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The GitHub Community Roundup - 2024.04.19

April Yoho — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:11:01 +0000

Hello everyone and welcome back to this week's edition of the GitHub Community Roundup! Here in the northern hemisphere we're starting to see signs of spring and hopefully some warmer weather. There are some great blogs that got published this week, check out the latest content from our awesome community:

How Copilot is being used by the Time Travel debugging team with C++

This great article from Sinem Akinci showcases how one of the groups at Microsoft are actively using C++ in their development processes. Check it out and learn some great real life development use cases.

How Copilot is being used by the Time Travel debugging team with C++

We often see how to use GitHub Copilot in VSCode or GitHub Codespaces, but this article focuses directly on the use cases with Visual Studio. So if you're developing within Visual Studio, you do not want to miss this post from Laurent Bugnion and Cynthia Zanoni

Update your Pull Requests with GitHub Actions

Did you know that 50% of pull requests have little to no description? Thomas Thornton has written a great article on automation and how to leverage GitHub Actions to update your pull requests.

Setting Up CodeQL

Security is crucial to development, however with GitHub Advanced Security it leverage automation and tooling to keep your code more secure. Read Zeeshan Javeed's blog on how to get it configured easily.

If you’ve written an article about GitHub or find some great content about GitHub or any of its features or products, please share it with the #GitHub hashtag on Twitter, dev.to or LinkedIn!

What's new at GitHub this week?

Earn your GitHub Foundations certification

Get GitHub certified and get started with this learning path, free!

GitHub Universe call for sessions

Apply to speak at GitHub Universe 2024, the call for submissions is now open to all!

Thomas Dohmke spoke at TED

GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohmke took the stage this past week and presented at TED. The session will be out soon to watch!

Thank you to the community for putting together these great updates!

Happy Friday!

The GitHub Community Roundup – 2024.02.09

April Yoho — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:46:50 +0000

Hello everyone and welcome back to the 3rd edition of the GitHub Community Roundup! We've decided to make a small change in the name as we feel it better suits you all, the community. There are some great articles that have been published this week, have a read and learn some awesome stuff.

Are you looking to create custom reports from GitHub? Check out how to connect to GitHub's APIs and produce reports on PowerBI
Creating a README file is extremely critical to onboarding and collaborating with others. Check out this really great blog on how to do this.
Make your GitHub status check and create branch protection easily.. These things will help your repos and projects stand out!
Learn how to trigger a GitHub Action Workflow from another repository, which is super useful when you want to automate tasks or chain together a series of automation.
Skill up with some solid concepts around repository best practices, getting your repo set up is crucial to usability and onboarding others into your projects.
Personally, reading about the hidden gems in GitHub is always cool, what new things did you learn from this blog?

If you’ve written an article about GitHub or find some great content about GitHub or any of its features or products, please share it with the #GitHub hashtag on Dev.to, Twitter or LinkedIn!

What's new at GitHub this week?

A huge thank you goes out to Julia, Bobby, Niek, Marcel and Vinicius for contributing to the technical community!

Happy Friday and we'll see you all next time for the latest GitHub community updates!

What's new in the GitHub Community! - 2024.01.26

April Yoho — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:56:45 +0000

Hello everyone! We're back for our 2nd edition of the Top Stories from the GitHub Community. There are some great articles this week from our fellow community members. If you want to be featured in our weekly roundup of great content, please share your content using the #GitHub hashtag on social media. We loving seeing how everyone in the community is using different GitHub features!

Deploy Your React App Using GitHub Pages
This is a great article on how to easily deploy your React app using GitHub pages, thank you Anisul for writing this!

Git Add Command: A Step by Step Tutorial
If you want to skill up using Git, especially around the Git Add command, this article by Ione is the play to go. He also has been publishing more articles around Git usage, all are great learning guides!

Deploy Manual Files to Databricks dbfs using GitHub Actions
Automating and updating your data is an important process, learn to automate that process using GitHub Actions.

A non-coders guide to Open Source Contributions
Open Source drives innovation and software development. Getting started with Open Source contribution can be daunting, Mario's article really helps show you how easy it is to get started.

If you’ve written an article about GitHub or find some great content about GitHub or any of its features or products, please share it with the #GitHub hashtag on Twitter, Dev.to or LinkedIn!

What's new at GitHub this week?

10 Unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot
Check out Kedasha's awesome blog to unlock some awesome ways to use GitHub Copilot!

How GitHub's Developer Experience Team Improved Innerloop Development
Read about Innerloop and how your organization can benefit.

Checkout the GitHub Action: Evergreen
Keeping you up to date on your repo's dependencies.

Thank you Mario, Ione, Anisul, and Kedasha for putting together these great updates!

I hope everyone has a great Friday and we'll see you all next week!

