Monki Gras conference has only just had its second outing and already its become a bit of a legend. Its one of those conferences that is highly social and highly stimulating and also quite exhausting in a good way. Here is some of the excitmemet I managed to capture.

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Git is a great developer tool for managing and sharing code. Its really easy to get started with, especially with services such as Github and their excellent try.github.com website. I quickly became comfortable with the basic developer cycle:

git init
git status 
git add filename
git commit -m "useful message"
git push
;; back to git status...

To keep track of changes when you just have a local repository is easy with git status.

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Sometimes reading a big book or looking at a long list of commands is the last thing you want to do when discovering how to use a new tool. So it was great to find a very visual way to show the git commands and how they work.

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Its been a cold week in London so its great to see so many venture out to the latest meetup of the London Salesforce Developer community.

Thanks to our hosts, Make Positive, there was plenty of pizza to warm everyone up and plenty of drinks to cool everyone down again. Make positive have a very roomy office to work in and its a great space to talk to other developers and admins involved in forcedotcom projects.

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Heroku is a great platform to deploy your web apps, in a way that just works for developers. What isnt obvious is you can also deploy static sites too.

As Markdown is now common way for developers to create documentation, why not use Heroku to deploy your markdown driven content site.

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Emacs is a really powerful tool for Clojure development, although without a guiding hand it can be a bit of a learning curve. Using the Emacs Live its really simple to get a fully featured development environment for Clojure. I will show you how to get Emacs Live installed and how to start using it for Clojure.

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The Git Father. The only t-shirt to wear when teaching other people who to use git and Github.

One day I will actually iron my t-shirts :)

Thanks to Clearvision for creating such a great t-shirt. Check out their Go Git website for ideas on adopting git in your organisation.

Thank you.
@jr0cket

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Emacs is fun to configure and if you have the basics of LISP or Clojure then its pretty easy too. After reading how to replace the text on the modeline I decided to customise my mode-line to make it more efficient for Clojure development. I’ll cover how I tweaked the mode line and added this customisation to my Emacs Live based configuration.

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Secure Shell (SSH) is an invaluable tool to help developers manage code and data over different computers and services, eg. Github, Heroku. By creating a public/private key it also means you dont have to enter a username & password each time you use the service. Ideally you should create a public/private key using a long passphrase, so that is what I will cover here.

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In part one I showed how easy it is to version a project using Git from within Emacs, using the Magit package. This time we look at the git log within Magit.

Working with the log gives you a lot more detail about your changes, helps you compare local and remote repo commits. All of which helps you understand when you should push your code.

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