Month: December 2013

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

The old fat man dressed in red, with a long white beard just visited my home.  He said that I was mostly good this year, and left a whole bag of presents.  He only had a few moments to spare, so we served him with a ginger beer and a few cookies.  (Apparently, he is lactose intolerant and doesn’t particularly like the taste of milk.) He then rushed away, promising to visit us again on the New Year’s Eve in about a week.  He also left a message for me to pass on to all of you.  Here it goes:

Merry Christmas everyone!  Best wishes to you and your loved ones!

GitHub celebrates 10 million repositories

GitHub is celebrating 10 million repositories milestone.  While it might seem like a lot, it looks like they are only picking up the pace, with more than half – over 5.5 million repositories – created just this year.   Here is a handy graphic of how it goes:

10 million repos on GitHub

Check their blog post for more details and for links to some cool repos.

Personally, I wish GitHub all best and hope that they will continue doing what they are doing.  With more than 50 repositories across my own projects, the day job, and the things I do with friends, I can’t imagine my life without GitHub.  I use it on a daily basis and wish that more people that I interact with do so as well.

Happy 10MIL, GitHub! You are awesome!

11 ways you can tweet better

11 ways you can tweet better

  1. Use a hashtag to drive the conversation.
  2. Organize a live event using Twitter.
  3. Tweet the past as if it were the present.
  4. Have a celebrity take over your account.
  5. Join the conversation where it takes place.
  6. You ask the questions.
  7. Live-tweet a breaking news event.
  8. Team up with the co-stars and use hashtags to drive fans to a TV show.
  9. Use Vine videos.
  10. Use a custom timeline to curate the best content.
  11. Voting and displaying on air