Simple Central Git Repository

Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by Ash Christopher.

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I have a new project that I am starting, and instead of using the familiar subversion for source control, I figured this was a great time to check out Git. An added bonus is we are looking at switching over to it at work – two birds.
The first thing you need to do is install [...]

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The API is the Application

Posted on 20. Oct, 2008 by Ash Christopher.

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“web servers can be clustered such that the architecture can be horizontally scaled with money. You can fix scaling issues by throwing hardware at it.“

The API, or Application Programming Interface, in simple terms, is a set of libraries which can be called which provide linked or shared functionality. In the past, this API was available [...]

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PostRank Python API

Posted on 14. Jul, 2008 by Ash Christopher.

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What is PostRank?
PostRank is a scoring system developed by AideRSS to rank any kind of online content, such as RSS feed items, blog posts, articles, or news stories. PostRank is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be.
Public-facing RESTful API’s are becoming more [...]

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fcgi and mod_fcgid on CentOS4

Posted on 09. Mar, 2008 by Ash Christopher.

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I decided recently that I wanted to be able to run Ruby on Rails applications from my webserver. For those who don’t know me, RPM database integrity is a huge issue for me (I do not just install from source on my server!).
Since I had some time this weekend, I decided it was about time [...]

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