jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: Suggestions from the GitHub Community

Last week, I published some ideas for leveling up as a developer. I put it on GitHub as a gist, and I encouraged people to modify the list to their liking:

Feel free to fork it and add more achievements. (Make sure they're measurable.)

Or, fork it and mark off the achievements you've already conquered. You might even flag the one that you're currently working on.

So far, more than 270 developers have forked this gist. Many devs have customized their forks as personal to-do lists (e.g., crossing off past achievements and highlighting the goal they're currently pursuing). A number of people have also added new achievements to their forks, indicating additional experiences that they

jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

adamjspooner

stylus:
  compress: true
  path: ./path/to/styl

phaer

module Jekyll
  require 'coffee-script'
  class CoffeeScriptConverter < Converter
    safe true
    priority :normal

    def matches(ext)
      ext =~ /coffee/i
    end

tekacs

# Usage: show <local-port> <subdomain>
function show() {
    DOMAIN=".tekacs.com"
    REMOTE="$2$DOMAIN"
    ssh -tR 1080:127.0.0.1:$1 vps "sudo ssh -Nl \$USER -L $REMOTE:80:127.0.0.1:1080 localhost"
}

jasongraham

module Jekyll
  # Compiled LESS CSS into CSS. You must specify an empty YAML front matter
  # at the beginning of the file.
  # .less -> .css
  class LessConverter < Converter
    safe true
    priority :low
    pygments_prefix "\n"
    pygments_suffix "\n"

toolmantim

(a gist based on the old toolmantim article on setting up remote repos)

To collaborate in a distributed development process you’ll need to push code to remotely accessible repositories.

This is somewhat of a follow-up to the previous article setting up a new rails app with git.

For the impatient

Set up the new bare repo on the server: