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I love seeing non-code Gists. Anyone else have a great recipe they&#8217;d like to share? Post &#8216;em in the comments!</p> mojombo tag:github.com,2008:Post/335 2009-02-03T14:41:00-08:00 2009-02-03T14:41:10-08:00 <p>What&#8217;s Emoji? According to this <a href="https://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars">Ars Technica article</a>, &#8220;Emoji icons offer a wide range of pre-built little pictures that add a little visual splash to your messaging.&#8221;</p> <div align="center"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090203-b8es9b5ftp4i8ay922m7ihrum5.png"/></a></div> <p>If you&#8217;re interested in Emoji support on your iPhone, the app is hosted <a href="https://github.com/ars/freemoji">on GitHub</a>.</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/334 2009-02-03T14:06:07-08:00 2009-02-03T14:12:55-08:00 <p><a href="https://github.com/judofyr">judofyr</a> has created a simple project called <a href="https://judofyr.github.com/grancher/">Grancher</a> which helps convert directories got git branches. It&#8217;s perfect for <a href="https://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a>.</p> <p>Check out the <a href="https://github.com/judofyr/grancher">repo</a> or <a href="https://judofyr.net/posts/copy-folders-to-a-branch.html">blog post</a>. Thanks Magnus!</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/333 2009-02-03T13:07:29-08:00 2009-02-03T13:48:29-08:00 <p><a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/">eg</a> is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (&#8220;SVN is good enough.&#8221;) Know someone who would love to use GitHub but can&#8217;t seem to find the time to learn Git? eg is your answer.</p> <p>Start with the <a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/git-for-svn-users.html">Easy Git for <span class="caps">SVN</span> Users</a> chart.</p> <div align="center"><a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/git-for-svn-users.html"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090203-dy4kh3b2wh82uwuwdxyhf6fwjc.png"/></a></div> <p>Then move to the <a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/documentation/">eg cheat sheet</a>:</p> <noscript> <pre> Creating repositories eg clone Clone a repository into a new directory eg init Create a new repository Obtaining information about changes, history, &#38; state eg diff Show changes to file contents eg log Show history of recorded changes eg status Summarize current changes Making, undoing, or recording changes eg commit Record changes locally eg mv Move or rename files (or directories or symlinks) eg stage Mark content in files as being ready for commit Managing branches eg branch List, create, or delete branches eg merge Join two or more development histories (branches) together eg switch Switch the working copy to another branch Collaboration eg pull Get updates from another repository and merge them eg push Push local commits to a published repository Time saving commands eg bisect Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search eg stash Save and revert local changes, or apply stashed changes Additional help: eg help COMMAND Get more help on COMMAND. eg help --all List more commands (not really all) eg help topic List specialized help topics. </pre> </noscript> <script src="https://gist.github.com/57757.js"></script> <p>Committing works similar to <span class="caps">SVN</span> but tries to educate you on the idea of the staging area.</p> <pre> $ eg commit Aborting: You have new unknown files present and it is not clear whether they should be committed. Run 'eg help commit' for details. New unknown files: info.txt </pre> <p>Install it:</p> <noscript> <pre> cd /usr/bin &#38;&#38; sudo wget &lt;a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/download/0.97/eg"&gt;https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/download/0.97/eg&lt;/a&gt; &#38;&#38; sudo chmod 755 eg &#38;&#38; cd - </pre> </noscript> <script src="https://gist.github.com/57754.js"></script> <p><a href="https://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/download/">Download eg</a>.</p> <p>It&#8217;s not Subversion, but it&#8217;s a step in the Git direction.</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/332 2009-02-02T12:54:32-08:00 2009-02-02T12:54:48-08:00 <p>Now a permanent fixture on my jacket.</p> <div align="center"><a href="https://www.nerdmeritbadges.com"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090202-buuwtc4xeh9jxynwwgdjj3s3b6.jpg"/></a></div> <p><a href="https://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/">Get yours</a>.