Tag Archives: open source

Podcast of the Week #5: The Changelog

Posted on August 25, 2010 by cpjobling

Git sounds like an insult, but it’s actually a distributed version control system which was originally invented by Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel. GitHub is a phenomenally successful open-source code hosting site build around Git. GitHub is … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008 Keynotes

Posted on August 5, 2008 by cpjobling

Today was first day back “at work” and I’ve spent much of it catching up on OSCON 2008, O’Reilly’s annual open source conference, which was this year held in Portland Oregon between July 21-25. Greg Pollack of the RailsEnvy Podcast … Continue reading →

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Open Source is Magic

Posted on July 1, 2008 by cpjobling

As reported yesterday, I’ve been catching up with a number of presentations from the Google I/O 2008 conference. However, I just had to draw particular attention to one of the highlights which is this recording of a very entertaining presentation … Continue reading →

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Update to my DokuWiki CLI Plugin

Posted on February 13, 2008 by cpjobling

Applied patches suggested by users of my Command Line Interface (CLI) plugin for DokuWiki. This was my first real experience of distributed development in the open source sense. Thanks to Stephane and Andy for the suggestions: it’s nice to know … Continue reading →

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