composer.json file for this project. Continue reading This has been working pretty well, and today I got the question “what’s new since I last saw this project?” – so I created a changelog. It’s rather rough-and-ready but I had fun so I thought I’d share. Continue reading
I have fantastic partners for these events: the Dublin ones are with Github and the London ones with FLOSSUK, and I look forward to both. Right now they all do still have places remaining, visit my courses page for the links you need to book. Training days are a great opportunity to boost your skills and discuss specific aspects of technology that you can’t really get from a textbook – hope to see you at one of these sessions, I am standing by for difficult questions :)
Often I find absolutely competent programmers, who aren’t involved in open source, either because they don’t know how to approach a project, or because they just aren’t sure how the process even works. In this article we’ll look at one example, the conference feedback site joind.in, and how you can use GitHub to start contributing code to this project. Since so many projects are hosted on github, this will help you get started with other projects, too.
This article goes through this process in more detail, so you will be able to work with git and github projects as you please.
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I’m delighted to announce that the nice people over at CakePHP have very kindly invited me to speak at their event in Manchester in September – CakeFest! They brought this event to Manchester last year and I wasn’t able to make it, so I’m super-excited to be there this year. Continue reading In this case, I’m working with the second option, so I’m pushing to the upstream repo. I’m also pushing to a live repository as well, so I thought I’d outline the commands I’m using. The setup here is the main github repo, and I have my own fork of that, which is cloned onto my laptop. I can push to both that main repo, which I’ll call “upstream” (because the github documentation does and it makes sense!) and another repo that I’ll call “live”. All in all it looks something like this:
On Monday 19th March I’ll be speaking at PHP Leeds. The topic is all things git and github; as an open source project lead I see lots of very capable programmers taking their first steps with github. In this session we’ll talk about how you can use these tools to contribute to open source (or your own projects, of course), covering both “what to click in the web interface” and “what to type at the command line” for git and github respectively. Come along if you want to know more about git, open source, or github!