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gitorious.org - the free open source hosting service (came first) gitorious.com - the commercial company behind it (came later) getgitorious.com - official doc, starting point etc (recently added as a common starting point)

Thanks for that. BTW our new official home page can be found at http://getgitorious.com :)

It used to be, but now you can simply use the automated installer: http://getgitorious.com/installer

mattdebord and estel: I'm one of the core Gitorious committers. What specifically did you find messy? The initial setup or GUI/UX? Honest question, as we're constantly trying to prioritize based on the painpoints of users. :)

BTW we've recently addressed the complicated manual setup with a new, automated installer that gets you set up within 30 minutes: http://getgitorious.com/installer

Also, a new and improved UI is due to arrive in Gitorious soon: http://blog.gitorious.org/2012/08/21/sexy-looking-repositori...

All feedback is very welcome.

Exact same reasons here. I love being able to suspend, resume and clone VM dev environments, and there's plenty of OS X software I really don't want to give up outside of dev work (Keynote, Sparrow, Reeder, Final cut, Pixelmator, etc..)

Agree on Vagrant, great for headless deployment/testing workflows.

I was on a 11" Air until last week, transitioned to a 13" Macbook Pro this weekend. Performance was a bit sluggish when running a full Ubuntu desktop inside a VM on the Air, but feels snappy and great on the MBP.

My setup is just a basic Ubuntu desktop install inside VirtualBox (with Vbox guest additions installed). Haven't noticed any particular problems with the gfx support, but then my Ubuntu desktop is fairly basic - I only need an Emacs frame, Chrome and few terminals panes to do most of my day to day work.

I also use Vagrant to create, suspend, resume and destroy VMs when I just need something headless to deploy and test our product to.

I can relate to the OP: I like OSX for general work, but prefer Linux for programming workflow and tooling (mainly because of the debian package system). My solution from now on is to do my dev work inside a Linux VM (through Virtualbox). Seems to work well. Would love to see others experiences with similar setups, anyone else going a similar route?

I use the "ultimate" model (blank keys) just fine with my Mac Mini and MacBook Air, no issues.

I'm using the Das Keyboard Ultimate at home. Have played a few pc games (both FPS and RTS games) without any issues.

http://railsplayground.com specializes in RoR hosting - they offer both shared hosting, vps and dedicated servers. Extremely rapid and competent service.

I've used them for both my startup and some smaller personal projects over the last 10 months, very satisfied so far.

Found my Better Half. Fathered my daughter. Built v.1 of http://thoughtmuse.com singlehandedly on nights and weekends, in under five months (as estimated).

I record quick thoughts with pen and paper on a small pad I carry with me everywhere.

For more intensive work I use mindmapping. Either on whiteboard, or using http://thoughtmuse.com (disclaimer: I'm the founder of ThoughtMuse)

Javascript: Start with Douglas Crockfords "Javascript: The Good Parts". Excellent, terse primer on safe Javascript development.

Startups: Read content by people like Peter Graham, Joel Spolsky, Rob Walling, Guy Kawasaki, Bob Walsh, Andy Brice - just to mention a few of my personal faves. Skim around, there's lots of great free content out there on software startups!

Good point, will definately look at adding some more hints/teasers of other stuff that can be done.

I'm also planning on producing some good content (articles and screencasts) on what you can do with mindmapping both in general, and with ThoughtMuse specifically.

Cheer up - Paul Grahams worldview isn't the only one out there.

Do some reading on 'mISV' companies. Google Bob Walsh, Erik Sink, Rob Walling, Andy Brice and Patrick McKenzie - all of whom have written excellent material about building viable, bootstrapped, part-time software businesses.

Also, see this excellent talk by DHH on alternatives to the classical 'balls out, big risk/reward' startup scenario:

http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...

Good luck!

(I'm in the same boat; currently only a few weeks from launching my first product.)

I concur. I also use Spring at my dayjob, without the problems the OP describes.

Spring is really useful for setting up the underlying infrastructure/plumbing/cross cutting concerns of a system - however, you don't have to use it for all your domain logic too. Don't drink the dependency injection cool-aid. :)

I like to use mindmaps for planning and concept work like this.

Freemind is a good open source mindmap editor for the desktop.

Or you could try my online, browser-based mindmap app. http://thoughtmuse.com ;)