mdehaan

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by mdehaan 14y ago
This is why I created http://ansible.github.com
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Pretty much. If folks have enough programming experience with other languages, it's easy to write Perl that looks more like those other languages, but unfortunately the moment a developer gets overworked or wants to show off (opposite extre
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Pretty sure they meant Campari, though choosing to put that in a flask is kind of weird.
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by mdehaan 14y ago
I had assumed this "technical cofounder" thing was a West Coast thing anyway :)
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Warning -- This article posts a longwinded first person account and finally ends with "this scenario is purely hypothetical". So it sounds like it is talking about a security vulnerability with git that really happened (signed commits or t
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Key lines: "Somebody please look at the diff. Thats a simple 3 line code addition. I agree to you @torvalds but you could have excused this time :)" AND: "By the way, its quite funny that github is sending instructions to @torvalds on usin
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by mdehaan 14y ago
I believe you used to be able to click on the "forks" and "watchers" button to see who is forked or watching. Now the button defaults to "unwatch" when looking at the project page. I find these new icons confusing as well. It took me a lo
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Chef requires Ruby programming. Puppet doesn't, but the core is obviously Ruby, and you extend it using Ruby. You may possibly like my new project: http://ansible.github.com The core is Python but you can write modules in any language.
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by mdehaan 14y ago
Yep, this is a pretty lame ranking system. Projects are given more points the more people are registered in them with accounts on the system. Compare this with what Ohloh does, where someone can be ranked in the top #10 of contributors (or
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by mdehaan 14y ago
If folks are wanting to check this out, my work build some VMware appliances for it. You should be able to get the server running in just a few minutes. Anyway, in case it's useful: http://www.rpath.com/solutions/cloudstack.php
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by mdehaan 14y ago
I find the gh_pages branch confusing too -- the idea that a branch doesn't contain something related to the other branches feels weird. What I've found is it's easier to create a free organization, and that way you can get a organization.gi
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by mdehaan 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but using short lived topic/feature branches and squash merges seems much easier than remembering all of these steps to "fix up" all these things. I think it becomes some what of a game to use all the more obscure corner
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Ansible: a new config management, deployment, & SSH framework(ansible.github.com)
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by mdehaan 15y ago
Cool. Here's another take on this, which doesn't produce quite as nice output, but produces some different stats and is Ruby based and a bit more objecty (if that matters). It doesn't like being fed the kernel but was fine on some very la