Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC
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Apple makes it sound very easy.
When it comes to deploying the code to the production server, and re-deploying your application with each new release, you’re in for a treat. Capistrano (formerly SwitchTower) is an automated deployment utility that makes deploying Rails applications a breeze. To summarize, after installing Capistrano, deploying a new version of your application to one or more deployment machines is as simple as typing
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An interesting ad. I haven’t seen other companies recruit with an opening paragraph like this.
Do you know who Kernighan, Ritchie, and Pike are? Have you ever met any of them? Do you know what AWK stands for? Do you know why it is a bad idea to write shell scripts in ‘csh’? Do you know how to use ‘ed’? Do you now what ‘L1-A’ does? Do you understand the limitations of SysV, FreeBSD, Debian, and RPM packaging systems but also understand that they are a necessary evil? Then you, quite probably, are the kind of person we are looking for.
So I was reading the box.net blog when I saw that they’re allowing visitors to chat with the box.net team. Even cooler than that is the way that they’re doing it. They’re using Gabbly, a neat service that lets you chat about any URL on the web. All you have to do is visit gabbly.com/http://www.intelliot.com/ (for example), to chat about that site. It’s genius, and a very slick interface, too. You can continue to chat, even while you browse around.
