Code Design Has To Be Slick 
gitcrap again
Didn’t I talk about GitHub already? Didn’t I mention how it breaks down in the most obscure places and how they think being cool is a license to mess with their clients? Well, it just got better: They cut the gem building service. Not only that, but they didn’t know in advance… I’m not impressed.
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git submodules
Today’s lesson is mainly for the people who want to use the Talia source code, but it could be useful for many git users, so I’m putting it here. In our code we use git submodules a lot; they are a bit like the good old svn externals but have different quirks that are not that easy to understand. And of course neither the official documentation nor the tutorial explain it in more detail. (I’ll assume that you’re already familiar with the general concept):
It’s so 1999 again…
I just went over to GitHub to comment on a ticket. I wanted to put an URL in the comment. No problem, usually all those comment boxes have a help function nearby, that explains you how the markup works.
GitHub has a link next to the comment box that says “Parsed with GitHub Flavored Markdown“. When you click it, you end up on a page that tells you how their flavour is different from the standard one and then…
Put your rdoc on github, monitor your sever
Last week I needed a quick way to monitor our server, and also updated our code documentation. I’ve come up with some small tools that some people out there may find useful:
- gokdok – automatically upload your rdoc documentation as github-pages
- watchdogger – a little watchdog daemon that’s quite configurable
New Design Again
As I found out that my old WP template broke in all places, even killing the comment function. I spent some of my lunch break searching for a clean one – thanks for ThemeShift for making this one available for free.
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