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Fogcreek is shutting down webputty.net and has pushed the source code to github

by bgraves on 4/5/12, 5:50 PM with 29 comments

  • by donw on 4/5/12, 7:26 PM

    This is just yet one more example how Fog Creek, as a company, consistently demonstrates that they are a classy bunch of guys.

    They treat their customers and developers well, Joel has contributed quite a bit of knowledge to the startup community, and on top of that, open-sourcing a dead product so that its fans can keep it going should they want to.

  • by tghw on 4/5/12, 6:35 PM

    WebPutty dev here. Feel free to shoot us any questions here on HN or on twitter @webputty.

  • by bgraves on 4/5/12, 6:27 PM

    More information on the background of webputty [1] and why it was open-sourced [2]

    [1] http://tghw.com/blog/lean-development-zero-to-launch-in-six-...

    [2] http://blog.fogcreek.com/whats-up-with-webputty/?fccmp=webpu...

  • by mikecaron on 4/5/12, 6:39 PM

  • by 1123581321 on 4/5/12, 6:57 PM

    Thanks for open-sourcing it.

    I wanted to use it but couldn't find a way to use a tool that didn't play with source control. It didn't work for sites too simple to need Git because it only hosted CSS and thus made the project too complex.

  • by ra3don92 on 4/5/12, 6:36 PM

    This looks great, I wasn't aware this existed. Can anyone share some similar tools they use to speed up that Ctrl+S and changing between windows process that happens when editing CSS?

  • by ElliotH on 4/5/12, 8:43 PM

    A pity, I use this frequently, all my sites use this for CSS simply because they're small and make small style fixes easy.