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Source Control Commit Visualisation

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Alistair

Software development relies on source control management software such as CVS, Subversion, SourceSafe, Bitkeeper, Mercurial, Git and the like to track and manage the changes in the source code over time. As a project progresses, developers come and go, contractors … Continue reading →

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.htaccess Inheritance Gotcha

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Alistair

I recently set up a subdomain within a CPanel hosting account and ran into a strange problem. After the subdomain was built, DNS propogated, FTP access and a database set up – I uploaded the latest version of the ever … Continue reading →

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Ruby On Rails & Mongrel Generally Slow

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Alistair

Rich Skrenta wrote an article recently about ranking web 2.0 sites by server performance, in which he talks about server response time and latency and how it impacts a site. To see how everything stacked up, Rich decided that he’d … Continue reading →

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