You’ve probably noticed the
‘10% off everything within our borders’
Christmas sale the States are having.
When you combine that with the price difference between US and UK shops,
it’s tempting to import stuff (although customs are trying hard to dissuade me ).
Luckily there no duty on bytes (give them time) . So it’s a good time to get non-corporeal booty (and I don’t mean Aaliyah).
(NB: I have these already – I’m not fishing (although I wouldn’t say no to a container if you’re going to the bar).
The final version of the DRM-free 2nd edition PragProg Rails PDF
has dropped.
Unlike the book, it gets regular errata updates, is searchable and you can download the code. It’s about 12 pounds.
If you want to clear out a houseful of servers, Textdrive shared hosting is less than a pound a week if you buy a year up front.
I’ve been with them over a year now
and it’s been really good. Last winter the host I was on was a bit flaky, but it’s been fine since. I got the $99/year deal in August and have had 0 issues that weren’t of my own making since.
They’ve also said that anyone who has one of:
- $15/month of Strongspace (5Gb of https/ssh/rsync-able disk, 5 users)
- $15/month of Joyent Connector (groupware, 5 users )
- $15/month of the shared hosting I just mentioned
will be automatically upgraded in the New Year to ‘Joyent Core’ – which is all the above for $15/month.
I’m with jwz on groupware , but Strongspace uses
ZFS (Thumpers) for storage , so
I’ll trust it more than some other NAS I could mention .
If it sounds worth having, get a month of shared ($12) before shelling out for a year – davie is solid, but some shared boxes are more equal than others .
(Textdrive are actually doing a referral scheme, so in theory I could pimp them out, but it’s too much of a pain in the arse to get the dollars over here (they pay in bushels of straw or something)).