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Cracked 100+ GitHub commits in one day

Behold the power of File Tracker : I knew with File Tracker at my disposal and over 75 original repos that I would someday crack the rather difficult challenge of making 100 commits in a single day. Even with the built-in feature of commit collapsing within File Tracker, it happened today. File Tracker is my semi-secret weapon for paying down massive amounts of technical debt across all the systems I maintain merely with the click of a few buttons. It's the only bulk visual diff/merge tool in existence and it is fantastic software that has blazing fast performance. Of course, I'm biased because I wrote it but look at that beautiful picture above. The previous record before today was 53 commits in a single day. Here's a screenshot of the File Tracker synchronization run that broke through the "100 legitimate commits in a single day by a single person" barrier: I'm kind of wishing there was a badges/achievements system on GitHub. You too can h

Adventuring deeply into software serial numbers

Be sure to check out the high-performance open source CubicleSoft License Server on GitHub, which generates serial numbers as described in this post. It's a complete, turnkey solution for creating and managing sellable software licenses. Let's say you just finished making a really great piece of software and are ready to sell it to other people. But first, you "need" to "protect" your hard-earned investment. I put those two words in quotes because we should first identify our audience: Does your audience consist of people who are honest and upright and ethical? If they aren't those things, then no amount of effort you put into the software will make them that way. The variety of anti-piracy techniques in use today only work effectively against casual piracy. That is, the average person who might be mildly predisposed to steal your work and pass it around the office or share it with friends either not realizing they are stealing or not necessa