Archive for October, 2009

MIT + Please Contribute License

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

We all love open source. Most of the tools I use and platforms I develop on are part of some open source initiative. With that said I think that many people are missing the point and coming to the table with unreasonable and sometimes arrogant expectations of OS maintainers. Last week ...

Testing your Google API connectors in development

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I often find myself needing to interface with google and their suite of applications. It may be obvious but I thought I would share my method of configuring my environment so I can actually connect to the google servers with the same api key that I use on production. ...

Thoughts on deploying ruby apps without capistrano

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I recently left the ruby deployment team forĀ  large managed rails-based hosting provider. We used capistrano for our deployment needs. Once we had successfully configured an application and its dependencies we would hand over a very robust capistrano recipe to the end user and it turns out that almost all ...