I started patch-tag coming on two years ago, and a blog post has been brewing about what went right, what went wrong, what I didn’t expect (or what was harder than I thought) and where I see things going. Here goes. UPDATE: After I posted the initial version of this communique, a couple of people [...]
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Patch-Tag Lessons Learned, and Announcing Open Source
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
patch-tag gets more ram
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For free. Thanks, linode!
Patch-tag Backups
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have gotten a few private queries about backups lately, and thought it would be good to say a few words about what and how we keep your repositories safe. Patch-tag is hosted on linode, and we do backups using S3 in the amazon cloud. Patch-tag backups up all repository and application state data once [...]
Mirroring Patch Tag
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged repositories on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gwern, darcs archivist extraordinaire, asked me to make it easier for him to mirror repositories hosted on patch-tag. After some back and forth, I provided the link above. If anybody else would like to mirror patch tag repositories, gwern kindly provided me with the script he uses for mirroring patch tag: It’s a nice basic [...]
Prepaid EC2 — a simple way to cut amazon cloud costs when working with contractors
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Amazon EC2 is great, but it can get expensive, especially when you have an army of contractors doing all sorts of different things. If you’re not careful, you can wind up creeping into a sort of tragedy of the commons situation where nobody shuts down little used EC2 instances because “that’s somebody else’s job” or [...]
The Happstack Guestbook App
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Happstack guestbook example application is the best way to learn how to learn HSP with happstack. It is really cool, and HSP, haskell’s answer to php, has gotten really significantly better in the past few months. The only thing is that it is ridiculously hard to find. Hopefully that link three paragraphs back will [...]
The Witching Hour at Starbucks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged life on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is something eerie about the starbucks where I sit programming, around 7 pm. It closes at 9 pm, yet it feels closed already. Employees push mops around. The temperature drops. The light seems a little dimmer. It is the witching hour. Out of nowhere, the six or seven people left here start singing happy [...]
EC2 Amis for Gitit / Happstack
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ec2, gitit, happstack, haskell on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Patch-Tag uses linode, but I’ve decided to try out EC2 for development purposes, as the hourly pricing model is attractive for server instances that don’t need to persist, and… well, I’m curious. First off, with a big bow of respect to the amz engineers, I’ll tell ya, EC2 has gotten a lot better lately. The [...]
Taking your gitit wiki offline
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gitit wiki on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great things about distributed version control is that you can unplug from the internet and keep checking in. If you recreate your gitit wiki offline, you can unplug from the internet and keep interacting with your repository via your offline gitit wiki. Here’s a newsgroup discussion that describes how to use your [...]
The Patch Tag Bug Tracker
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Patch Tag has a bug tracker, an anonymously editable gitit wiki hosted at patch-tag. Full details at the mailing list, where I made the announcement.
