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Hey, I'm Dima Sabanin and I love programming and I've been doing this since I was 10 years old. For the last 3 years I work with Rails.

I study Zen, I have a family with a small kid. This is my brain dump.

Email: sdmitry@gmail.com

Archive

Mar
8th

Sat

Beta Testers for Deployment Tools We are launching a new tool for Beanstalk. It will allow you to deploy files to a staging and production server from your Subversion repositories. If you want to be part of the VERY small beta…

Mar
5th

Wed

The first Beanstalk design rip-off I noticed a couple incoming links in our account stats for a site called Pointyhack. Usually I check these out to see who reviewed Beanstalk and send out a thanks. Although, when I visited one site…

Feb
25th

Mon

Monday Productivity Boosters

Developing for the web on a Mac is a breeze, thanks to a banch of products like Parallels Desktop, Textmate (and numerous related bundles) and Terminal. Today I want to highlight another 2 great additions to the Mac OS X Leopard wich may make a developer’s life even easier and help getting things done even faster.

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Feb
15th

Fri

Meet my son, Alexander Sabanin! Funny little man :D
Woman feeding the baby is my beautiful wife, who’s the most important women in my life. I love you! Thanks for that gift of life you gave me.

Feb
14th

Thu

Recent Beanstalk outage

We had the chance to fully review the outage last night with our system admin. The main cause of the problem was a limit set in our virtual environment for disk space. After the initial migration period of moving to SoftLayer, everything has been very smooth and the servers have been handling our fast growth very well.

The reason we hit the limit was pretty embarrassing, but I guess it can happen to all of us. We have more than enough storage on our servers, including iSCSI which allows us to…

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Visual Guide to Version Control

We are working on the help and support section for Beanstalk. I came across a great article that visually explains the basics of version control.

A Visual Guide to Version Control

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Feb
9th

Sat

Netbeans for Rails

Netbeans is so fucking great for Rails development that it makes me wanna cry. Helps so much with big projects.

Jan
27th

Sun

Beanstalk logo for Basecamp or Fluid

Randy recently asked for a Beanstalk logo that he could use on Basecamp. This way each commit would be associated with a Beanstalk user and logo. I thought it was a great idea and wanted to make the logo available to everyone. Another thought, you can use it for Fluid as well. View the full entry to see and grab the logo.

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Jan
26th

Sat

Speedy capistrano deployments

# Add this in your deployment recipe
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache