I used to respect Spolsky. Now I see an awesomeface on the web page of one of his products. He's dead to me.
Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
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Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#12Isn'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 ;)
It was never a particularly high priority, especially once we decided to release it to the community.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#13WebPutty 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.
I disagree. Prefixing names with "Web" is common but not pervasive. "Putty" is just an English word. BTW the SSH client is actually called PuTTY.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#14WebPutty 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.
Same here. Would have just upvoted, but upvote counts aren't visible and people are replying to disagree.
I figured this was a web-based SSH terminal, which is pretty cool. Adding "Web" prefix to a popular product's name pretty clearly implies a web port.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#15This 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?
I just play with Chrome's dev tools and then copy the changes I made to CSS.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
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Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#17Thanks for open-sourcing it.
I wanted to use it but couldn't find a way to use a tool that didn't play with source control. It didn't work for sites too simple to need Git because it only hosted CSS and thus made the project too complex.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#18This 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 :)
Neat! I would like to point out that the intro text right under the header is a bit hard to read with that blue background.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#19This is just yet one more example how Fog Creek, as a company, consistently demonstrates that they are a classy bunch of guys.
They treat their customers and developers well, Joel has contributed quite a bit of knowledge to the startup community, and on top of that, open-sourcing a dead product so that its fans can keep it going should they want to.
Re: Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. :)
OK, i'll bite. How did the product get the name, WebPutty?
No need to answer if this question is wasting useful development time.