GitHub has yet another update to their pricing options. Â Business plans have been launched with support for SAML single sign-on, 99.95% uptime SLA, 24×5 support with 8 hour response, and more.
Unfortunately it still counts external contributors as users in the account, which makes it too expensive for my organizations, but it’s good to see them trying.
Mind-blowing harmonica skills by Christelle Berthon. Â If you enjoyed it, check the Gary Moore cover, and the rest of the YouTube channel.
I’ve searched for this before, and I’m sure I’ll do that again (although the need is not that frequent), so here it goes. Â It is possible to move files from one git repository to another, preserving commit history. Â The following links provide a few examples of how to do this:
Basically, you need git filter-branch command, usually with the –subdirectory-filter parameter.
An example of where it is useful would be the extraction of some code from a project you have into a shared library or a simple plugin.
I don’t do a lot of front-end work these days, but I am genuinely interested in approaches that help build modular systems, especially when the subject is something as messy and as context-dependent as CSS.
Recently, I came across the Block-Element-Modifier approach, aka BEM, which I find interesting.
If you’re not familiar with BEM, it’s a naming methodology that provides a rather strict way to arrange CSS classes into independent components. It stands for Block Element Modifier and a common one looks like this:
.block {} .block__element {} .block--modifier {} .block__element--modifier {}The principles are simple — a Block represents an object (a person, a login form, a menu), an Element is a component within the block that performs a particular function (a hand, a login button, a menu item) and a Modifier is how we represent the variations of a block or an element (a female person, a condensed login form with hidden labels, a menu modified to look differently in the context of a footer).
This follow-up article provides more details and examples.