Carl Mercier's blog » Sites I like http://blog.carlmercier.com me = entrepreneur + hacker; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:38:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Changes at IsItJRuby.com http://blog.carlmercier.com/2009/12/14/changes-at-isitjruby-com/ http://blog.carlmercier.com/2009/12/14/changes-at-isitjruby-com/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:56:45 +0000 Carl Mercier http://blog.carlmercier.com/?p=276 I’ve been ridiculously busy lately. Way too busy. Too busy to sleep, to hit the gym, and definitely maintain yet another website. Unfortunately, IsItJRuby.com didn’t get the love it deserved so I started hunting for someone to take my place.

Alex Coles (@myabc) volunteered and is now the new maintainer. He already shared with me a couple good ideas for the site, which he’ll hopefully implement soon.

Thank you, Alex, and congrats!

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If you’re not already aware of that, I’m the author of a nifty little website called Ajaxwhois.  It allows you to lookup any domain name (including .ca, .uk and so on) and to perform whois queries on them.  All of this is, of course, ajaxified to the fullest extent.

The good thing is that Ajaxwhois does NOT send queries to ANY domain registrar and I certainly won’t steal the domain names you search for.

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