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Some projects provide information about how people should fork and contribute to them. This is my general approach (included here, obviously, for my own edification): Fork a project: Github clickity-click Clone it locally: git clone git@github.com:username/project.git Add the upstream project: git remote add upstream git@github.com:upstream/project.git Do not commit to the master branch; it is to [...]
[Keywords: code, development, git, Github, Programming, version control] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I first used a Mac in about 1993 — a Quadra I think it might’ve been, or a Performa. I’d come from DOS and Amiga and didn’t really know anything about anything — I didn’t even know there was anything to be known. I remember hearing someone talking about Windows, and assuming they just meant [...]
[Keywords: activism, Apple, Douglas Adams, fandom, free as in speech, freedom, gratis, laptops, Lenovo, libre, Linux, Mac OS, Open Source, Programming, Ubuntu, X220] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I knew Kernighan and Plauger were forward-thinking, but hadn’t realised they were 22 years ahead of their time! (Oh, and for my own future reference: How to tear in Gimp.)
[Keywords: books, Brian Kernighan, Code Complete, non-fiction, P. J. Plauger, Programming, Reading, Steve McConnell] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am working on a bespoke issue-tracking system at the moment (not for code issue-tracking, in case anyone thinks we’re cloning Redmine; although there certainly are overlaps…) in which each issue has a list of personnel, each of whom have a role on the issue. The task at hand is to prevent people selecting the [...]
[Keywords: forms, HTML, jQuery, Programming, selecting, tabular, validation, websites, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
