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Over the past several weeks, we’ve been incrementally rolling out a bunch of enhancements around our pull request workflow for Git and Mercurial projects. Our goal is to make contributing to open source projects a simple and rewarding experience, and we’ll continue to invest in this area. Here’s a summary of the changes so far, in case you’ve missed them. As always, if you have any feedback, please let us know, whether on our ideas page or via Twitter.
Support for branches
You can now pick the source and destination branches for your pull request, whether you’re sending one from your fork, or using it within a project to collaborate with your other trusted contributors.
A redesigned creation experience
Our old pull request creation form was rather lacking. It asked for a title and comment in a small modal dialog, but that was about it. We knew we could do better, so we rethought the experience. Now, when you create a pull request, you’re taken to a new page that let’s you select the source and destination, and gives you information on the diffs and commits that you’re sending, so you can confirm that you’re sending the right set of changes.
Inline code snippets in discussion
If users comment on code in your pull request, we now display a preview of the snippet of relevant code inline with their comment on the discussion. Subsequent replies on that line are combined in a single thread to preserve your context. No more clicking and hunting to find where the comments are. And you can add another inline comment right from the discussion area.
Comment notifications
You can now elect receive an e-mail notification if a user comments on your pull request. If it’s on a line of code, we’ll display the relevant code snippet in the e-mail.
Redesigned diff viewer
Our old diff viewer hadn’t been touched in a while, and was in need of an update. We started with a visual facelift to use standard red/green colors for additions/deletions and remove the noisy “dots” that represented spaces and that littered the diff viewer. Based on feedback that the viewable region for diffs was too small, especially for smaller screen resolutions, we revamped the way the viewport for the code is sized, and now expand it to fill the majority of the browser height when scrolling down. The set of improvements we implemented here also apply anywhere diffs are viewed, not just for pull requests.
Hi again, I thought I would improve on the previous post by actually putting a decent about of content into the Filetable - this time I used the opensource DMOZ Health document repository which contains 5,880 files inside 220 folders. The files are all html and are pretty small in size. The entire document collection is about 120Mb unzipped and 30Mb zipped. If any one is interested in testing this collection drop me a note and I will upload the dmoz_health repository archive to Skydrive. This time...(read more)
20 years ago I couldn't afford even a cheap POS program when I opened my first surf shop in the Virgin Islands. I bought a copy of Paradox (remember that?) in 1990 and spent months in a back room scratching out a POS application. Over many iterations, including a switch to Access (2000)/SQL Server (2003), I built a POS and backoffice solution that runs four stores with multiple cash registers, a warehouse and office.
Until recently, all my stores were connected to the same LAN (in a small shopping center) and performance wasn't an issue. Now that we've opened a location in the States that's changed. Connecting to my local server via the internet has slowed that locations application to a crawl. This is partly due to the slow and crappy dsl service we have in the Virgin Islands, and partly due to my less-than-professional code and sql. With other far-away stores in the works, I need a better solution.
I like my application. My staff knows it well, and I'm not inclined to take on the expense of a proper commercial solution. So where does that leave me? I should probably host my sql online to sidestep the slow dsl here. I think I can handle cleaning up my SQL querries to speed that up a bit. What about Access? My version seems so old, but I don't like the newer versions with the 'ribbon'. There are so many options... Should I be learning Visual Studio with an eye on moving completely to the web? Will my VBA skills help me at all there? I don't have the luxury of a year at the keyboard to figure it out anymore. What about dotnetnuke, sharepoint, or lightswitch? They all seem like possibilities, but even understanding their capabilities is daunting.
I'm pretty deep into it, but maybe I should bail and hire a consultant or programmer. That sounds expensive tho, and there's no guarantee there either...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Or, if anybody is interested in buying a small chain of surf shops...
<b>ServerWatch: </b>"You can use an on online attack as an opportunity to check that your security systems detect when a server is being bombarded with unsuccessful login attempts, and that individual accounts lock after a small number of unsuccessful login attempts."
Things to know about the IBM InfoPrint 1601 printer begin with understanding what this monochrome laser printer has to offer. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of the small business and i... [Author: Ben Pate - Computers and Internet - March 31, 2010]
Right-click in the main panel allows to change icons associated to files of directories, and this is cool for content organization and so on.
Unfortunately, right click on small directories on the side pane does not allow to change its properties (such as icon).
I try to change the original directory icon, expecting that its side pane version would change accordingly, but surprisingly, nothing appends...
Any idea?
To survive in the competitive e-marketing world almost every small e-commerce business is implementing Search Engine Optimization technique. From the pile of SEO tips as well as strategies selecting the best strategy is pretty tough. You must have basic knowledge of SEO and what is the latest update on this field. Here are some of the most praiseworthy and efficient SEO tips framed for you.
