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This is why I created http://ansible.github.com

Pretty much. If folks have enough programming experience with other languages, it's easy to write Perl that looks more like those other languages, but unfortunately the moment a de…

Pretty sure they meant Campari, though choosing to put that in a flask is kind of weird.

I had assumed this "technical cofounder" thing was a West Coast thing anyway :)

Warning -- This article posts a longwinded first person account and finally ends with "this scenario is purely hypothetical". So it sounds like it is talking about a security vulne…

Key lines: "Somebody please look at the diff. Thats a simple 3 line code addition. I agree to you @torvalds but you could have excused this time :)" AND: "By the way, its quite fun…

I believe you used to be able to click on the "forks" and "watchers" button to see who is forked or watching. Now the button defaults to "unwatch" when looking at the project page.…

Chef requires Ruby programming. Puppet doesn't, but the core is obviously Ruby, and you extend it using Ruby. You may possibly like my new project: http://ansible.github.com The co…

Yep, this is a pretty lame ranking system. Projects are given more points the more people are registered in them with accounts on the system. Compare this with what Ohloh does, whe…

If folks are wanting to check this out, my work build some VMware appliances for it. You should be able to get the server running in just a few minutes. Anyway, in case it's useful…

I find the gh_pages branch confusing too -- the idea that a branch doesn't contain something related to the other branches feels weird. What I've found is it's easier to create a f…

Maybe it's just me, but using short lived topic/feature branches and squash merges seems much easier than remembering all of these steps to "fix up" all these things. I think it be…

Cool. Here's another take on this, which doesn't produce quite as nice output, but produces some different stats and is Ruby based and a bit more objecty (if that matters). It does…