A wondeful tool: A little cumpliment on MagicCarpet

[Sarah Reichelt]

I would like to add my appreciation for Magic Carpet. When updating a
crucial app, the knowledge that you have all your old stacks saved and
annotated so you can easily revert is just priceless.

Thanks Chipp.

Sarah



On 1/26/07, Andre Garzia <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
> 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
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