On the fifth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… how do I connect these? what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard, Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git, pretty please? Welcome to Day 5 of the 12 Days of Gitmas! Today I’ll be… Continue reading 12 Days of Gitmas: Connecting your local repository to GitHub
Author: Allison Day
12 Days of Gitmas: What is GitHub?
On the fourth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard? Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git, pretty please? Today’s Day 4 of the 12 Days of Gitmas, and today we’re introducing you to GitHub! What is… Continue reading 12 Days of Gitmas: What is GitHub?
12 Days of Gitmas: Your first Git project
On the third day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… Git’s ready – what then? how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git, pretty please? Yesterday, we got Git installed on your computer. Today’s Day 3, where we’ll be setting up a super simple Git project. There are different ways… Continue reading 12 Days of Gitmas: Your first Git project
12 Days of Gitmas: Setting up Git
On the second day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… how do I get Git set up? and could you explain Git, pretty please? Welcome to the 12 Days of Gitmas! On Day 1, I gave you a super simple intro to what Git is. Today’s Day 2, where I’ll be helping you install… Continue reading 12 Days of Gitmas: Setting up Git
12 Days of Gitmas: Intro to Git
On the first day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… could you explain Git, pretty please? Welcome to the 12 Days of Gitmas! This twelve-part series will introduce you to Git, and teach you how to use it. This series is aimed towards people who are new to Git or may have never heard… Continue reading 12 Days of Gitmas: Intro to Git
10 things we’ve learned about community-building on Twitch
Last night, a newer Twitch cooking streamer asked us is we had any advice about growing a community. While our cooking stream isn’t particularly big, nor are we particularly successful as streamers, after eight months of streaming on Twitch apparently I have Some Thoughts on the matter. My response to him got a little long-winded… Continue reading 10 things we’ve learned about community-building on Twitch
Game Dev: Properties
tldr: they’re called properties You know the most frustrating thing ever as a dev? (Even more frustrating than having to name things?) Not knowing the right search terms. I was trying to figure out how to have one of those little customizable fields in the Unity component editor. You know, the ones where you can… Continue reading Game Dev: Properties
Game Dev: Box Collider problems
tldr: box collider != box collider 2d. facepalm So I’m dipping a toe into gamedev. Actually I started about a year ago – learning Unity, doing alllll the tutorials, all that. And then I stopped for a while because life (and, you know, actual paying work) and now I’m back. And of course I’ve forgotten… Continue reading Game Dev: Box Collider problems
Microformats – What are they, and why are they important to my website?
In a perfect world, search engines would have human-like intelligence. You could ask them a question, and they would actually provide results with the perfect answer. They could look at a website, and understand exactly how the images related to the words, or what every element on every webpage is. Unfortunately, we don’t live in… Continue reading Microformats – What are they, and why are they important to my website?
WordCamp LA 2010
On September 11, 2010, WordCamp LA happened at Loyola Marymount University, in Westchester, Los Angeles, CA. WordCamp is a conference that has presentations about all things WordPress. Oh… and guess what? I was one of the presenters! My presentation was about Web Development for Beginners: Decoding the Code Behind Your WordPress Theme… same sort of… Continue reading WordCamp LA 2010