final project -- weekly assignments -- about me -- fab academy

Week 00: Website, GIT

Part 0: Building My Own Website

You're looking at it, so have a look around. A lot of content I want to have here is still missing, stuff like a photo for the 'about me'-page, those will hopefully fall into place over the next few days / weeks. If you like what you see, feel free to copy. If you don't, obviously don't copy it, make something better.

Part 1: Getting Into GIT

GIT is a powerful versioning tool and can do a lot more than the old subversion client we used at my old uni. So, I'm off into learning something new (and rather useful, it seems) here. As you can read this, I have done:

• I've read the nice, compact starter tutorial on Roger Dudler's Github page.
• I've cloned the fabacademy-repository of our lab using the commandline client that came with xcode. Getting ssh authentication to work took some time due to an elusive typo in the configuration.
• I've dropped this bunch of files into the resulting directory.
• I've gone through the phases of add, commit, push and hope. As you can read about it, it seems to have worked.
• I've added some configuration: A standard email address for commits, a standard behaviour for push and a standard text editor I actually know how to use. Not to say vi is wrong, I just never even tried learning that monstrosity.

There is a lot more to learn, but as any learning will only work with me if it's hands-on, I'll to that when I get my paws on a project that actually needs more features.

final project -- weekly assignments -- about me -- fab academy