Written by jgshort on December 21, 2008 – 12:04 AM
This week: Took a close, hard look at Capistrano for the deployment and management of “production” sites. Became intimately familiar with SSL certificates under Apache (and thanks to the good people at GoDaddy, it ended up being a lot less painful than I expected). Got a good lesson in being “visible” to my employer as [...]
Written by jgshort on December 13, 2008 – 9:55 PM
Many exciting things this week: Upgraded stoopad.com to WordPress 2.7 Created my very first screencast! I used Snapz Pro for OS X. Exceptional application, highly recommended. We settled on a primary comic format. Not that anyone cares, but we presented it on Friday. Hope you all enjoy! Also, from stoopad.com: On its way, a year [...]
Written by jgshort on December 13, 2008 – 7:34 PM
Quickly: Just discovered tortoisegit. I loved TortoiseSVN… this should prove an interesting project to watch…
Written by jgshort on December 10, 2008 – 9:22 PM
The following QuickTime Vimeo screencast is about two minutes and thirty seconds long and is aimed at developers new to git and unfamiliar with git. I talk about initializing a new repository, adding files to a new repository, committing, status and the git revision log.
Written by jgshort on December 10, 2008 – 6:00 PM
I’ve used many-a revision control tools during my software development career, beginning with Visual Source Safe, migrating to SourceGear’s Vault followed by a long and fantastic relationship with Subversion and now, in my own personal projects, git. By far my favorite has been git. Ladies and gentleman, I’m telling you now: Distributed revision control is [...]
Written by jgshort on December 10, 2008 – 5:30 PM
Seen on Slicehost’s tweet today: Ludwig Petterson has created a sweet little Dashboard widget for OS X that monitors your Slicehost instances. It uses your Slicehost API, so make sure you enable API access under the SliceManage console first. Pretty great!!
Written by jgshort on December 9, 2008 – 9:57 PM
I was pretty content downloading the nightly WordPress build every other day or so. However, stoopad.com is now on 2.7 RC2 and I’m probably going to leave it there until the final 2.7 release. Very solid, I love it. The upgrade tool, by the way, is fantastic, I couldn’t be happier with the one-button-upgrade process. [...]
Written by jgshort on December 9, 2008 – 5:13 PM
I wanted a comprehensive log analyzer application for my httpd server and AWStats is a fantastic package for just such a need! Getting it deployed on my Slicehost image was an entirely simple task, but I thought I’d post the instructions for anyone else who may need to do the same.
Written by jgshort on December 8, 2008 – 8:00 PM
As I read Open Thread: Social Web & Its Challenges, I realized how ridiculously fragmented and ugly my own online identity has become. Twitter accounts, MySpace, Facebook, OpenID, banking, shopping, noise and clutter and ugh! Dameon Welch-Abernathy wrote (in response to Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate): Companies are building services atop services without [...]
Written by jgshort on December 8, 2008 – 7:30 PM
I just read Macenstein’s Top 20 iPhone Games of 2008. It’s a good list, but in my opinion it leaves out a handful of “instant classics.” Here’s a list of my personal favorite games for the iPhone and why I like them. Virtual Villagers: A New Home (Big Fish Games, 2008) It’s quaint, it’s simple [...]