Jud Stephenson

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year or two, you have undoubtably heard of Ruby on Rails (and for that matter, its inherent scalability issues). While doing a little research on Rails, I found a great web application built using Rails called GitHub. GitHub that acts as a remote Git repository, which means web access to all of your files and version control can be simplified to a single command:

localhost$ git push origin master

The best part is: it’s Free!

The Free Plan comes with unlimited repos for public projects and git comes standard on mac OSX, so for me, there was virtually no install necessary! If you need some help getting started, GitHub has plenty of tutorials to help you get set up quick. Why waste your time with subversion, when the best subversion alternative is so easy to use.

My life has basically taken a new direction, as such, I figure my blog needed a new design direction. I am currently working on the new design and plan to start learning cocoa, using Aaron Hillegass’ excellent book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX (Third Edition). Expect some great beginner level Cocoa tutorials to show up as I go through the book.

Update: If you are looking to download my dashboard widget, it is available via MacUpdate. Version 2.0 is the current (and probably last) stable version.