Git

What Your Commits Know That Your Resume Doesn’t Your resume summarizes three years at a job in a bullet point. Your git history knows the truth: which languages you actually touched, when, and how much of your energy went where. Here’s how I made that visible. The Gap Resumes flatten complexity into narrative. Git history is granular, honest, and almost never examined. Why it matters: you have proof of your work distribution, right there in the log. ...

“Midway through development we decided to switch from private shared accounts to a corporate account. Switching local repos couldn’t be easier:” git remote rm origin #Removes old origin git remote add origin https://username@bitbucket.org/your.new.repo #Adds new origin pointing to BitBucket git push -u origin #Pushes commits to new repo [I love it when this stuff works so easily.] src

http://xkcd.com/1296/ Add this to the list of jokes I now get.

Day Two at MakerSquare. First full day of class. Front end in the morning: Mostly stretching the HTML/CSS muscles and practicing pair programming. Realized that float:left and float:right size the element down to the width of the child element - light bulb! Starting to scratch the surface of best practices, from using “-u” in the initial git push to writing in the present tense for git messages. And, enjoyably, making the Sublime Text experience even more awesome by tweaking settings and learning shortcuts. ...