I recently posted my top 5 uses for Capistrano over at Helicoid Insider—including juicy code snippets!
I like Capistrano a lot. It’s now doing all kinds of things to ease my workflow, from backing up servers to providing me with detailed signup statistics for each of my web apps. Whilst I’m still the only developer designing and building 4 successful web apps I need all the help I can get, so I’ve naturally cobbled together a range of software techniques to help….
Here’s an idea I’ve been playing with today: Captor, a GUI for Capistrano management. It’s a very rough prototype right now.
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I visited the Future of Web Apps conference last Thursday and Friday in London. The talks were by large excellent, and the speakers were personable and gave detailed answers to questions. Talks were split into Business and Developer, which made choosing difficult for me because I’m involved in both. Videos of all the talks are here: All FOWA 08 Videos
Kevin’s talk was given in a more …
This is a summary of the talks I went to at the Future of Web Apps on the second day of the conference. Read the first part here: FOWA 08: Day 1 Talks
Tim changed his talk to one about how to survive in the current economic climate. He basically described my career (I graduated in 2001 – during the dot com crash) so I felt some encouragement from his ideas.
One of the great things about the Future of Web Apps expo was how polite the speakers were. I caught up with a few during the conference and in the parties afterwards. Simon and I had a chat with Alvin Woon from Plurk (who likes his beers apparently), the guys from Swirrl, the people from Meebo and PhoneFromHere.
I also wandered around the Friday night party weeding out the hackers from the Diggnation fans, thankful to find fellow Ruby and …
