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Linux Format

If you’ve used SVN, or CVS and then a combination of zips, tars and all manner of methods of backing up, sharing, collaborating – or trying to collaborate – can understand what drove Linux Torvalds to give in and write his own.

According to the manual, git is “the stupid content tracker”. The naming seems to be deliberately illusive – according to the manual, anything from the acronym for “global information tracker” to “goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t”: when it breaks.

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Linux Journal

For most programmers, deployment is an area that could do with a touch of laziness. Deploying to a cluster – or even one machine – can be repetitive and tiring.

Enter Capistrano, a Ruby deployment tool that makes the task of deploying an application to servers easier but running defined tasks for you on the remote servers.

Linux Magazine

I have lost many days, weeks, possibly even months to JavaScript. The rise of JavaScript frameworks (prototype, mootools etc) over the past couple of years, and their increasing stability has helped. GWT looks like the next evolution in JavaScript development – instead of writing in JavaScript, write in Java.

Linux Pro Magazine, June 2009

“Running sites on EC2 is easy, but really making use of the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing requires a new approach.