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The Ultimate Git Alias Setup

If you use git on the command-line, you'll eventually find yourself wanting aliases for your most commonly-used commands. It's incredibly useful to be able to explore your repos with only a few keystrokes that eventually get hardcoded into muscle memory.

Some people don't add aliases because they don't want to have to adjust to not having them on a remote server. Personally, I find that having aliases doesn't mean I that forget the underlying commands, and aliases provide such a massive improvement to my workflow that it would be crazy not to have them.

The simplest way to add an alias for a specific git command is to use a standard bash alias.

# .bashrc

This is an example command for Backtick. A Backtick command consists of some executable JavaScript and a bit of metadata in JSON.

Here are the required steps to create a command:

Create a new Gist with a command.js and command.json file, or simply fork this one.
Write your JavaScript in command.js. This will be injected into and executed on the page the user is currently on when they run it.
Add some metadata to the command.json file:

name: The name of the command.

Installs ruby-2.0.0-p0 on ubuntu via checkinstall so it's in your package manager and you can remove it.

Quick install:

curl -L https://gist.github.com/ngauthier/5039249/raw/1868bf4714052b40e2bb7fdf3f40fbeb5d730bca/ruby-2-install-ubuntu.sh | bash -s

Screencasting Framework

The following document is a written account of the Code School screencasting framework. It should be used as a reference of the accompanying screencast on the topic.

Why you should care about screencasting?

You're probably aren't going to take the time to read this document if you're not interested, but there are a lot of nice side effects caused by learning how to create quality screencasts.

Communicating more effectively - At Envy Labs we produce screencasts for our clients all the time. Whether it's demoing a new feature or for a presentation for an invester, they're often much more effective and pleasent than a phone call or screen sharing.

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#-- coding: utf-8 --

	# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	# (at your option) any later version.
	#
	# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

	<!-- Include the following CSS and Javascript in your page -->

	<link href="https://coderbits.com/content/widget/coderbits.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
	<script src="https://coderbits.com/content/widget/coderbits.js"></script>

	<!-- Place the following in the page where you want the widget to render and set your username -->

	<section id="coderbits" data-coderbits-username="<your username>"></section>

	{
	"name": "Bit Munkey",
	"title": "Mascot and Waterboy",
	"location": "Tamarindo, Costa Rica",
	"website_link": "https://coderbits.com",
	"bio": "Born in the lush jungles of the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, Bit Munkey enjoys surfing, scuba diving, vine swinging, and of course ... bananas!",
	"created": "2012-08-24T18:40:43Z",
	"updated": "2013-08-22T18:35:52Z",
	"views": 4540,
	"rank": 4386,

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>

	<style>
	body {
	margin: 0;
	font: normal 300 1em sans-serif;
	}