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• Dandelion: Git Deployment over FTP

  May 4th, 2012 at 3:10pm | No Comments

  Dandelion is an awesome deployment tool I adopted recently. When you run dandelion deploy from the command line, it automatically determines what has changed in your Git repository since the last deploy and adds, updates, or deletes just those files over FTP, SFTP, or Amazon S3. Kudos to Scott Nelson for his awesome work on this. Packaged as ... read more »

  Tags: deployment • Git • programming • Ruby • software • web-development

• Founder Inner Conflict: Engineer vs. Entrepreneur

  February 22nd, 2012 at 11:27am | No Comments

  When working on a project, I constantly find myself at odds with…myself. It’s a battle between the engineer in me wanting to write ideal code and the entrepreneur in me who just wants it working. The engineer wants ideal code, while the entrepreneur is fine with it being hacked together as long as it works ... read more »

  Tags: Business • psychology • startup • web-development

• Podcamp Halifax 2012: WordPress Workshop

  January 22nd, 2012 at 9:04am | No Comments

  I’m running the following session at the Podcamp Halifax unconference today: WordPress Workshop After a 5 min intro including what’s new in the latest release of WordPress (and what’s coming in the next version), I’ll ask attendees what they’d like to hear. Do you want me to show you how to install WordPress? Maybe you’d ... read more »

  Tags: conference • podcamphalifax • podcamphfx • speaking • unconference • web-design • web-development • WordPress • workshop