Having been in web development since 1998 and business development since 1993, I have noticed a problem faced by most small business owners. This problem is generally in regards to the ROI of marketing efforts and specifically in relation to making money via the internet.
Every organization, whether small or large, go for designing a logo for its business. And in these days and age, with immense competition, it';s hard to get identified and build a strong brand image. ... [Author: Gisselle Gloria - Web Design and Development - October 05, 2009]
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I use to connect to a pptp VPN, everything works perfectly, when i start my VPN connection I can see that the connection is in progress from the NetworkManager icon, and I can see that the connection is on when the Network icon gets the small lock.
Is it possible to add a notification ballon, like the one I see when the network connection is estabilished?
P.s if the connection fail or is dropped, the notification cames out like this:
gnome mplayer (gnome-mplayer) does not play video or dvd in expand or when the window is resized the video stay the same size and there is some kind of video error that is a picture of a previous frame of the video ,a small part is display and freezes undefined, unless is put back or not maximize.
..and the aspect of the video is the same 4:3 and do not change for example for 16:9
(and i think here is the error,not sure)
other video displays not show this error
not sure if is the rigth place do ask here
In Part 1 of this tutorial we looked at how the Task Manager in Windows 7 could be used to view the processes running on your computer and the memory usage associated with each. Let s continue by discussing some more tips on using the Task Manager to help identify any issues and improve your PC s performance....
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If you speak to Microsoft, they'll give you a number of active accounts, but what are those accounts actually running? It could be a collection of Hello World ASP.NET sites, or perhaps small exciting web start-ups, or maybe even the beginnings of large corporate moves to the cloud! I guess what I really wanted to know was who is using Azure but that's a much harder question to answer, so we'll stick to what for now. My super awesome comrade Theo Spears attempted to answer this by trawling every...(read more)
Hello,
I'm trying to develop a small image viewer just as an exercise to sharpen my programming skills. So far , all the features that I could think of adding to it are zooming in and out, inverting the colors of the image and resizing.
Could anyone suggest me a few more features?? You are also welcome to suggest anything which has not been implemented yet. I would like to take it as a learning challenge.
Thanks.
Storage and data backup for small businesses just keeps getting easier and more affordable. Iomega's StorCenter offers big capacity, features and peace of mind at great price.
Is it bad design to have 2 classes which need each other?
I'm writing a small game in which I have a GameEngine class which has got a few GameState objects. To access several rendering methods, these GameState objects also need to know the GameEngine class - so it's a circular dependency.
Would you call this bad design? I am just asking, because I am not quite sure and at this time I am still able to refactor these things.
Like anything, learning is a series of small steps that allow you to gain knowledge and information. In the case of Search Engine Optimization the steps will provide you with a skill that can advance your website in the search engine results pages while increasing your business bottom line. So there are advantages to learning how to SEO your own website and the outcome can be profitable.
I'm running an app that gets small donations (Micro payments up to ~11 USD) and also I'm doing some freelancing where I get some higher payments over PayPal too. (~900 USD a month)
Is it possible to have 2 accounts on PayPal?
(I'm asking because if someone send me money for my freelancing, they get the contact information from the app - Like [email protected] instead of [email protected] )
Thanks.
I've recorded a video using recordmydesktop, but have unfortunately chosen for capturing the whole screen (1600*896) instead of a small part with geometric 900*690.
How do I crop this video? Preferably in the editor I'm using, Kdenlive, to minimize quality loss. I've tried the Crop, Pan & Zoom and Scale0tilt effects, modifying the pixel ratio, movie size inside project settings options without success. A step-by-step guide would be preferred or at least some hints.
As many of you know, I run a small SQL Server community event here in the UK, SQL Server in the Evening, with the help of Coeo colleague and MVP Justin Langford. There’s been half a dozen evening events in the last 16 months and recently it got to the point where I needed to start putting proper tools in place to communicate with my event’s followers. As well as telling them when the next event is it’d also be nice to share some of the Chapter Leader mails I get from Pass etc. ...(read more)
Winter.NET is a lightweight Spring-like inversion of control (IoC) container for .NET platform. Its main features:
- XML-based objects graph configuration
- compact: implements conceptually full and minimum-required features of Spring-compatible XML configuration (assembly size is less than 50kb).
- fast: optimized for huge component graph configurations and small memory consumption
- .NET integration: supports System.ComponentModel interfaces
Need specialized small business software but worried it won't work with your QuickBooks, Salesforce or other business platform? Laurie McCabe explains the benefits of app stores.
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How do you dive into large code bases?
Sometimes before developing new products we need to understand some existing products or existing source code.
Sometimes to write another small module of that big project we need to understand that big source code.
In our case we need to study and understand a project with lots of files and folders. What is the easiest and most comfortable way to do it ? (especially for C and C++ and under Linux)