? I obviously know nothing about the nodejitsu firing, but your tutorials and IRC help were invaluable in getting me up on node and our start-up off the ground. For that you have my sincere thanks and we'll certainly miss your presence.
-Brandon On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:56:45 AM UTC-4, Marak Squires wrote: > > Internet Friends - > > I'm sure it will come as a pleasant surprise for most of you to hear I'm > leaving node.js for good. I'll also be stepping down from any involvement > with Flatiron and completely shutting down hook.io > > In all honesty, I don't think there is much of a loss here for anyone. > > The Flatiron framework is pretty much pointless and I'd advise against > using it. I started to add some really good reflection features, but since > my access has now been removed from Flatiron, I'll no longer be able to > advance or maintain any of these features. > > The same advice goes for hook.io. hook.io was a great idea, but it's been > systematically made obsolete by Nodejitsu in favor of a closed > source priority solution. I'd love to be able to share this with you, but > it's closed source, so thats that. I was rebuilding hook.io to use > Flatiron, but without the ability to work on Flatiron anymore, it's all > moot. > > It's really sad to wind all this down, but I don't have a choice in the > matter. I've been fired from Nodejitsu and no longer have the resources or > git commit access to move any of this stuff forward. > > Anyway, thanks for all the good and bad times and goodbye. > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
