Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Break Things
Search
Zoe Nolan
December 05, 2015
Programming
1.5k
0
Share
Break Things
Don’t be afraid of experimenting for Rails Girls London 6
Zoe Nolan
December 05, 2015
More Decks by Zoe Nolan
See All by Zoe Nolan
Mistakes I've made in my career (so far)
zoenolan
0
560
Knowing enough to be dangerous
zoenolan
0
1.4k
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?
zoenolan
0
1.3k
Always Be Learning
zoenolan
2
1.4k
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
ついに来た!本格的なマルチクラウド時代の Google Cloud
maroon1st
0
310
When benchmarks go bad - what I learned from measuring performance wrong
hollycummins
0
200
属人化しないコード品質の作り方_2026.04.07.pdf
muraaano
0
280
Programming with a DJ Controller — not vibe coding
m_seki
3
680
ソフトウェア設計の結合バランス #phperkaigi
kajitack
0
160
実用!Hono RPC2026
yodaka
2
280
Import assertionsが消えた日~ECMAScriptの仕様はどう決まり、なぜ覆るのか~
bicstone
2
150
PHPでローカル環境用のSSL/TLS証明書を発行することはできるのか? #phpconkagawa
akase244
0
170
CursorとClaudeCodeとCodexとOpenCodeを実際に比較してみた
terisuke
1
510
PCOVから学ぶコードカバレッジ #phpcon_odawara
o0h
PRO
0
290
Cache-moi si tu peux : patterns et pièges du cache en production - Devoxx France 2026 - Conférence
slecache
0
320
How We Practice Exploratory Testing in Iterative Development( #scrumniigata ) / 反復開発の中で、探索的テストをどう実施しているか
teyamagu
PRO
2
320
Featured
See All Featured
Color Theory Basics | Prateek | Gurzu
gurzu
0
300
The Pragmatic Product Professional
lauravandoore
37
7.2k
Designing for humans not robots
tammielis
254
26k
Winning Ecommerce Organic Search in an AI Era - #searchnstuff2025
aleyda
1
2k
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
141
7.4k
Crafting Experiences
bethany
1
130
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
lfama
PRO
6
35k
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
128
17k
RailsConf 2023
tenderlove
30
1.4k
SEOcharity - Dark patterns in SEO and UX: How to avoid them and build a more ethical web
sarafernandez
0
180
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
marcduiker
35
2.4k
Leo the Paperboy
mayatellez
7
1.7k
Transcript
Break Things Don’t be afraid of experimenting Zoë Nolan Rails
Girls London December 2015
Hello my name is Zoë Find me online at http://zoenolan.org
Don't worry about taking notes http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/12/break-things/
Try things Following guides is a good start But only
the start of your journey
Not all Experiments work Things will go wrong
Version Control Word’s track changes for source code
Git Created by Linus Torvalds Been around since 2005 Widely
used
Who am I? git config --global user.name “Ada Lovelace“ git
config --global user.email
[email protected]
Somewhere to store the changes git init RailsGirlsLondonSix
Adding changes git add TheNextFacebook.rb git commit
Branching Create a Branch git branch CoolNewThing Switch to a
branch git checkout CoolNewThing Delete a Branch git branch –D CoolNewThing
See your changes git status git log
Tutorials Try Git http://try.github.com/ How to Use Git and GitHub
https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-use-git-and-github--ud775 Pro Git http://git-scm.com/book
Resources Git cheat sheet https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitCheatSheet A successful Git branching model
http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/12/break-things/