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Comment on Bitbucket, Hosted Mercurial Source Control by Jesper Noehr

Jesper Noehr — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:06:46 +0000

Hi Alistair,

Thanks for the excellent write-up, appreciate it. If you’re ever considering drinking the Mercurial kool-aid as you so aptly call it, I’d be happy to help you get started over on Bitbucket, and who knows, I might upgrade your plan for freesies. We’re on IRC if you need us. :-)

Comment on ASP.NET Permanent (301) Redirect by Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:07:52 +0000

Much the same thing, but the following also works:
Response.Redirect(url, false);
Response.StatusCode = 301;
Response.End();

Comment on Non-English Languages & Whacky Domain Names by James Holderness

James Holderness — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:57:13 +0000

The algorithm for encoding an international domain name is fairly complicated and is documented in a series of RFCs - 3490, 3491 and 3492. The one that will probably be of most interest to you is RFC 3492, which describes the Punycode encoding format.

Comment on Rapid Development Using Django by Jesper Nøhr

Jesper Nøhr — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:05:16 +0000

Hi Alistair,

Thank you for the write-up. You’ve gotten a pretty perfect image of how things played out, even things I didn’t mention in the original blog post. Kudos :-)

I thought you might be interested to know that things are going well for Indiego at the moment, we’re nearing the 300 users mark, and we’ve rolled out several new features since then (in a minimal amount of time, too!)

Thanks again, you’ve been added to my RSS feed :-)

Comment on Jim “Mr Shy” Mirkalami by Luke Welling

Luke Welling — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:54:57 +0000

I have been posting updates to my Jim Mirkalami saga. He is thinks “Un-authorized[sic] publication of my personal name (un-konwingly[sic] at first knowingley[sic] and willingly after) cuasing[sic] seriouse[sic] damage to my reputation” is worth $10000.

http://lukewelling.com/2008/03/31/jim-mirkalami-update-2-small-claims-court-10000/

Comment on Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer by Luke Welling

Luke Welling — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:08:52 +0000

Yep, I am getting fan mail from him too.

The original email and follow-ups are up on http://lukewelling.com if you want to see how it progresses

Comment on Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer by Sujoy

Sujoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:39:25 +0000

Apparently I received a mail from a certain Jim Mirkalami regarding removal of the post coz it maligns his name and identity. I tried replying to him, but the mail couldn’t get through.

Here’s the post where I have reported all of this . I guess this is another attempt of yet another spammer or may be the same. Did you get any of these?

Best,
Sujoy

Comment on Django Friendly Hosting by Ryan Berg

Ryan Berg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:13:53 +0000

Thanks for the writeup!

There definitely could be a more dynamic way to filter the hosts in the future, but for the sake of getting launched I figured price and environment would suffice. It’s on my list of things to explore, but probably after a form for adding and editing hosts, and maybe OpenID access. Server location is definitely on my wish list, too.

In the meantime, hopefully the ratings themselves will help narrow the field enough. There are only so many hosts getting strong ratings.

Comment on Ruby On Rails & Mongrel Generally Slow by Frank

Frank — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:58:38 +0000

The classification may be a bit tainted when it comes down to Rails applications as the currently preferred production deployment is a cluster of mongrel servers proxied through a load balancing apache server which also does the heavily lifting when it comes down to serving up static content. Hence depending on how you try to determine what the server side is, you may end up classifying all these mongrel clusters as Apache farms.

Comment on Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer by Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:45:35 +0000

Luke,

Funny you mention that, when I first started looking into it - I noticed a lot of bad press regarding the name. At the time, I didn’t look any further and thought the liklihood that it’d be the same person were slim.

After reading your thoughts on the matter though, I think you could have very well hit the nail on the head.

You have to admire the tactics used to remove the bad press though, heh.

Al.