Carl Mercier's blog

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Month: January, 2007

The easy way to transfer e-mails to another server

I frequently have to move e-mails from one server to another and it has always beena royal pain in the neck. I can’t afford to lose e-mails and was always afraid I (or my clients) did. Today, I spent some time solving this problem by hacking a little Python script, email_transfer.py. It allows you to [...]

Why I moved from Ruby on Rails to Python/Django and back

Around March of 2006, I decided to proceed with a complete rewrite of Ajaxwhois.com. I had been studying Ruby on Rails for long enough and knew it would be the ideal platform to develop with. And I was right. While Ruby and Rails might be a little awkward at first for the Java or .NET [...]