</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/331 2009-02-02T12:42:07-08:00 2009-02-02T12:48:05-08:00 <p>The unstoppable <a href="https://github.com/drnic">Dr Nic</a> has just dropped another amazing piece of software in our laps. This time it&#8217;s <a href="https://github.com/drnic/choctop">ChocTop</a>, and it&#8217;s hosted right here on GitHub. From the <span class="caps">README</span>:</p> <blockquote> Package up your <span class="caps">OS X</span>/Cocoa applications into Custom DMGs, generate Sparkle <span class="caps">XML</span>, and upload. Instead of hours, its only 30 seconds to release each new version of an application. <p>Build and deploy tools for Cocoa apps using Sparkle for distributions and upgrades; it’s like Hoe but for Cocoa apps.</p> The main feature is a powerful rake task &#8220;rake appcast&#8221; which builds a release of your application, creates a <span class="caps">DMG</span> package, generates a Sparkle <span class="caps">XML</span> file, and posts the package and <span class="caps">XML</span> file to your remote host via rsync. </blockquote> <p>If you&#8217;re a Cocoa developer and this sounds like a sweet solution to a problem you have, check out Dr Nic&#8217;s <a href="https://drnicwilliams.com/2009/02/03/choctop-packaging-and-deployment-of-cocoa-applications/">detailed post and screencast about ChocTop</a>.</p> mojombo tag:github.com,2008:Post/330 2009-01-30T14:51:36-08:00 2009-01-30T14:51:53-08:00 <p>From <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/01/30/clicktohosey">Daring Fireball</a>:</p> <blockquote> One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back to one another. </blockquote> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/329 2009-01-30T14:20:30-08:00 2009-01-30T14:23:58-08:00 <p>I just learned this morning that my favorite iPhone Twitter client, <a href="https://github.com/takuma104/ntlniph/tree">NatsuLiphone</a>, is open source and on GitHub! If you&#8217;re into iPhone development and Twitter, find a comfortable chair, sit back, and read some code.</p> <div align="center"><a href="https://github.com/takuma104/ntlniph/tree"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090130-b428xpxcbu4y3yukmj231fgm25.png"/></a></div> mojombo tag:github.com,2008:Post/328 2009-01-30T13:44:35-08:00 2009-01-30T14:01:46-08:00 <p>This morning we had some database problems. With help from <a href="https://engineyard.com/">Engine Yard</a> we were able to identify the slower queries and eliminate them.</p> <p>Here you can see our database exploding:</p> <div align="center"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090130-x5dfywbure73aqfjt3bqspckf3.png"/></div> <p>And the sweet release when we deployed the fix:</p> <div align="center"><img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090130-rkcn1b4d566f2x226f46deuq3.png"/></div> <p>Basically, our `events` table has swelled to over 30m rows taking up 18gb of disk space. We have some solid indexes in place, but saving new events and querying are both becoming problems. As we plan to do more fancy things with the dashboard in the future this needs to be addressed.</p> <p>Currently the plan is twofold:</p> <ul> <li>Split `events` table into `events` and `events_archive`. Older events will go into `events_archive`, archiving will happen nightly on a cron. This will dramatically reduce the size of the `events` table.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Re-evaluate every query that touches `events`, make sure it&#8217;s using the best possible index.</li> </ul> <p>We&#8217;ll update you as we make progress. Thanks!</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/327 2009-01-29T12:33:45-08:00 2009-01-29T12:41:17-08:00 <p>I have a dream wherein future developers don&#8217;t even have to install Git for themselves in order to be able to use it. Apple has shown a very forward thinking attitude towards shipping <span class="caps">OS X</span> with various programming languages and version control systems. Right now is a critical time in which we can help push to have Git preinstalled on the next version of their operating system. The more people that use Git, the better the ecosystem becomes, and removing the installation barrier is a big step in that direction.</p> <p>I&#8217;m told, on good authority, that the best way to make this happen is to let Apple know that it&#8217;s something we desire. So if you&#8217;d like to be able to fire up a fresh Mac and type `git` without ever installing it, open a ticket on Apple&#8217;s bug reporting site:</p> <p><a href="https://bugreporter.apple.com/">https://bugreporter.apple.com</a></p> <p>Let them know that you&#8217;re using Git on your mac, and that you&#8217;d love to see it shipped with the next version of <span class="caps">OS X</span> so that even more developers can experience the joy of distributed version control!</p> mojombo tag:github.com,2008:Post/326 2009-01-29T12:30:25-08:00 2009-01-29T12:32:22-08:00 <p>Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. <a href="https://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200901#21">The post</a> is just insane.