GitHub Pages | Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live. Data retention: we need this Opposition to oppose Opinion Posted Instead of stepping up as a party of opposition, Labor has thrown Tony Abbott a mass surveillance lifeline and indicated it will support his attack on our freedoms, writes Scott Ludlam. This earnest and reasonably accurate tweet from Labor Party headquarters caught my eye this morning, and momentarily seemed to capture everything that is broken about Australian politics: The worst Prime Minister in Australian history, mortally damaged from a series of self-inflicted political disasters, gropes towards the only thing he thinks can save him: fear. To this end, he is clutching at laws to force Australian telecommunications providers to entrench passive electronic surveillance across everyone in the country: a two-year mandatory data retention regime. So what does the Labor Party propose to do when the "worst Prime Minister in Australian history" demands we all submit to mass surveillance in the hope he can squeeze a few points out of the next Newspoll? #StopDataRetention.
GitHub Workflow (used by Frameworks team at BBC News) Introduction This is a quick post to cover a GitHub workflow that is utilised by our specific team (Frameworks) here at BBC News. The basis of our workflow is this: Open a GitHub PR (Pull Request) by creating a new feature branch from masterMake feature specific changes and request a code reviewIf given a "thumbs up", this means the PR author is allowed to handle merging the PRThe merge process requires a set of sub steps (see below) Rebase before merge At this point the PR author has been given a "thumbs up" and is preparing their PR to be merged back into the master branch. Example Below is an example set of commits we'll be working from. At this point, let's imagine our feature PR has been approved to be merged: git checkout master git pull --rebase origin master git checkout feature git rebase -i master Now at this point you should see something like the following in your terminal: pick ae1a4a5 Foo pick a5827db Bar pick 62d4c80 Baz We're now ready to modify our git history. Links
The EU data protection regulation after 3 years of negotiation | Inside Privacy By Jean de Ruyt and Sebastian Vos On January 25, 2012, the European Commission presented a proposal for a “Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data”, the “Data Protection Regulation” (DPR). The Commissioner in charge of justice at the time, Viviane Reding, aware of the complexity of the matter, stated jokingly that she hoped a decision on this proposal would at least be reached by the end of her term, i.e. in October 2014. Reding is now gone, a new EU Commission is in place, but the Council of Ministers has only agreed very recently on a few chapters of the ninety page proposal; “Trilogue” negotiations between the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission have not even started. Why is this exercise so difficult when the main objective – better protecting peoples’ data – should be a consensus priority on the EU agenda? The answer to this question is two-fold: Where do we go from here?
Google Code ferme ses portes ? Nous, on les ouvre. C’est officiel : Google Code, qui permettait aux développeurs de déposer, partager, et collaborer sur du code logiciel (libre ou pas), va bientôt fermer ses portes. Il va donc rejoindre le mémorial des projets sabordés par Google. La raison la plus probable, c’est que GitHub (une plateforme concurrente) attire bien plus de développeurs, et donc de code, que Google Code. Non seulement grâce à une interface plus intuitive, mais aussi par une facilité bien plus grande pour les développeurs à collaborer ensemble (plus on est de fous, plus il y a de code produit). D’ailleurs, Google ne s’en cache pas et propose, dans le courrier annonçant la clôture prochaine du service, un outil permettant de transférer votre projet logiciel de Google Code à GitHub. Quelles réflexions cela devrait-il nous inspirer ? D’abord, que malgré sa puissance financière massive, Google n’est pas systématiquement le meilleur dans son domaine. Ensuite, que Google continue à être une entreprise qui ne s’entête pas. 1. 2. pyg
sid_analysts_can_now_unminimize_uk_phone_data GitHub Alternative: Top 7 Best Source Code Hosting Sites As many of you may know, Gitorious – a website that let you host (open source) projects using Git version control – was recently purchased by GitLab, and it is to stop operations from May, 2015. In relation to this, we have a roundup of 7 GitHub alternatives for you to check out. GitHub GitHub is the world’s largest, and most popular code hosting site. GitHub users have a choice of using either Git or Subversion as their VCS (Version Control System), to manage, maintain and deploy software projects. All users and organizations get to host one free website on a GitHub pages subdomain username.github.io as well as unlimited project pages at username.github.io/project-page and you can switch to your own custom domain (if you have one) anytime for free. List of Best GitHub Alternatives 1. Bitbucket is second only to GitHub in terms of popularity and usage. Atlassian also has its own Git and Mercurial client Source Tree which is available for free on Windows and Mac. Developer: Atlassian Link
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Top 10 Free GitHub Alternatives for Private Repositories Github though is huge resource for most of the developers; it is restricted and not always possible to be use without any hurdle as there might be issue with the client and employers to host the code from their private servers. However you may have a few side projects that may not pay for those private repositories. And that why there few alternatives that can be used instead of Github. This is open source software to collaborate on code. Gitorious can be a quite satisfying if you’re looking for codes that are self hosted at your servers. This is a web based project management system. This is open-source software for managing source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs etc, but lacks in providing code review. Bitbucket can be used for small team who has less than 5 users.Even though it doesn’t allow self hosting, it can attract clients who have small team. This can be tried for free yet unfortunately it doesn’t allow team to have free account.
30 amazing data viz galleries everyone should follow Not so long ago, we brought to you a set of Pinterest users to follow, as an example of the kind of curating efforts many people are making in social network websites such as that one. But is that the only option, to quickly look out for thew best examples of infographics? Of course not. There are plenty of websites to bookmark, if what you’re looking is visual inspiration Before we go any further, a couple of notes: we’re not listing graphics desk or publishers portfolios/online galleries, or featuring any individual or collective portfolio, as it would make this post immense – much more than what already is. For the same reason, we’re leaving out those social networks such as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, NewsPageDesigner, LinkedIn, Flickr, and all the others where, either through personal or institutional profiles, or through public and private groups, infographics and data visualizations are collected/shared. Visual Complexity (image: Visual Complexity) Visualizing.org Newsvis.org