Hands-on GitHub Actions (Getting Started with GitHub Actions Workflows)

Say you have a bug report or feature request to make to a package.How can you use information on GitHub to manage your expectations (will there be a quick fix) and actions (should you go ahead and fork the repository)?In this post, we shall go over sources of information and explain how they can be used.In the end, there is no magical recipe, except perhaps graciousness, as software is made by humans.

Technology fails – at least sometimes. This is particularly true for a modern distributed research infrastructure, such as DARIAH-DE. For the operation of this infrastructure, we have implemented a monitoring solution with Icinga. This enables us to be informed about problems and react quickly.

The github repository will serve as a location for you to turn-in your homework, and allow the instructors to push back code modifications and suggestions.

There is an excellent post on open science, prestige economies, and the social web over at Marciovm's posterous*. For those of you who aren't insanely nerdy** GitHub is… well… let's just call it a very impressive collaborative tool for developing and sharing software***. But don't worry, you don't need to spend your days tied to a computer […]

If you've ever needed to deploy Java applets, you may have found the information on best practices scattered, inconsistent, and unreliable. Applet-Fu is a small JavaScript library that makes it easy to deploy applets by taking advantage of Web standards and features already supported by mainstream browsers. More detailed discussion of Applet-Fu is available from the Metamolecular Products Blog and the ChemWriter Best Practices Deployment Page.