Archive for October, 2009
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.
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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. ...
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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 ...
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