Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Results Are In…

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Richard Nichols

And as it turns out, Linode is far, far faster as well as being more consistent for the hosting of this site. Take a look at the graphs, the first was captured from this site in the last couple of … Continue reading →

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Move to Linode Complete!

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Richard Nichols

The blog is now happily running on my linode instance! I had previously been hosting the blog on Dreamhost, and had been pretty happy with the service. Recently though, I signed up for a free Pingdom account. Pingdom is a … Continue reading →

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1 Minute Guide – Installing Redmine on Windows

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Richard Nichols

Redmine is a fantastic Issue Tracking (defects and enhancements) web application written in Ruby on Rails. I’ve been using it for quite a while, and it’s a good looking, simple but powerful defect management tool with a bunch of value-add … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | Tagged guides, open-source, rails, redmine, ruby, windows | 28 Comments

markdown-doclet Updated to v2

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Richard Nichols

I’ve just posted a new release of markdown-doclet on google code. This version fixes the {@link ClassNameEtc} Javadoc notation, which was broken due to the case-sensitivity of the markdown library. It is highly recommended to upgrade to the new version

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