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Any chance of offering a download that doesn't require me to install GIT on my computer?

Watch out, first you start using SVN over git and then people will assume you don't own a MacBook and then your chances of Rails development jobs are shot :)

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/files/abingo.zip

At the moment that is created by hand and so it won't be automatically updated. I'll figure out a more permanent solution later.

Thanks for that. Given your writing about the pain of dealing with open source, I would have expected you'd have that autogenerating from the start.

For what it's worth, the reason I'm not running git on my Linux box is that I'm a C# guy by choice. ABingo seems like something the .NET world needs, so I want to look into porting it.

I made it available through git because that is the de-facto standard distribution method for Rails coders these days, who are the audience I needed to reach with it. If it were consumer-facing, oh yeah, I would have done something much easier from the getgo.

I concur that .NET desperately needs an A/B testing framework. Stack Overflow should have one. Give me their worst .NET engineer and two months -- one for writing A/Boverflow and one for writing tests -- I could increase almost any metric on that site by 10%. What is your worst engineer scheduled to do this month that is more important than that?

That's a question I'd like to ask anybody who isn't A/B testing yet. Seriously. What keeps you so busy that you can't adopt a low-risk, battle-tested, low-investment strategy with stupendously scaling returns like A/B testing? (I can only hope that every company with a web page pulled a Google, built one of these internally, and keeps vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet about it for fear of letting people know how easy it is.)

Unfortunately, my worst (and only) engineer is me, and he's busy trying to get FairTutor.com launched by working out how to store dates as UTC and display them correctly in local time zones so that students in LA can schedule lessons with a teacher in Quito and not show up 3 hours late to class.

Once that's done (or instead of it because frankly this is more fun), we'll see about getting a drop-in AB component built for ASP.NET too.

If you use Mercurial, you can use hg-git to talk to git repos without Git.

http://hg-git.github.com/

I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for Subversion.

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