What's new in the GitHub Community - 2024.01.12

April Yoho — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:53:50 +0000

Welcome to 2024! I hope everyone has survived their first week (or maybe it's your second week) back from the holidays. In 2023, we heard a lot about AI and the extensive features of GitHub Copilot. Let's see what 2024 brings!

This blog was not written by AI, at GitHub we want to publish a blog for you, the community, to allow you to catch up on the latest news from GitHub and to also highlight what the amazing folks out in the community are doing!

Take a look at Zane's blog about creating an Engaging GitHub profile, this is a very cool read to take your profile to the next level!
How good are you at creating pull requests? Sometimes we struggle with Git commands. Ezhil has written a great blog to help you get started or fine tune your pull request skills!
Thomas Thornton's blog is an awesome how-to on how to display your Terraform plan in your pull request.
Securing your deployments with PubKey, especially if you're using Docker is a really important integration into GitHub Actions. Check out the blog from Cloud Zenix.
Are you an IT Pro and want to learn more about using GitHub Copilot? Steve Buchanan has released a new course on Pluralsight, he blogs about the new course here.

If you’ve written an article about GitHub or find some great content about GitHub or any of its features or products, please share it with the #GitHub hashtag on Twitter or LinkedIn!

What's new at GitHub this week?

GitHub certifications are HERE!!! Follow the link and get certified: gh.io/certifications
Our very own advocate, Kedasha wrote a GitHub certification guide. This is the perfect all-in-one guide to help you get GitHub certified!
Learn how to securely deploy to AWS using OIDC and GitHub Actions with Mike Stemle and Christopher Harrison.
Get insight into your project contributors with the new Contributors Action. Andrea will walk you through the new Action and how to configure it.

Thank you Zane, Ezhil, Thomas, Kedasha and Steve for putting together these great updates!

Happy Friday and we'll see you all next time for the latest GitHub community updates!

Unlocking the Power of GitHub: Tips and Tricks

April Yoho — Mon, 22 May 2023 11:09:33 +0000

When working on any platform or with any tool, finding out about shortcuts that make your life easier saves you not only time, but also makes you a better engineer. In this blog, I am sharing with you 5 built-in features on GitHub that I absolutely love! Actually, that’s not true. When myself and Christopher Harrison kicked off this YouTube episode I planned for 5, but got carried away. So below, find 7 awesome GitHub shortcuts that will make your life easier as an engineer:

Edit your code quickly using the GitHub web editor.

When I am working on a project and I need to quickly open a web editor to make changes to a README or other document, I use the web editor. It saves the time of opening a project for a quick change, or even if you’re not able to open up and work from your default machine (or in my case, my laptop seizes up and I can’t open Visual Studio Code).

Quickly search for any file in your repo. I struggle to find files in larger, more complex projects. Being able to search for files easily, and effectively, even when you misspell something. I can access the files I need, fast. Even better knowing that GitHub code search is now generally available!
Highlight code snippets to create an issue or share with your team. So often you share changes that are made to a file, then have to give reference as to where those changes were made, that takes time, and causes disruption and loss of focus. Being able to highlight the code that I want to share, easy and fast. It also really helps me when I need to create an issue for something in my existing code base.
Link your pull requests with your Issues. Traceability and communication are two of the many components that build high performing engineering teams. While this is a simple feature, it ensures that you have traceability from your Issues to your pull requests, as well as continuing that communication and keeping your teams up-to-date. Linking a pull request to an issue is a simple feature, but one that I use every day.
Comment on Pull Requests in-line and add suggestions. Another game changer for myself and my team. Previously, when commenting on a pull request, you would have to hunt for the comments and find them. Often that took up too much time, especially if you wanted to make suggestions or changes to someone else’s code. Being able to make a suggestion in the codebase and easily accept the change AND add it to your pull request makes code reviews so much easier and faster.
Create saved replies to save time on comments. When work is repetitive little tricks like this enable you to save just a few minutes when commenting on PRs and projects. I like to add my favorite phrases using saved replies and emojis to respond to folks on my teams.
Bonus: Trigger a GitHub Action workflow when you close a PR. While this is just a trigger mechanism, I put this workflow into almost all of my GitHub repositories. This is my clean up task, I use the built in automation of GitHub Actions to delete any deployed cloud resources, confirm my PR is closed when a branch merges, etc. I am basically cleaning up after myself.

GitHub is more than just a source control system, it’s a whole platform of tools to help engineers plan, write, deploy and manage their applications. GitHub has evolved over the last few years at an amazing rate. To help, GitHub’s Enterprise Advocates have started a new series: GitHub in My Day Job, hosted by April Edwards and Christopher Harrison. While these episodes run live, giving you the opportunity to ask questions, each episode is also available on demand for you to watch later and quickly navigate to the content that matters most to you.

We hope that we can share our knowledge with you, the community. Please feel free to share feedback on topics that you would like to see us cover!

Further Learning:

Watch the full episode
GitHub in My Day Job on YouTube
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