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Using Gists For More

By Henry Blyth

@henrahmagix

Front-ender at Incuna

Gists by GitHub

What is GitHub?

Online code hosting that gives you public and private Git repositories.

• Public repos are unlimited!
• Private repos cost

tee ell; dee arr

GitHub is amazing

What are Gists?

Gists are Git repos, same as any other.

However, on GitHub:

• No pull-requests
• But you can fork them
• And clone, update, and push revisions

Got some code? Want to share it?

There are loads of code sharing sites

• Pastebin
• Pastie
• Friendpaste
• Ideone
• Instacode

Some compile, some allow edits

Some even give you hipstery-angle, faux tilt-shift, vignette renders of code

Instacod.es

Hipstery-angle, faux tilt-shift, vignette renders of code

But they don't give you a Git repository

No siree.

Gists are free!

Secret Gists are free and unlimited

WOOT!

Only limit is GitHub functionality:

• No code review
• No issue tracking
• Still no pull-requests

Using Gists for more... what?

Writing

Gist.Io

Live Demos

bl.ocks.org

View any public Gist with an index.html file as a served web page

Reference local files in the repository, so you can:

• Add Javascript to demo some code
• Add CSS to prototype a design
• Send the link to a client

Happy client?

Example - Canvas Snow

Presentations

Gistdeck

End

Thank you