I will be switching the Github & ColdFusion Weekly Update to Sunday so I don't miss any activity during the weekend. Some noteworthy events: Terrence Ryan, Platform Evangelist for Adobe, opened a Github account and has been very busy starting four repositories. Bill Shelton created a respotiory for MXUnit. Github introduced a compare view. Russ Johnson helped contribute to the Wheels Scaffolding plugin.
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One feature of Github is "Social Coding". Github tracks users' actions (pushes, closing tickets, creating repositories) and repositories' actions allowing for people to easily see what is going on.
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You can "follow" people.
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You can "watch" repositories.
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This is cool, so you can keep tabs on all the awesome coding people are doing and even pitch in if you want.
This week ColdFusion position on Github is currently 31. To put this in perspective, ASP is 27th and PHP is 6th. Please keep creating and moving your open source projects to Github.
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crimsonskyfalling / ValidateThisWithAnnotations
tbuntel2 / CFFlexWork
andyj / isValidRSS-CFC- crimsonskyfalling / ValidateThis
mhenke / cfwheels
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I have been touting Github for ColdFusion open source projects. I have a great example of why.
Bob Silverberg has been working on ValidateThis for Wheels. This consists of two projects, the ValidateThis framework and a ValidateThis Wheels plugin. He forked my repository of the plugin and made a change, then sent me a pull request. All I had to do was add Bob's remote branch to my local repository, fetch the changes, then merge in the changes, and push the update. Notice I didn't change from my branch.
I found the commands here.
git remote add bob git://github.com/bobsilverberg/validateThisCFWheels.git
git fetch bob
git merge bob/master
git push
Riaforge recently added an input field for external source control sites and Github now recognizes ColdFusion syntax. With these two announcements, I will demonstrate how to edit your Riaforge project information for Github . I will use jTidy cfc for the example.
Filling from top to bottom of the Edit project page, you will proceed normal until External Project URL and External Download URL.
