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Comment on McDonald’s Response to Ammonia in their Meat by Villaney

Villaney — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:43:54 +0000

Say whatever you want me and my family will never eat at McDonalds.

Comment on Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu by mrichman

mrichman — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:14:58 +0000

Issues or questions about Gitosis should be directed here: https://github.com/res0nat0r/g...

Comment on Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu by tenach

tenach — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:19:00 +0000

I am getting a traceback error and am not sure what to do with it: http://tlms.pastebin.com/pQi0v... What would your suggestions be? I have triple-checked to make sure I am following everything properly.

Thank you much for your help.

Comment on Rails Custom Authentication using Devise, DataMapper, and a Legacy Database by Reed G. Law

Reed G. Law — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:15:34 +0000

Thanks! This helped me solve my problem: http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Comment on Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu by Jdoerring

Jdoerring — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:52:35 +0000

I posed this on the scie.nti.st article but they have a comment list a mile long so here it is again.

I'd like to add on one thing that I ran into when installing Git and Gitosis on my Ubuntu 10.10 server which I installed with encrypted home directories.

When I was configuring my server for SSH, I changed my sshd_config to include this entry:
AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/.ssh/%u/authorized_keys

From this you can see that I created a /etc/.ssh directory and a sub directory for each user containing the file authorized_keys. Also, I made the user the owner of their respective folder.

Gitosis uses a post-update hook to update the git user's authorized_keys file to include each of the public keys from the gitosis-admin/keydir. The problem was that the default location that gitosis expected the authorized_keys file to be in was /home/git/.ssh/ but I moved it to /etc/.ssh/git. To remedy this I had to add the following to gitosis.conf:
[gitosis]
ssh-authorized-keys-path = /etc/.ssh/git/authorized_keys

It took me quite a bit of messing around to figure this all out, I hope it will save someone else the pain.

Comment on Publications by Keeping colors consistent in Reporting Services drill-through reports at Philosophlogically Speaking…

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:12:32 +0000

[...] IDictionary. I was in a hurry so I just converted them to an array right quick. Code comes from the Collection Serialization in ASP.NET Web Services article written by Mark Richman. I converted the code from C# to VB.NET to use in the [...]

Comment on Rails Custom Authentication using Devise, DataMapper, and a Legacy Database by Gambi

Gambi — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:43:31 +0000

does this work with rails 2.3.10?

Comment on Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu by Paz

Paz — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:54:18 +0000

Just tried 3 other tutorials that were not clear on copying my public key from client to server and wasted 30mins. Yours got me there in 2 mins. thanks.

Comment on Rails Custom Authentication using Devise, DataMapper, and a Legacy Database by mrichman

mrichman — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:55:15 +0000

Thanks Jared! This worked like a charm. I've updated the blog to reflect your suggestion and given you proper attribution for the find :-) I wish the Devise documentation, or at least the default devise.rb initializer that gets generated would make this setting clearer. I've paraphrased the code comment from the Devise source code in the article.

Comment on Rails Custom Authentication using Devise, DataMapper, and a Legacy Database by jm81

jm81 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:49:41 +0000

Mark, Thanks for posting this! I was the one who suggested the workaround at the end of devise.rb and just realized it's not needed. There's a config option I had forgotten about. Add “config.apply_schema = false” to devise.rb. I just tested it out on an app I have and seems to work fine.

Comment on Rails Custom Authentication using Devise, DataMapper, and a Legacy Database by jm81

jm81 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:42:35 +0000

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by mrichman

mrichman — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:05:55 +0000

Why would you do business with a client who doesn't know what they want? It's okay for them to change their mind, but your response should be a new proposal, not an hourly rate.

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by 12ewfgdb

12ewfgdb — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:20:59 +0000

This is software. It's not like renovating a bathroom where only labor is involved (choose a different tile, pay for the costlier tile, but the labor cost is the same). As long as the client is so so so sure of what he/she wants, the fixed price is a great way to go. But in software, things change (understandably so). If the client want's a change today and another 2 days later that completely contradicts the change requested, what are you going to do? Tell yourself, oh heck, now I have to start all over again, or, I know you're a small business, and you didn't know exactly what you wanted, so you know, I really need to charge hourly to make this work for both you and me.

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by Michael Liberty

Michael Liberty — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:01:02 +0000

I agree and the point I always hear against fixed billing is it isn't flexible.

I think it is, you can easily negotiate reduced/increased costs for the client if they are adding/changing features.

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by Michael Liberty

Michael Liberty — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:59:43 +0000

Agreed. I also think that the big argument against fixed billing is “flexibility” and how people relate that to Agile programming, but there's no reason why you can't negotiate fixed extra costs for new features of changes to existing requests that will take more time.

Comment on Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu by Redmine with GIT Repository Setup on Ubuntu « Ryan Alberts

Redmine with GIT Repository Setup on Ubuntu « Ryan Alberts — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:22:59 +0000

[...] sudo vi ../mods-enabled/proxy.conf For gitosis I used this setup page: http://www.markrichman.com/2008/06/16/installing-git-and-gitosis-on-ubuntu/ Creating users and using gitosis: [...]

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by Why I Always Bill By The Hour | Brent Ozar - Too Much Information

Why I Always Bill By The Hour | Brent Ozar - Too Much Information — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:02:17 +0000

[...] I Always Bill By The Hour Mark Richman (Blog – Twitter) wrote a thought-provoking post about why he never bills by the hour. He uses a fixed-rate, value-based billing system; he works with the client to build an exact [...]

Comment on Why I Never Bill by the Hour by Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:47:48 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing this information has really proven to be helpful. I really enjoy reading easy articles leading straight to the point.

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Origami Lover — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:07 +0000

Good post. I just found this Origami-inspired Twitter icon at Digg, which you can use on your blog if it is running WordPress.

Comment on Evangelizing Yourself by Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:33:05 +0000

Mark, thanks so much for linking to my presentation. Hope it inspires you to put yourself out there even more. Enjoy the adventure!