Mitchell McKenna - tagged with github http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Trailer.app - Mac App for Github Pull Requests & Comments http://mitchmckenna.com/post/15248/trailerapp-mac-app-for-github-pull-requests-comments

Keeps track of GitHub pull requests and comments right from the OS X menu bar, and it'll create OS X notifications for new ones.

]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/15248/trailerapp-mac-app-for-github-pull-requests-comments/trailerapp-mac-app-for-github-pull-requests-comments Convert a GitHub Issue Into a Pull Request http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14011/convert-a-github-issue-into-a-pull-request

A little-known-feature of the GitHub API is the ability to attach changes to an issue, converting it into a pull request. The hub command, a wrapper around git that makes it more GitHub aware, allows you to easily do this.

]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:01:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/14011/convert-a-github-issue-into-a-pull-request/convert-a-github-issue-into-a-pull-request Google Analytics For Github Repos http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13864/google-analytics-for-github-repos

Neat little trick to get google analytics tracking on your github repos.

]]> Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:29:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13864/google-analytics-for-github-repos/google-analytics-for-github-repos A fireside chat with GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13127/a-fireside-chat-with-github-s-tom-preston-werner

Interesting interview by PandoDaily with one of the 3 founders of Github. Talking about Tom's career, interesting stories of coming out of debt, and how the side project to solve the problem of sharing code became the largest code repository in the world.

]]> Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:38:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13127/a-fireside-chat-with-github-s-tom-preston-werner/a-fireside-chat-with-github-s-tom-preston-werner GitHub Survivor - Gamifying Bug Tracking http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12518/github-survivor-gamifying-bug-tracking

GitHub Survivor is a simple bug dashboard that shows an overview of bugs in a GitHub-hosted repo. They use it at 99designs to keep an eye on the bug count and turn it into a bit of a game to encourage them to close bugs.

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:53:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12518/github-survivor-gamifying-bug-tracking/github-survivor-gamifying-bug-tracking Unsucking Your Team's Development Environment http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11875/unsucking-your-teams-development-environment

Zach Holman of Github gave a great talk on some of the tools they use to simplify their dev process from local setup to deploying.

As you grow, your team's development environment becomes really important. How long does it take to clone, set up, and boot your apps? Can your employees still be productive on an aging codebase? How can you automate CI, hooks, and other setup for new projects? Is any of this fun anymore? GitHub ran into these problems as we expanded our team tremendously over the last two years. Let's look at some of the ways we've improved our employees' development environments.

http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-environment

]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:59:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11875/unsucking-your-teams-development-environment/unsucking-your-teams-development-environment GitHub Buttons with Watch and Fork Counts http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10487/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts

Mark Dotto of Twitter has created GitHub buttons to provide consistent, easy-to-use links back to a GitHub project. The buttons are very similar to the kind of social buttons for twitter and Facebook you see on blog posts. For their initial release functionality is limited to a static link back to your repo and dynamic counts for the number of watchers and forks on any public repo. In the future it will expand on this to support user profiles and dynamic buttons via oAuth.

]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:41:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10487/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts