June 1st, 2011
Git workshop with Tim Berglund at OSCON 2011. It’ll be my first time at OSCON, and being the open source advocate that I am, I’m nothing short of thrilled to sit and attend a few sessions as well. I’ll be joined by some of my esteemed No Fluff Just Stuff compatriots such as Scott Davis and Daniel Hinojosa, amongst several others. If you are on the fence about attending, check out this partial speaker list, let the awesomeness settle in, and then book your ticket.
Oh, and last, but not least, our Presentation Patterns talk (with the venerable Neal Ford and well-known Nate Schutta) was also accepted as a talk at OSCON. Double win!
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March 8th, 2011
Ben Franklin Octocat and I are pleased to announce that I’ll be giving one and possibly even two days of Git training at the Canoo offices in Basel, Switzerland in May. There is some room for public registrants, so take a quick look at the page and if the very affordable 225 CHF fits your budget, come and join us on that Thursday or Friday for a great day of Git mentoring (in-person is always the most valuable form of learning).
You”ll walk away with a solid understanding of the Git DVCS tool — not just wrote memorization. The class is conducted in a very interactive style and we’ll aim to travel from the basics all the way to some very advanced DVCS moves. You’ll be able to wield ultimate power over your source code history whether stored locally, at your company, or on the awesome GitHub platform.
See you in CH!
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February 15th, 2011
Mattias Karlsson, the ever-professional helmsman for the JFokus conference, had an at-length discussion with me about Git and his conference at the grand Devoxx show in Antwerp, Belgium this past November. We arrived at a plan to bring Git, the innovative DVCS from Linus Torvalds, in full force to Stockholm, Sweden, home of my great-great grandfather, through workshops and lectures.
It sounded like a good plan, and I received the generous support of GitHub, the awesome web-enabled half of Git to make the trip possible. Wanting to maximize the Git teaching time spent in Stockholm, Mattias and some of my Swedish colleagues helped organize 1, then 3, and now 5 Git training opportunities. The plan is now to spend nearly 5 to 10 hours per day teaching Git; I couldn’t be more excited!
If you are in the Stockholm region and want to learn why Git is not just another tool in your belt, but literally a refreshing new way to think about source control and code collaboration, then contact Mattias or I. Get in on one of the events from Monday through Friday of this week (February 14 through 18) and Git Going.
See you in Stockholm!
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February 15th, 2011
Five Hours of Complete Git Training via Video
I have the privilege of announcing that the videos that Tim Berglund and I recorded in a Denver film studio just a brief while ago are now for sale at the O’Reilly online store. These 5 hours of downloadable and streamable Git training videos are similar to the in-person and online classes that I teach about this exciting distributed version control system. The price point is aggressive — a mere $49.95 USD — and they can be watched, increment by increment, at your leisure from the comfort of your couch at home or discomfort of your next plane flight.
These videos aim to give you a ground-up tutorial on the mechanics and usage of the Git distributed version control system. With the recent milestones of 1,500,000 repositories and 500,000 users at GitHub, the premier place to host Git repositories in a collaborative and dare I say, social way, Git is gaining incredible traction with software craftsmen and craftswomen everywhere.
A few fantastic comments have been made about the videos in the few days that they’ve been on the market. Here’s one from a good friend and long-time NFJS attendee, Darin Pope:
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