A wondeful tool: A little cumpliment on MagicCarpet

[Andre Garzia]

Hi folks,

as many people in here know, I've lost my HD with all my tools and  
stacks. During the last weeks, most of my work was trying to make my  
old G4 iBook into a development machine since I had erased it and  
allowed my mom to use it as a desktop.

I remember when I first saw Altuits MagicCarpet program, it was  
during RMS in Monterey, I was amazed. Finally a version control  
system that was sane! I always hated CVS and I am not into  
subversion. I became a heavy user of MagicCarpet when I started  
working with the fine monks of Kauai Aadheenam. All our work is  
inside MagicCarpet, lots of projects and files. And we never lost a  
file even when doing rollbacks and stuff. Sometime ago, I migrated  
most of my code to my own MagicCarpet repository on my server  
somewhere in Texas, I moved things there as a backup and also so I  
could work away from my computer, for example, using an U3 thumbdrive  
at the university.

My machine is still at apple, now waiting replacement cdrom drive  
before they try to see if the HD is recoverable or not (I won't allow  
them to replace that HD) but most of my work is safe. I was just a  
matter of reinstalling Rev in the G4, copying my plugins and settings  
from the thumbdrive and launching magiccarpet... couple hours later,  
all my current source was back in here...

The point is, If it was not MagicCarpet, then I would not be doing  
backups of my stuff in remote servers. MagicCarpet has it all:
* it works accross networks, volumes, FTP, HTTP.
* It has a simple interface with simple useful options, very easy to  
learn.
* It works from inside Revolution IDE, no tedious task of using an  
external program. Your topstack is a button away from remote backup.

Chipp, Chris and Altuit have given us so many wonderful tools during  
the last years, I make daily use of many of them, altBrowser,  
altSQLite3, MagicCarpet, altSplash.

This is just a simple thank you message from a very pleased user and  
also a notice for readers here that don't know about MagicCarpet to  
take a look into it. It's a very nice tool and can save lots of  
screams and cries on your side. It also is very pleasant to work in  
teams.

http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/MagicCarpetCover/default.htm

Cheers
andre