Year: 2011

GitHub Enterprise announced

GitHub – the place to host and manage your source code – announced the release of GitHub Enterprise. GitHub Enterprise is a self-hosted version of GitHub. What I find the most interesting is the pricing.

GitHub Enterprise is priced at $5,000 per 20 users, per year. It comes with everything you need in one tidy package: code browsing, code review, issue tracking, wikis. No extra software to buy, no extra software to install, no extra software to manage.

The target is not on the disk space (understandable, with your own severs) or private repositories, but on the number of developers. $5,000 per 20 developers per year is $250 per developer per year, or about $20 per developer per month. That’s not too much, especially when compared with the salaries paid to the same developers each month. A fraction of the salary.

So, not only GitHub Enterprise is an excellent option for those companies that cannot use third-party hosting for source code, but it is also a Christmas present for those companies that work on a lot of projects. With private repositories, the price of a regular GitHub organizational subscription can go up pretty fast. With GitHub Enterprise you’d be able to have everything in-house for a tiny fee, compared.

It’ll be interesting to see how well this business will go for GitHub. It sounds viable to me. Convenient and not too expensive. With easy OVF-based installation, that would work on many virtual machines (VMware, VirtualBox, etc), with additional features for enterprise integration (LDAP!), I don’t see why not.

Which day is your candidate for the Groundhog Day?

This blog post (in Russian) tells a story of a young woman that really loves the first day of winter, when the first snow falls. The author suggests that if there was a chance, this woman would have chosen the first day of winter to live through again and again, like the character of Phil, played by Bill Murray in the excellent movie “Groundhog Day“.

The author of that story also asks an interesting question.  If you had a choice, which would be the day you’d choose to live through and through, like in that movie.  If you could pick any day at all, which one would that be?

For me personally it is a hard choice indeed.  I love and cherish every day of my life.  Except for, maybe, Mondays.  I’ve had plenty of excellent days over the years and I can’t really pick one of them.  But if I had to, I guess I’d have to go with the 1st of January, the New Year Day.  Why? Well …

I am Russian and Russian celebrate the New Year like nobody else.  It’s one of the biggest holidays in our culture.  We eat, we drink, we have fun, and everybody stays up until very late.  Until early morning even.  1st of January is a public holiday.  No matter which day of the week it is, you don’t need to go to school or work.  Since everyone stayed up late, most people sleep through the morning, waking up in the afternoon.  This is probably the only day when I am not standing out in this regard, when I’m not the only one who loves waking up past midday.

Oh, and then there is food and television.  31st of December is the evening of celebrations.  We prepare lots of food.  We call plenty of guests.  We dress nicely.  We behave.  It’s all nice, but it’s a tiny bit too official and tiring.  On the 1st of January though, it’s totally different.  It’s the relax time.  There is still plenty of food and drinks from yesterday.  Whoever survived the drunk night is not in the mood for any official behavior.  People under-dress, grab food, and spend a lot of time in front of the television watching entertainment shows or movies, taking short naps in between.

By the evening, people, and people I of course mean myself, are often recovered enough to take a short walk.  Time to see friends or relative or visit the nearest pub.  Slight tough upon the yesterday celebration with an attempt to reconstruct the chain of events from a collective memory.  And then early bed time.

I think that year on year, 1st of January is the closest day to a perfect one.  So if I had a choice to live through one day time after time after time, I’d choose that day.  Gladly, of course, I actually do have a chance to do so.  It’s just that I have to wait a year in between.

What day is your candidate for the Groundhog Day?

Chocolate Week at Four Seasons Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus

Chocolate Week – a celebration of chocolate – is scheduled to take place at Four Seasons Hotel (Limassol, Cyprus) for the 6th consecutive year. Here is a quote from this Facebook page:

The Four Seasons “Chocolate Week” at the Colors Cafe is now enjoying its 6th Consecutive year, it has become a landmark event in the diaries of Chocolate lovers, visitors and locals from all over the island. A celebration of all things chocolate, with much to tempt everyone, including chocolate cakes, drinks and many more surprises. This year at “Chocolate Week” expect to find a variety of Chocolate fountains and Chocolate Fondue. Four different types of Chocolate Ice, including Bitter chocolate with caramelized sesame seeds and paprika and our gorgeous homemade pralines which our very own Miss Chocolate will be offering to all Colors patrons. Colors will be buzzing with activity during “Chocolate Week” as it heralds the start of the winter season every year!

If you are a chocolate fan, mark your calendars for November 12 – November 21, 2011.

Via CyBlog.ru.

Day in brief – 2011-11-01

  • New #GoogleReader is being deployed. I got a 'Welcome' screen and now it 'Takes too long'. I can wait, I guess. #
  • Auditors are funny. Suits, ties, notepads, pens. Walking around our office. This is IT. Check. This is marketing. Check. This is .. Check. #
  • I'm not a big fan of the new #GoogleReader design. I feel lost and disoriented. I hope it's just a matter of getting used to. #
  • I'm trying #CakePHP i18n with poEdit. It's not that bad for a small project. On the bigger one I'd be lost, I guess. #
  • @timdetone I've never been a big fan of gettext. It's a powerful system, but it doesn't work that well for web applications. #
  • @timdetone No, it doesn't. My biggest problem with it is that translations are separated from the app admin interface. #
  • @timdetone whatever way you approach translations, it's a nasty business :) #
  • @timdetone There should be one somewhere. So many people have the same problem. Import .pot file, edit, save .po/.mo file. Sounds easy. #
  • #GoogleReader new design boosted my productivity. I'm not reading news and blogs anymore. #