Articles tagged with Github

The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis - O'Reilly Radar - "There is a debate brewing among data systems cognoscenti as to the best way to do data analysis at this scale. The old guard in the Enterprise IT camp tends to favor relational databases and the SQL language, while the web upstarts have rallied around the MapReduce programming model popularized at Google, and cloned in open source as Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is in wide use at companies like Yahoo! and Facebook, and gets a lot of attention in tech blogs as the next big open source project."
When Agile Projects Go Bad - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - "Your software development projects can benefit from Agile - assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile."" - Excellent article about skill aquisitiion and common misinterpretations of "methodologies" and tools and where they are relevant.
Why git? » Blog Archive » The Code Train - "Now, I’d been aware of git (and also bazaar) for over a year, but had never taken the time to look at them properly. The reason was that whilst I wasn’t particularly happy with the fact that I had to hold my commits in my head until I got home with svn I had been able to work this way and get things done. I was also not convinced by what I considered “fad” Version Control Systems, and I didn’t relish the prospect of moving from one to another. "

Featured Windows Download: ISODisk Mounts up to Twenty Disk Images - ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive.
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities - "I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project. I am not beginning a search for like minded developers to avoid duplication of efforts. I am not showing up at someone else’s door hat in hand, asking for commit access. I am not looking to do battle with Brook’s Law at the outset of my brainstorm."
Privnote - send notes that will self-destruct after being read - Ok, this is cool. "Get Smart" meets the internet. Thanks Aaron!
Lean software development: An iteration-less agile process « epistemologic - "I thought I’d present my reasoning as a set of statements that together build up the argument. I’ll try to address the following things - business analysis, estimation and tasking, ensuring communication, iterations, requirements prioritization, planning, showcasing and closure, taking breaks. There’s probably more, but these are the areas where most people ask questions about this approach."

Internet Evolution - Andrew Keen - Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping - "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to the utopian ideals of open-source radicals."
Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models - NYTimes.com - Article around the "grow first, monetize later" or monetize from the gates being proven out by two companies: Twitter and Yammer.
Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub « Insoshi Ruby on Rails blog - "In setting up the repositories for Insoshi, I’ve applied the version control experience I gained at Discover, where I was technical lead for the software configuration management (SCM) team. Since some aspects of our setup aren’t obvious if you haven’t managed large projects before, we at Insoshi decided to share the details so that other GitHub projects might benefit as well."
Ticketmaster to lay off 5% of global workforce - Los Angeles Times - nuff said.
3 Reasons to Switch to Git from Subversion « markmcb - "After several weeks of trials, Git seems to offer major improvements over Subversion. These are my reasons for jumping on the Git bandwagon."

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte - FLOSS Weekly - Podcast by Leo Laporte where he and his partner interview open source authors and companies. I've found this podcast extremely informative.
Suspekt… » Blog Archive » MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities - "While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems in web applications other possible problems for SQL queries like overlong input are usually ignored although they can lead to all kinds of security problems."
Yammer Launches at TC50: Twitter For Companies - Announced at TechCrunch 5.0, we now have Twitter for Companies in a product called Yammer, which limits all visibility to your email domain.
Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) - Using GitHub almost requires the use of ssh to access repositories securely. It is absolutely required to update repositories. Unfortunately, that can run afoul of the “IT overlords” in many corporate environments. At my workplace, a Microsoft ISA authenticating web proxy server is in place, restricting most outbound traffic. Specifically, port 22, the ssh port, is not allowed and that means I can’t pull or push to my repositories on GitHub.

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