</p> <div align="center"> <a href="https://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200901#21"> <img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090129-tx2gcdnhsgr8ybsapnh8u8mg9e.png" alt="" /> </a> </div> <p>A taste:</p> <blockquote> I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed &#8220;git init&#8221;, and &#8220;git add .&#8221;, and &#8220;git commit&#8221;. Ta da, a working git repository with my fresh Win98 install. <br/><br/> Then I created separate branches, one for each version of Office, and installed them one by one. And now I can easily test new versions of my plugin: &#8220;git checkout office2000; win&#8221; or &#8220;git checkout office97sr2; win&#8221;. </blockquote> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/325 2009-01-28T14:50:47-08:00 2009-01-28T14:51:08-08:00 <p><a href="https://github.com/JeremyBanks">JeremyBanks</a> and <a href="https://github.com/davglass">davglass</a> have been busy: they&#8217;ve rewritten my <a href="https://github.com/defunkt/gist">gist.rb</a> command line tool in Python.</p> <p>Check out davglass&#8217; <a href="https://github.com/davglass/gist">gist.py</a> for the code and some enhanced functionality.</p> <pre> #Creates a new Gist gist file.txt file2.js file3.html #STDIN - Giving an extension gist -e .js &lt; myfile #Debugging - This will print the Gist and not send it gist -d -e .js &lt; myfile #Pull the Gist #12345 gist -r 12345 #Clone the Gist #12345 gist -r 12345 -c </pre> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/324 2009-01-28T14:37:10-08:00 2009-01-28T14:37:29-08:00 <p><a href="https://github.com/igrigorik">Ilya Grigorik</a> has posted an article on <a href="https://www.igvita.com/2009/01/27/ruby-swarms-visualizing-rails-git/">visualizing with code_swarm</a>. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own <a href="https://github.com/schacon">Scott Chacon</a>.</p> <p>A video of Rails&#8217; commit history is available in HD on Vimeo.</p> <div align="center"> <a href="https://vimeo.com/2979844"> <img src="https://img.skitch.com/20090128-kye3yx1ay61cbf1d6e3j2pfcea.png" alt="" /> </a> </div> <p>At around the 5:05 mark, the number of contributors increases because Git (unlike Subversion) properly attributes the author of a patch. Very cool to see.</p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/323 2009-01-28T13:34:00-08:00 2009-01-28T19:53:20-08:00 <p><a href="https://github.com/adinardi">Angelo DiNardi</a> has put the previous incarnation of <span class="caps">CSH</span>&#8217;s Drink machine&#8217;s touchscreen software on GitHub as <a href="https://github.com/adinardi/csh-js-touchscreen">csh-js-touchscreen</a>.</p> <p>The Drink machine is a soda dispenser with a touchscreen interface that can be used to purchase drinks over the Internet. PC Magazine wrote about the machine as one of their <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330368,00.asp">Ten Greatest Hacks of All Time</a> (&#8220;The Internet Coke Machine (1991)&#8221;) and an <a href="https://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/csh-coke-machine-info.html"><span class="caps">FAQ</span></a> from 1995 is available.</p> <p>There&#8217;s also a YouTube video of a local news report about Drink. <strike>I&#8217;m pretty sure the guy with the laptop is Angelo, as you can see his GitHub username in the terminal.</strike> We have confirmation: Angelo is the guy talking at the end.</p> <div align="center"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/T26NpOwrQvM&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/T26NpOwrQvM&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> </div> <p>Angelo&#8217;s code ran on Opera 8 and relies on his <a href="https://github.com/adinardi/jscore">JSCore</a> library to power the touch interface. Cool stuff!</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Angelo informs us that the Drink source code is available (in Erlang) on GitHub, too: <a href="https://github.com/danw/drink">https://github.com/danw/drink</a></p> defunkt tag:github.com,2008:Post/322 2009-01-28T12:16:27-08:00 2009-01-28T12:18:42-08:00 <p><a href="https://github.com/garethr">Gareth Rushgrove</a> recently gave a presentation on Django Testing.</p> <div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_933741"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=testingdjangoapps-1232444197115958-3&amp;rel=0&amp;stripped_title=testing-django-applications-presentation" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=testingdjangoapps-1232444197115958-3&amp;rel=0&amp;stripped_title=testing-django-applications-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></div> <p>It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his <a href="https://github.com/garethr/django-test-extensions">django-test-extensions</a>. Thanks Gareth!</p> <p>(As an aside, <a href="https://morethanseven.net/">Gareth&#8217;s blog</a> has tons of great Python, Jabber, Ruby, and Git content on it. Don&#8217;t miss. <a href="https://morethanseven.net/2009/01/14/localbuilder-github/">Localbuilder</a> looks especially nice.)</p> defunkt