Archive for September, 2008

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

BasecamPHP Updates

Over the past 2 years (!!!) since I put up my little basecamp API wrapper I’ve received a lot of great feedback and comments from other developers. In using it for their various projects they ran into some inevitable bugs and defects. Unfortunately, I haven’t been very responsible and didn’t compile the fixes into a new release. In general I’m pretty much exclusively doing ruby these days so I’m not even really making use of the wrapper anymore. Thanks to github (see previous post) I now have a very easy way of putting up the library for not only easy download but for community development (woohoo!). I’ve already incorporated the changes and given credit to the astute developers responsible in the commit messages.

Check it out: http://github.com/quirkey/basecamphp/tree/master

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

This post does not use git in a pun as a replacement for get (ie “git’n it”)

As with most things on this blog, it’d old news but, wow . . . Git rocks. Moreover, github rocks. Over the past few months I’ve been starting all new projects with git and github and I can honestly say that not only has it mad my life easier, it’s made at least the version control part of my life - fun. Big props to the github team - they’ve made an awesome product that’s changing the way we think about and use open source code.

Learning Git

It took a second to really get why git was any better then svn and why I should care. Reading helped but I would say start a github account, put a project up and just learn the workflow.

Here are some resources that got me stared:

Quirkey on git

Most importantly, in line with above I’ve moved all of my projects and even put some new ones that are in development up there:

http://github.com/quirkey/

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