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Tag: ruby

Ajaxwhois acquired!

Stop the press! My pet project of long date Ajaxwhois.com was recently acquired! The deal has been in the work for quite some time and was finalized last Thursday. I’m really excited about this since the new owner intends to make the site even better. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to maintain it [...]

No nonsense GIT, part 1: git-remote-branch

We’re just starting to use GIT at Defensio and although there are plenty of great resources like the Peepcode video and Jean-François Couture’s blog, the learning curve (from SVN) can be a little rough. The problem is that GIT is very powerful, and probably too powerful for a small shop like ours. This unfortunately leads [...]