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Re: Mirror of _why's projects

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Interesting; even though all repositories have been wiped from _why's Github accounts, the hpricot wiki is still alive: http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot I hope it stays that way, I wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it just by looking at the method definitions.

As is the wiki for Shoes (http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes)... I don't know if they were forgotten, or this was on purpose to help people who were going to keep the projects alive.

Re: Mirror of _why's projects

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I'm glad we have the code; fortunately most of it was in git. (Wasn't it Torvalds who claimed his method of backup was to release his code and let other people mirror it for free?)

But... do we have the writing?

If this is an elaborate practical joke designed to make me really glad that I own a dead-trees version of Nobody Knows Shoes and that I physically printed out a copy of the Poignant Guide... it's working really well.

Also, this isn't the kind of press I'd like to see for github... but, man, is this a clear demonstration of why DVCS rocks.

Re: Mirror of _why's projects

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Interesting; even though all repositories have been wiped from _why's Github accounts, the hpricot wiki is still alive: http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot I hope it stays that way, I wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it just by looking at the method definitions.

The Camping page is alive still, too. http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.html

Re: Mirror of _why's projects

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Does anyone have a copy of the code for Try Ruby? It was at http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/tryruby/trunk

I'd really love to find this too.

Thirded. I was going to show my brother this at the end of the summer, and I'd hate to find it gone.
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