Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by bgraves » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 5:50 PM UTC

Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
blog.fogcreek.com

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by bgraves » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:27 PM UTC

More information on the background of webputty [1] and why it was open-sourced [2]

[1] http://tghw.com/blog/lean-development-zero-to-launch-in-six-...

[2] http://blog.fogcreek.com/whats-up-with-webputty/?fccmp=webpu...

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by tghw » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:35 PM UTC

WebPutty dev here. Feel free to shoot us any questions here on HN or on twitter @webputty.

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by ra3don92 » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

This looks great, I wasn't aware this existed. Can anyone share some similar tools they use to speed up that Ctrl+S and changing between windows process that happens when editing CSS?

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by mikecaron » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:39 PM UTC

Isn't that gecko the Notepad++ icon?

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/assets/img/logo-green-orange.pn...

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by eggbrain » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

mikecaron wrote: post #5

Isn't that gecko the Notepad++ icon? http://notepad-plus-plus.org/assets/img/logo-green-orange.pn...

I was surprised as well to see that, they addressed that here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787082

Apparently 259 days wasn't long enough to find a replacement ;)

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by rogerbinns » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:43 PM UTC

tghw wrote: post #3

WebPutty dev here. Feel free to shoot us any questions here on HN or on twitter @webputty.

The most annoying thing is the name. Putty is a well known SSH client and terminal emulator. On seeing the name WebPutty I'd believed Putty had been ported to a web interface.

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by web_chops » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:43 PM UTC

ra3don92 wrote: post #4

This looks great, I wasn't aware this existed. Can anyone share some similar tools they use to speed up that Ctrl+S and changing between windows process that happens when editing CSS?

Not for editing the whole website, but we have launched a web widget editor recently (http://designduke.com). You can edit individual HTML widgets like buttons, input boxes, forms etc :)

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by bgraves » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:44 PM UTC

mikecaron wrote: post #5

Isn't that gecko the Notepad++ icon? http://notepad-plus-plus.org/assets/img/logo-green-orange.pn...

Robert Hayes designed the icon for notepad++[1] Looks like FogCreek had explicit permission to use the icon [2]

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/33...

[2] https://github.com/FogCreek/WebPutty/

Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

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Post by tghw » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 6:45 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #7

tghw wrote: post #3

WebPutty dev here. Feel free to shoot us any questions here on HN or on twitter @webputty.

The most annoying thing is the name. Putty is a well known SSH client and terminal emulator. On seeing the name WebPutty I'd believed Putty had been ported to a web interface.

That's not a question. :)