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What to make for profit?
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17-08-2012 11:19pm#1
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When I am stuck at a computer wondering what I should code, I always ask myself is there something I could program to make something more efficient or something that adds to my computing experience.
But that never works, so don't do it
Don't aim on working on some huge, profitable project just yet. Build a portfolio of small personal projects and go up the ladder.
However, imho, you should concentrate on building a "portfolio" of your code on GitHub. GitHub is a social platform built on the idea of open source software/web development. Git is a version control system you should probably learn the basics of how to use first though. As someone said, GitHub and Sourcefourge (ew, SVN) are two of the largest places to find open, free code you can look at and tinker with to your hearts content (of course while complying with the appropriate licensing terms).
Also, consider learning new things. New programming languages (and frameworks) such as Python + Django, Ruby + Ruby on Rails and Node.js + Geddy -- and new database systems such as MongoDB, Postgres and CouchDB.
I never aim for profit personally, I just love programming no matter how good or bad I am at it.
But thats my 2c anyway
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Anyone got a good guide for getting started with open source projects? I'd like to give it a go, but my Git knowledge is still pretty limited, and I don't know (a) where to look for a project seeking input, (b) where desired/desirable patches are listed for that project, (c) where to get permission (?) to get involved with a project, etc...
I have a Github account, let's start there
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Anyone got a good guide for getting started with open source projects? I'd like to give it a go, but my Git knowledge is still pretty limited, and I don't know (a) where to look for a project seeking input, (b) where desired/desirable patches are listed for that project, (c) where to get permission (?) to get involved with a project, etc...
I have a Github account, let's start there Now what?!
Are you using windows? If so get the windows client. Then just go searching through for projects you like the look of and clone them to your account (one button click) from there you have your own fork you can buzz around with.
Usually a project will have an issues list, if there is something there you can take a stab at go do it in your fork and then you can submit this to the original author, who finally decides if they want it or not, if not you can continue on with your fork
Link to the Github Client for Windows:
http://windows.github.com/
Word of warning, clone on the site first then use the download to windows one, otherwise the syncing is weird due to permissions. So Clone on site, download via client, bobs your uncle!0 -
Anyone got a good guide for getting started with open source projects? I'd like to give it a go, but my Git knowledge is still pretty limited, and I don't know (a) where to look for a project seeking input, (b) where desired/desirable patches are listed for that project, (c) where to get permission (?) to get involved with a project, etc...
I have a Github account, let's start there Now what?!
Github, by the way, is a bit different than most places, the idea is that you clone other peoples work rather than work on the direct copy. This is why you see loads of people who's accounts have repo's that are the same, this works out great for things like patching with something that only you need.
Say you had framework x cloned. This framework fibbles all the wibbles. But you would like this framework to fibble all the wibbles only when it's tiggled... In general you don't want to be asking the author to do this for you so what you do is clone and add your functionality.
You now have your own repo with the tiggled functionality. From here you can ask the author if he wants you to submit it as a patch so it can be merged into the orginal repo, if he declines you don't have to scrap, you can keep your repo in sync with his but with the addition of your tiggle functionality...
As an example, the twitter bootstrap tools (for building websites) has 7600 odd forks, this means there are 7600 odd version, many people who fork have no intention of integrating back in and are basically using it as a starting point for their own projects + customisations
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap0 -
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