I have had a GitHub account since March 6, 2013, but I never used it until much later in 2016.<\/p>\n
I started working on a list of places to eat when I traveled and using GitHub to backup\/store my code.<\/p>\n
My first use of GitHub was on September 30, 2016, when I created my first repro for the place to eat project. At some point, I purchased the domain name GottaEatHere.com<\/a> to put the information on. I bought a bunch more domains because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to call the application.<\/p>\n The reason I started the project was for the An Event Apart and Microsoft 10K Apart contest. Besides, people had been asking me for recommendations of where to eat. So I figured I build a small web-based application to kills two birds with one stone. The contest was where people had to build an application in less than 10 kilobytes (KB) of code.<\/p>\n I spent some time upfront figuring out how best to do that. I wanted to learn PHP or at least get better at it, so that’s where I started.<\/p>\n My first thoughts were I would need two or three Kb for CSS. Then another three Kb for my HTML template, and the remaining Kb for logic to render the pages content.<\/p>\n I decided to use JSON files because I wasn’t sure if a database would count against the total of 10 Kb. Which allowed me to learn something else new too.<\/p>\n I worked to get my PHP application to render a list of five or six cities, and I think five restaurants I loved going to. Each city had its know JSON file, and they were half Kb in size or something like that.<\/p>\n The 10 Kb or less version of the application had a lot less information per city and restaurant. I think it had a name, address, phone number, URL, and a short description. Now it has a bunch o other information.<\/p>\n A person chooses a city was from a drop-down list. Then the PHP would read the JSON file for the city that a person picked. Then render the restaurants for that city. Nothing fancy, but it got the job done. I didn’t expect to win anything, and I didn’t.<\/p>\n Of course, the whole time, I was making sure it was as accessible as possible.<\/p>\n On November 18, 2016, I started making more commits to add more places to eat along with more cities, along with information.<\/p>\n November 18th was the day I started making at least one commit or added an issue to GitHub every day. It might have been for new fields, cities, states, etc., to GitHub every day.<\/p>\n Over the last four and a half or so years, I have only missed doing something on GitHub about a dozen times. So that works out to three or four times a year. I’m okay with that and don’t lose sleep over it if I do. Some of the updates and issues were related to my slides, and others were for code examples for the slides.<\/p>\n My use of GitHub is still through their desktop application. It lets me create new repro’s, create issues for new features, cites, restaurants, etc.<\/p>\n With only me working on the projects, I have not had to worry about creating branches, merging others’ code, etc. At some point, I need to learn how to do that through the application or the command line.<\/p>\n So here’s to learning more Git. Be it through the GitHub application or, more importantly, through the command line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have had a GitHub account since March 6, 2013, but I never used it until much later in 2016. I started working on a list of places to eat when I traveled and using GitHub to backup\/store my code. … Continue reading Reason for Using GitHub<\/h2>\n
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