Mercurial 1.4.1 was released last week. It’s obviously a minor update compared to what 1.4 was, but it does include a really neat built-in extension: schemes Let’s say you are like me and want to push your code up to your project’s Kiln repository. This involves typing something along the lines of: hg push “https://justinw@secondgear.fogbugz.com/kiln/repo/products/group/today” […]
Archive for December, 2009
- Tweeteorites ✶
If you’re looking for somewhere else that offers fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game, I highly recommend Andrew Wooster’s Tweeteorites. Like Favrd it has a leaderboard and personal bests, but it also a great view of what your followers are starring.
- Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway ✶
Jeff Atwood:
There’s no question that, for whatever time budget you have, you will end up with better software by releasing as early as practically possible, and then spending the rest of your time iterating rapidly based on real world feedback.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I’d also add that shipping a 2.0 is even harder than a 1.0 because the temptation to fix everything you left out in 1.0 is strong. Welcome to the last few months of my life.
- nanoc — A Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML ✶
nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and “compiles” documents written in HTML, Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc. into a static web site, ready for uploading to any web server.
- Build It With Me ✶
New site that connects designers and developers for Mac, iPhone or Web-based projects. Looks nice, but I’m perfectly content with my two current designers, William Wilkinson and Marcelo Marfil.
- Disable and Recover from Mac OS X’s Quarantine ✶
“Wolf” Rentzsch walks you through disabling the quarantine and how to remove the quarantine xattrs from existing files. Wolf’s new blog has quickly moved into my very exclusive Must Read folder in NetNewsWire.
Deliver Your Downloads With A CDN
As an Indie developer, the most important asset you have is the Zip or DMG files that contain your product. These downloads are what make or break your business. It is important to ensure that those bits are delivered reliably and quickly to each customer. Previously I was hosting the downloads on my Web hosting […]
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