Cool features of GitHub

This presentation is about some of the amazing features of GitHub. The target audience is folks who might not know Git and GitHub very well, or not at all. The features can be very useful even for them, and by starting to use GitHub, they just might actually be on the fast track to becoming full-time Git users, who knows...
http://www.janosgyerik.com/cool-features-of-github/

Transcript

1. (Even if you don't use Git...yet) Cool features of GitHub
2. This presentation is not really about It's really about
3. = ? ? =
4. =repository of source code (DVCS) site to host git site to collaborate =
5. =
6. is mainly for ... but at the same time ... (I guess...)
7. ... it's also much more ... wiki gists markdown ... gh-pages issue tracking
8. gists? * Short code snippets * Random notes
9. -- "create" a user in MySQL GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'dbuser'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'userpass'; /* CSS media query: apply if width < 980px */ @media (max-width: 980px) { body { padding-top: 0; } } // where the hell my log4j settings come from?? System.out.println(Loader.getResource("log4j.properties")); System.out.println(Loader.getResource("log4j.xml")); ...gists for random code snippets...
10. ...gists for other random stuff...
11. Clone https://gist.github.com/ID.git <script src= "https://gist.github.com/USER/ID.js"> </script> https://gist.github.com/USER/ID Embed Link
12. ...mmm too many gists piling up? perhaps it's time to create a repo?
14. Add files right there... Edit files right there...
15. markdown
16. github flavored markdown ```javascript function fancyAlert(arg) { if (arg) { $.facebox({div:'#foo'}) } } ``` function fancyAlert(arg) { if (arg) { $.facebox({div:'#foo'}) } }
17. Press "m"
18. # naturally: git clone https://github.com/USER/PROJECT.git # ...but also: svn checkout https://github.com/USER/PROJECT.git # that's right, you can use Subversion too with GitHub!!! btw...
19. wiki! * can clone it * edit on GitHub or locally * use any wikitext * atom feed = https://github.com/USER/PROJECT.wiki.git
20. gh-pages? = static html hosting = project demo page Step 1: create branch: gh-pages Step 2: git push to GitHub Step 3: http://USER.github.io/PROJECT/
21. NONE of the above is a primary function of GitHub... These are "just" the "extras"! ... but the truth is ...
22. GitHub is popular 2008 2009 2011 2010 2012 2013 42000 166000 510000 1.2m 1.9m # of users
23. GitHub is huge 2008 2009 2011 2010 2012 2013 80000 484000 1.3m 3.4m 6.5m # of repositories
24. GitHub is rock solid * GitHub is upgraded 20-40 times per day * GitHub is faster than your website * GitHub has better uptime than your website
25. 'nuff said!
26. https://github.com/features https://speakerdeck.com/holman/git-and-github- secrets https://speakerdeck.com/holman/scaling-github https://speakerdeck.com/holman/how-github-uses- github-to-build-github https://github. com/janosgyerik/articles/tree/master/cool-features-of- github