Archive for 2008/4
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Gems on Github
-- April 24, 2008, 8:51 p.m.
Github is now a gem server. See the howto page for details. This is a really big deal. It's not that we need yet another gem server, but what this means is that there's now a standard way to distribute your own custom variations of gems at quite nearly no effort. For example, I might have a project that's built ...
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My Main Problem with Google App Engine
-- April 13, 2008, 11:26 p.m.
The community. It's completely full of ungrateful idiots. I mean, sure, some people are doing some really cool stuff in there, but you can't find it because of the complaints. I signed up the night it was announced, and got an RSS feed from the google group. I expected lots of interesting hackery going on. What I found instead was ...
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The Differences Between Mercurial and Git
-- April 6, 2008, 7:28 p.m.
I realized recently that I've been using distributed revision control for several years now. It's always been an exciting landscape for me, although it's been a bit lonely. I used gnu arch for most of my code for a long time, and dabbled some in darcs at the same time. It wasn't until I saw Brian O'Sullivan's tech talk on ...