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A blog from Brandon Moser, a Senior Web Developer. Mostly code, sometimes I post about drumming, UX and/or loyalty.

First Github project: CF.Objective Badger

 With a little reminder/push from @markdrew and @cfjedimaster, I created and submitted my first project to Github.com and RIAForge.org. When I created the plugin, I thought about what I was going to do for versioning, but didn't think about hosting it on Github.com. It should have been an obvious choice. Getting the project setup was really easy. I just followed the walk-through from Github.com and immediately saw my project come to life as an OSS project.

Here are the steps I took:

  • Register for Github.com (I did this months ago to watch and fork other projects)
  • Install GIT
  • From the Dashboard, click New Repository
  • Enter the Project Name, Description and Homepage URL (link back to my projects)
  • If you don't have an SSH key for your Github.com email login, you will need to create that key, here are the commands:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy(this will copy your new key to the clipboard)
  • Add your key to the Github.com SSH Public Keys in the Account Settings
  • Open Terminal (Mac OSX), run the following commands:
    (You might want to create the README and LICENSE files prior to committing the project)

cd [project directory]
git init
  • Make sure you have a README file, with contents

touch README
  • Make sure you have a LICENSE file if you are going to submit to RIAForge.com, but a good idea either way

touch LICENSE
  • This adds all files that are uncommitted

git add *
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin [email protected]:[username]/[projectname].git
git push -u origin master
  • Click continue on the screen with the instructions, if your project was pushed correctly, you should see the homepage for your project with a listing of the files.

Next I went to RIAForge.org and submitted my project for inclusion, since it is ColdFusion related.

I need to add to my Github.com project the language, so that it is included in the ColdFusion projects, but I haven't figured out how to do that, yet.

First Mango Plugin Created

 I created my first plugin for Mango Blog. Wow, that was super easy. The plugin is really simple, just adds a cf.Objective 2011 badge to the sidebar. I used another plugin, SOTR2010, from Guust Nieuwenhuis as a template. I'm not sure the documentation on the Mango Blog site would have been enough, but the fact that plugins are open source, it really makes it easy to learn from others.

Here is the link to the plugin and my new projects page, now required as I have a project to maintain.