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Its last trick will be to make us all disappear :D

No one uses Terminal. iTerm ftw ;)

Thanks :)

This post will balance things out, i think...

That is precisely my point in the post: A lot of times the problem itself changes. Not to mention the requirements that management sees as "details" but that, in reality, are complete game changers as far as the system architecture goes.

Just because they say so, it does not make it false ;)

We will have to wait and see :)

I think I would prefer the django template language. Seems like you type a lot less, though I have been mistaken before :)

Is there a way that code could be formatted? :)

Lol, I just noticed you also posted something on fabric. If I seen it I would not have submitted another entry.

One quick note. I think it's a good idea to explain that, since from the command line you are basically calling functions inside the fabfile.py, this allows you to define different environments. Something like:

def env1(): env.some_property = 'hehe'

def env2(): env.some_property = 'haha'

def deploy(): put('/%s/file.prop', '/somewhere_in_the_server/')

If you then run 'fab env1 deploy' you will copy the file under 'hehe' to the server. If you use env2 you will copy the other one. You are basically overriding the env variable. You can do the same to configure different paths for different target servers.

Really cool stuff :D

No worries. I don't take anything personally ;)

Cool. Thanks a bunch :)

Thanks for all the tips, everyone :D

Thanks for the cool explanation. I never really dug into ssh that much, just posting a helper to connect without password ;)

So basically ssh-agent should be always running and you add your key to it (via ssh-add) and you never enter your password again, but the key still is generated with a passphrase? Correct?

Thanks

I know the public key is supposed to be public, hence no point in obscuring. I just got carried away ;)

Thanks for the tip :)

That's always good to know. I was considering removing safari and mail altogether. Thanks. :)

Well, since it's an option that might not be completely clear it might (almost) be considered a hack ;)

Awesome. Didn't think of that one. Thanks :)

I agree. It's not that it's extensively documented; it's that the code is easy enough to hack to one's needs ;)

It's cool to see, in Amsterdam, some people with those music trolleys that play it using punched cards. It shows that technology sticks around for a while longer than one would expect :)

Seems to be up. Just downloaded both and requested a serial number.

Well, my point was more like not having to think a lot about syntax. What about trying some work in the field of automatic tag generation? That would get rid of the problem, if successfully possible, right? ;)

Thanks a million for the info. Really good stuff there :D

Haha, I love your optimism ;)

Well, yeah, I guess posting to as many places as possible is one way to go, but apart from HN, do you suggest any other extremely cool, heavily hyped, news sites, mailing lists, and the such? :)

I think it's a good idea. I wonder, however, if it could be implemented like this:

Send an email to post_tag1_tag2_tag2@posterous.com

I think the (Tags: tag1, tag2, tag3) syntax is a bit harder, though I have no idea if the other one would even be feasible (some clever virtual email address and parsing thing would have to be put in place, I guess).

Agreed, but if you want a designer to take that layout and change it to something else, I'm betting that he will have a really hard time dealing with PHP ;)

True also, of course, no point in being fundamentalist :). In the end it basically depends on what you want; If you want flexibility to change everything in your site in regular intervals, then I wouldn't advise relying on tables a lot :)

About time. Maybe now a lot of people will stop using tables to define the site layout :)

I know it can be a pain to style a website with divs, but putting presentation inside HTML is definitely worse.

I totally disagree. I don't see the point in stopping to write web log entries just because twitter or facebook exist. I do not write on my web log in search of some form of hype. The reason I do write on it, is to serve two purposes: To keep track of stuff that I know I will eventually forget (and it will be extra fun to re-read it later :)), and to communicate some form of information to my friends and family.

Maybe, now that I think of it, it might be more interesting to start storing carrier pigeons or messages inside bottles, hmmmm...