Camping Free Ruby Hosting update and question

2012-08-30 Thread David C gurugeek
Hello! Just a short update regarding the free hosting (I hope this is not too annoying but I received several emails from uses that saw this on the list so it could be interesting): we have now updated the system with more RAM and solid state drives. We have also removed the invitation key so

Re: Camping Free Ruby Hosting update and question

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of the second and third server? Is it for redundancy? If I were running free hosting I'd be cautious of such things as I wouldn't want to give the users the impression I was going to be completely committed to keeping it online forever and having

Re: Camping Free Ruby Hosting update and question

2012-08-30 Thread David C gurugeek
Thank you Jenna.. an excellent point as always ! I agree that I wouldn't want to give any impression that this service should replace any paid hosting. So I think that a simple daily backup would suffice to guarantee any issue. We have a forum at http://dotgeek.org so I think we will use that

_why documentary

2012-08-30 Thread Kevin Triplett
Hi all, I'm producing a short documentary on Why The Lucky Stiff which will be shown at RubyConf in Denver. I'd love to include details about camping in the film. If any core contributors or developers live in the Austin or Seattle areas and would like to participate, I'd greatly appreciate a

camping programming competition ?

2012-08-30 Thread David C gurugeek
Thanks to Jenna for the valuable feedback. Posting now under a separate topic to brainstorm ideas for a camping programming competition/contest :) What needs to be decided: a) Theme and Jury The theme options are to give something to code within a certain amount of time e.g. x days to

Re: _why documentary

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
One more thing - the text in the trailer misspells Why's name several times. Here are the preferred rules for naming him in writing, as told by Why: - Why The Lucky Stiff or why the lucky stiff - but never Why the lucky stiff or Why the Lucky Stiff - Why (for short, always capitalised like

Re: Camping-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 7

2012-08-30 Thread Kevin Triplett
Thanks for the encouragement and feedback, Jenna. I had no idea I misspelled his name but was aware of the two acceptable spellings (Why The Lucky Stiff and _why) -- must have made the mistake early in the project. I'll certainly expunge the defects and flog the wrongdoers. If there's anyone

Re: Camping-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 7

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
I'm in the inner sydney suburbs (terrace houses and all that), but Judofyr is over in Norway! Judofyr is probably the main contributor to camping in recent years - I haven't committed much code to the actual camping software, but I did do the web design everyone seems to hate at