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MacHeist3 — 12 Mac Apps for 39$

Once a year the MacHeist Team offers a nice bundle of Mac applications for a small price—this year’s bundle consists of iSale, Picturesque, SousChef, World Of Goo, PhoneView, LittleSnapper, Acorn, Kinemac, WireTap Studio, BoinxTV, The Hit List and Espresso.

I had already planned to purchase LittleSnapper a while ago—it’s 39$ on its own, so by purchasing [...]


Deploying Rails apps with Beanstalk and Passenger

In my early Ruby on Rails days, each time I wanted to deploy a new version of an application on the server, I had to update the code from SVN, create new symlinks, […] and restart a bunch of Mongrels.

Command line work. DRY?
Capistrano took over, which made the whole process a lot easier. Deploying now [...]


Silverback Goodies — Thanks Clearleft!

A few months ago, I’ve been working on a project in a different area than what I normally do. Together with two other guys we localised Clearleft’s usability testing software Silverback and created a German version.
Thanks to the detailed instructions Andy sent us the project didn’t take too much time actually working (though it did [...]