Want to see what I’m working on? Follow me on Github…
If you want to track what I’m working on for programming projects these days, the best place to go is my Github account at: http://github.com/danyork If you are also a Github user (and accounts are...
View ArticleUsing Git Submodules (to build a USB key distro, in this case)
As noted previously, I’m a huge fan of git and an avid user of Github. Given that, I appreciate learning new ways to do cool things with git. Here was a new one to me – using git “submodules” to build...
View ArticleVideo Book Review: Pragmatic Guide to Git
Last night I recorded a new episode of my Emerging Tech Talk video podcast (as part of my One Day of Content Creation) where I reviewed the Pragmatic Guide to Git written by Travis Swicegood and...
View ArticleGit Immersion – A New Tutorial Site About Git
Want to learn more about the Git version control system? I recently was pointed to a new site called Git Immersion that provides some great, simple, step-by-step tutorials to get you started with using...
View ArticleNodeFu – Free Hosting of Your Node.JS Apps In The Cloud!
Have you been experimenting with Node.JS (as I have) and wished you had a place to host your Node.js apps? If so, you may want to check out NodeFu.com, a new hosting service that just launched today....
View ArticleGreg Bayer: How to Move Files From One Git Repo To Another While Preserving...
By way of a Hacker News post, I learned of this great post by Greg Bayer: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History I’ve actually had a couple of cases where I’ve wanted to...
View ArticleGoogle Code Now Supports Git for Hosted Projects
Being a big fan of Git for version control, I was very pleased to see the announcement last week that projects hosted at Google Code can now use git in addition to subversion and mercurial (see also...
View ArticleDulwich – a native python way to access Git repositories
Ever wanted to manipulate Git repositories directly in python? Well, okay… I haven’t really myself, but in writing about Google Code’s support for git yesterday, I noticed that they are using Dulwich,...
View ArticleWant To Help Guide Git’s Development? Take the 2011 Git Users’s Survey!
Do you use the git version control system? If so, do you wish it worked a bit differently? Or did you find it hard to use in some way? If you don’t, did you try to start using it and found it difficult...
View ArticleAmusing Video Tutorial: Let’s Suck at Github Together
If you want to learn more about using git and Github, or are a fan/user of git/Github (as I am) and want to pass along a video tutorial for others to see, you may enjoy this episode from Chris Coyier...
View ArticleNew Github for Mac 1.1 Release Nov 23rd…
I just noticed yesterday that a new version of Github for Mac was released on November 23rd. The blog post about the 1.1 release highlights the major changes as: The “Changes” view has been completely...
View ArticleO’Reilly Offers 50% Off On Git Ebook And Videos Through Feb 8th
Being a huge fan of the git version control system, I was pleased to see that O’Reilly is offering 50% off on their git-related videos and ebook. I haven’t seen the videos, but the “Version Control...
View ArticleContrasting Mercurial vs Git: Two Opposing Blog Posts
Which should you use for a distributed version control system (DVCS) – git or mercurial? That was the question taken up recently by two opposing blog posts on Atlassian’s blog: Mercurial vs git: Why...
View ArticleFun Tool To Learn More About Git Branching And Merging
Want to learn more about how to work with branches in git? Confused about what “git rebase” does? By way of a post on Google+ I learned about this great tutorial site at:...
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