Comments for the Patch-Tag blog http://blog.patch-tag.com give your code a home Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Transliterating python to haskell: Fibonacci in the state monad by TIK http://blog.patch-tag.com/2009/12/07/transliterating-python-to-haskell-fibonacci-in-the-state-monad/#comment-436 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:25:20 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=266#comment-436 Even simpler version:

fib = f n 0 1
f 0 a b = a
f n a b = f (n-1) b (a+b)

]]> Comment on Patch-tag Backups by thomashartman1 http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/03/15/patch-tag-backups/#comment-414 Sun, 15 May 2011 18:55:59 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=328#comment-414 The solution described in top post proved to be more expensive than I thought. Should have gone with incrementals!

So I’ve switched backups to use the linode off-the-shelf back solution described here:

http://www.linode.com/backups

]]> Comment on Steps for renewing godaddy security cert with stunnel by Daenney http://blog.patch-tag.com/2011/02/11/steps-for-renewing-godaddy-security-cert-with-stunnel/#comment-412 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:31:30 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/2011/02/11/steps-for-renewing-godaddy-security-cert-with-stunnel/#comment-412 If you want a decent CA I’d suggest you have a look at StartCom.

They provide free SSL certificates and have their Root CA available in Widnows, Mac, Linux and the major browsers.

As an added bonus you can request as much free certificates as you want as long as you can prove ownership of the domain.

Depending on the level of payment a few verification levels allow for extra functionality such as wildcard certificates or EV. For about 60$ you get a Class 2 Verification which gives you the wildcards and your new certificates then are valid for two years.

Even SSL Extended Validation (the green address bar in IE and Fx) is very affordable through them compared to any other certificate provider around.

]]> Comment on EC2 Amis for Gitit / Happstack by Eduardo Pareja Tobes http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/02/12/ec2-amis-for-gitit-happstack/#comment-410 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:22:21 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=294#comment-410 Cool stuff, I was thinking of building up an AMI with Haskell support from scratch; this will definitely save me a lot of work.

Concerning your chat log,

EBS snapshots: well, in short, they’re not point-in-time. Here’s the relevant FAQ entry: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Do_volumes_need_to_be_un-mounted_in_order_to_take_a_snapshot_Does_the_snapshot_need_to_complete_before_the_volume_can_be_used_again
Depending on your OS, there are combinations of filesystem freezing (XFS, for example) + EBS which do provide poin-in-time features; I recommend Eric Hammond’s http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot

]]> Comment on HOWTO: Setup Windows for use with darcs2 and Patch-Tag by Horacio Serrano http://blog.patch-tag.com/2009/03/01/howto-setup-windows-for-use-with-darcs2-and-patch-tag/#comment-344 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:17:42 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=27#comment-344 An installer would be a very good idea. This is kind of a hustle to set up, and this is with out even going into firewall issues.

]]> Comment on HOWTO: Setup Windows for use with darcs2 and Patch-Tag by adrian http://blog.patch-tag.com/2009/03/01/howto-setup-windows-for-use-with-darcs2-and-patch-tag/#comment-343 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:41:29 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=27#comment-343 You also need to

$ ssh @patch-tag.com once prior to “darcs get” in order to trust the server’s key, at least in windows xp.

]]> Comment on Patch-Tag Lessons Learned, and Announcing Open Source by Alessandro Stamatto http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/07/21/patch-tag-lessons-learned-and-announcing-open-source/#comment-337 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:16:54 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=335#comment-337 Good work with Path-Tag! I personally prefer the hyphen too, but if it gives headaches change it xD.

You’re right about dependencies in cabal… I couldn’t install Yi Editor through Cabal… But i was in windows, maybe i’ll have more luck in Arch.

Cheers, and keep the good work!

]]> Comment on patch-tag gets more ram by Maze http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/06/16/patch-tag-gets-more-ram/#comment-335 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:04:02 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=331#comment-335 If you seriously considering monetizing this service there is pretty much one licensing option: AGPLv3
Affero GPL will guarantee that nobody will simply take all your hardwork, setup couple of payment gateways and start getting $$ without giving you anything.
If you go with AGPLv3 then anyone who is using your code will be forced to behave in fair way: contribute all the changes back even if they just install it and offer as a SaaS.

]]> Comment on Patch-Tag Lessons Learned, and Announcing Open Source by thomashartman1 http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/07/21/patch-tag-lessons-learned-and-announcing-open-source/#comment-328 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:06:13 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=335#comment-328 Hey Eric, good idea, I did another edit for clarity, and deleted your second suggestion since it now adds nothing — hope you don’t understand :)

]]> Comment on Patch-Tag Lessons Learned, and Announcing Open Source by thomashartman1 http://blog.patch-tag.com/2010/07/21/patch-tag-lessons-learned-and-announcing-open-source/#comment-326 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:43:24 +0000 http://blog.patch-tag.com/?p=335#comment-326 To answer Eric, yes, patch-tag is here to stay.

Essentially all the original plans remain in place, including eventual revenue positivity. Only somewhat slowed down due to demands of day job/pays-for-rent gig, where I will have a very busy next two months.

My tentative plan is to go back to giving patch-tag, and the happstack ecosystem in general, some love in october or thereabouts.

Meanwhile, if anybody in the community would care to have a whack at adding features I will gladly support them. I haven’t done much outreach on the open-sourcedness because of the time factor (in fact I have blocked reddit and hn in /hosts :) ) — but I continue to be present on email and the the patch-tag googlegroup.

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