Claire's Alternate Version of Reality

Props to Bryan
Bryan's Photo

Props to Bryan Cantrill for a well-deserved award.   Last week, the MIT Technology Review awarded Bryan Cantrill a TR35 award, naming Bryan one of the 35 Young Innovators under the age of 35.

Bryan was nominated for his work on Solaris 10 with DTrace (which is open source software and is part of the OpenSolaris project. An active OpenSolaris community is found here.)   For fun, I dug up some old Slashdot quotes about Solaris DTrace (I'll post the links later):

"DTrace rocks my socks."
     - Slashdot user 1359
"Freaking [expletive deleted] on a stick. DTrace might be among the two or three most powerful tools I've ever used."
     - Slashdot user 2898
"[Expletive deleted] almighty! It's like they *saw inside my head* and gave me The One True Tool!"
     - Slashdot user 159009

I've blogged about Bryan before - no need to wax philosophical now. I will say this, though:

1. Do check out this great podcast interview with Bryan, courtesy of I/O Podcast by Richard Giles, and see why innovation stems from anger.

2. If you've not read Bryan's Observation Deck blog, check out this story titled: Man, myth, legend, and get hooked. Bryan's a gifted storyteller, and he ropes you in and infects with his passion and his voice.

3. Love Stephen O'Grady's comment in his del.icio.us bookmarks about Bryan's aforementioned story:

"anybody remember the scene from Cryptonomicon where Comstock gets hopped up on stimulants to keep up w/ Waterhouse? this is the real life equivalent"

4. Check out the great Bryan quote from Ozan Yigit... it's a classic.

[And, added item#5 on 10/7/05]
5. Here's a Contrarian Minds article about Bryan and DTrace titled No Bad Dogs: How to Make a Dog-Slow System Sit Up and Speak.

Congratulations, Bryan. It's an honor to work with you.

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(2005-09-14 01:11:49.0) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

That is not directly connected to BMC, but to your comment to Hal@DeadSea: I believe that the code on the T-shirt is from usr/src/uts/common/os/turnstile.c around line 450-460 (well that is from revision 1.65) Am I qualified for a T-shirt ?

Posted by Leon Koll on September 14, 2005 at 08:45 AM PDT #

Cool. You're right - it's turnstile.c. I'd be happy to send you a shirt. I'll fedex it to you 2nd day air - just as soon as let me know what size you need and email me your shipping address and phone#, ok? You can email me at claire DOT giordano AT sun DOT com... Just curious - are you a member of the OpenSolaris community??? I'll be creating a Flickr group for people to upload photos of themselves in their OpenSolaris SWAG - hopefully you'll upload one of you! Take care!

Posted by Claire Giordano on September 14, 2005 at 10:53 AM PDT #

I am glad to hear I am the winner! Yes, I am a member of OpenSolaris community (we are running the IsraeliOSUG here). Flickr group is definitely good idea as well as LinkedIn OpenSolaris group that can to keep us conected.

Posted by Leon Koll on September 14, 2005 at 11:40 PM PDT #