14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

The Perfect Workflow, with Git, GitHub, and SSH In this lesson, we'll focus on workflow. More specifically, we'll use the helpful GitHub service hooks to automatically update a project on our personal server whenever we push updates to a GitHub repo. Prefer a Video Tutorial? Press the HD for a clearer picture. Step 1 - Create a Git Repo We certainly need some sort of project to play around with, right? With our test directory in place, let's create our first Git commit. If you're unfamiliar with Git, I highly recommend that you first review "Easy Version Control with Git." Open the command line: Those familiar with Git should feel right at home. Step 2 - Uploading to GitHub The next step is to upload our project to GitHub. Again, if you're not familiar with GitHub, and haven't yet created an account, read Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of Us. Begin by creating a new Git repository. Next, you'll need to fill in some details about your project. And finally, since we're already working with an existing Git repo, we only need to run:

The Pull Request » The Pull Request Episode 6 Wherein John, Chris, Gregg and Jared discuss all sorts of nerdy (or not) things. From pro-athletes, the fitbit, being a serial killer and bears (oh my!), we cover it all. Some things of note, Asp.net MVC and WebApi was open sourced this past week, also the guys discuss various what has prevented them from committing to open source in the past and how to make it known what kind of work your OSS project is looking for. Show notes after the break! Show Notes We talk about pro athletes and their ability to control their heart rates, apparently some athletes can bring their heart rate to the low 30′s!

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