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by garethr 16y ago
In lots of cases the separate package maintainer's do a good but ultimately thankless task. The example I gave between the rabbitmq packages which are built as part of the development effort and made available on the rabbitmq site and the s
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Why developers should care about system packages(morethanseven.net)
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Solr Libraries and Good API Design(morethanseven.net)
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Heroku for...(morethanseven.net)
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Advent calendar blog for entrepreneurs(24waystostart.com)
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by garethr 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. Good idea, the original aim was for a newsletter aimed at an existing community but from some mentions on Twitter it looks like other people are interested too. I can also claim very little credit for the design, that
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A new weekly email newsletter about devops (devopsweekly.com)
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Why using SOA might kill your project(rant3000.blogspot.com)
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Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ(lucas-nussbaum.net)
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by garethr 16y ago
Personally I edit the code on my mac using gvim and run and use git on the VM. I've used ExpanDrive to mount the directory from the VM for editing previously but I've been moving towards using vagrant with it's NFS shares.
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by garethr 16y ago
People might be interested in DoubleDown ( http://blog.devstructure.com/introducing-doubledown ) from the DevStructure guys. It uses rsync in a similar background manner and it's designed with this exact problem in mind.
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by garethr 16y ago
I'll change the Ruby tool bit. I mentioned elsewhere in the post that it's a great tool whichever language you're using. Regarding tools other than Chef for provisioning, while there is a Python clone somewhere Chef will very likely have th
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Puppet Labs acquires open source tool from author(puppetlabs.com)
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by garethr 16y ago
Not sure if they are still looking but Nokia had some interesting sounding jobs going in Berlin. Working with Matt Biddulph of Dopplr fame. http://www.hackdiary.com/2010/02/10/algorithmic-recruitment-...
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What to Look For in a HTTP Proxy/Cache(mnot.net)
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by garethr 17y ago
One of the things that I think is relevant to startups hiring is that ( warning experience mixed with opinion ahead) there are lots and lots of PHP developers of wildly varying quality. This makes the initial stages of recruitment time con
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by garethr 18y ago
I'll probably get round to opening up the code so people can run their own versions soonish. I want to test out a few things first and clean up the code. If anyone is particularly interested drop me an email at gareth@morethanseven.net
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REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion(unlimitednovelty.com)
32 points by garethr 18y ago|32 comments
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Google Wonder Wheel - Search Visualisation on Google Search Page(morethanseven.net)
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When is the right time for accessibility?(boxofchocolates.ca)
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Blog post aggregator of Hacker News users(morethanseven.net)
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by garethr 18y ago
Paypal is good and pretty feature rich, but it's not the most straightforward thing to work with. It's not really that the API is under-documented, more that it can involve lots of back and forth and your code needs to deal with lots of cas