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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Cloud9/Ace/SkyWriter/Whatever-it's-called-today seems like a much better implementation of this.
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Just an update: GitMac is now out of beta and called Sprout on the Mac App Store http://gitmacapp.com/sprout
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Saw Avdi do this talk at Magic Ruby. It was really nice, and in depth, and answered quite a few questions. I bet the book is well worth the money.
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Same here. var _this = this; //vanilla var $this = $(this); //jQuery Though, I have encountered people who are really against the $var for stylistic reasons - so ymmv.
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Agreed! (IMO the ML backlash is more of a XML backlash that carried over to other MLs). Regardless - A designer that can design for any* framework with standard CSS/HTML is more flexible than a designer that knows HAML, but could't write
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Agreed about SASS (prefer LESS, but still applies), and somewhat with CoffeeScript (I'm in the "make-it-optional-not-default-but-i-heart-CS" camp)...but 100% about HAML. It just always strikes me as backlash against HTML rather than an act
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Agreed. The "Minefield" (besides being a terrible alpha/pre-release codename) icon left a lot to be desired.
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Ah, that makes sense! Sorry.
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
So it's still easier for people to find and buy your app than it was before the App Store - and you still have to do the same marketing that you would have without the App Store. What's the problem?
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Take this advice ! The people that are actually suffering from the problems your business solves are (usually) not managers, CEO, or anyone at the top. It is the people in the middle or bottom. They are usually also so happy to have someth
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
Agreed. Build for the problems you face now - not the problems you may theoretically have in the future. If a business grows that rapidly - it is most likely that the original systems will have evolved dramatically from day one anyway - i
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
I don't care as much as other people that Facebook === blue. But, IMO it needs a bit more polish. To a designer's eye, this immediately screams "programmer-designed". You may want to hire a designer - hand them these mockups - and let them
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by SpiralLab 15y ago
We shared this with HN when we were first starting out[1] (in pre-beta stage) and we just wanted to share the progress we have made and say "thanks" - as our awesome beta tester userbase was mostly HN readers. [1] http://news.ycombinator.
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Show HN: Sprout (formerly GitMac) the Fast Simple Git Mac App(gitmacapp.com)
4 points by SpiralLab 15y ago|3 comments
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
You probably aren't our target market (people new to Git) - but we are working on Git UI for OSX aimed at making the most common commands easy to perform. http://gitmacapp.com/download
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Firebug. The Webkit inspector is catching up nicely, but for now Firebug is Firefox's 'killer feature' (at least for web devs).
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
This is a straw man argument. The question isn't whether Git could be more intuitive/user-friendly (Hint: It should be, in fact I bet my company on it [see my profile]), or whether it is more secure/cheap to host your own repo. If you have
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Either it's: intentional, or they just don't give a damn. Considering the sources of most of their revenues, I'd say #2 is most likely. Companies that have been in Enterprise that long, making hand-over-fist money from mediocre products, ac
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
A major selling point of Git is the distributed part. You are allowed (even encouraged) to have more than one "source of truth". For ~7$/mo (including admin. and cheaper than Linode), GitHub is just another place to have a hosted version
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Nice! Thanks for the info.
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
...it's not just the experience it's everything: the hardware, software, UI, materials, industrial design, aesthetics... This. Try and think of one other computer company that has/takes/enforces that much control on every aspect of their
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
They should really integrate (or at least link to) their GitHub wiki on their official website. Every time we look into using Cappuccino for a project, the lack of (new or updated) documentation on their website is a turn off (was hoping it
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
This is excellent. Last time I looked at libgit2 was in May and it was seriously lacking. They must have put in a ton of work this summer! Good job Vincent, and props to Github for sponsoring it.
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
GitMac is in Private Beta right now. http://gitmacapp.com We focused more on making Git easy to use, so it's more of a Versions/Cornerstone type workflow.
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Yep, you are spot on. GitX is the best OSX app for Git right now. Though last time I checked the barrier of entry was a little high because there were lots of forks with different features. For the initial release, we are purposefully not i
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
We are shooting for a October/November Beta Release.
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Thank for the feedback. That is exactly the void we are trying to fill! Git is awesome, but the functionality can be overwhelming for people at times. As for the scripting, are you talking about integrating with git hooks, or just plain scr
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Forgot to add, of course, you can open any file/doc in XCode/Textmate/app-of-choice directly from gitmac.
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Yeah it is definitely a niche product. It's mostly targeted at developers who want a simple one-click way to do the most common actions with local checkouts - add, rm, commit, etc. Or people migrating from a "traditional" VCS, that aren't q
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by SpiralLab 16y ago
Yeah, we are in "pre" Beta state, just taking registrations right now. As far as Xcode integrations go, I think Xcode 4 actually has Git integrated baked in.

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