Git
September Meetup: Source Control by Marco Ceppi
Submitted by Shaun Farrell on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 08:23This month we have Marco Ceppi who will be talking about source control systems.
Description:
Source Control and php Development: A brief comparative of Centralized
Source Control v. Distributed Source Control then a more in-depth look on how Distributed Source Control (Primarily Git) can play a vital role to not only a team/large project initiative but to individual developers/projects
Some Topics that will be covered;
- Philosophy of Source Control
- Why do I need source control
- Centralized Source Control (Ye Elders of the past)
- Distributed Source Control (Young warriors of the future)
- Git (Thundercats HO!)
- Why use Git?
- How Git works
- Basics
- Workflows
- Real world applications
- GitHub (Not just for Ruby people)
- Other Distributed Source Control tools
About the Speaker:
I'm Marco Ceppi, I'm 22, I work at Danya International, Inc as Senior Linux System Administrator and Lead Developer. I am also acting Source Control Manager (SCM) for all LAMP projects. I've been using Git for about two and half years now and prior to that I used SVN and regrettably CVS.
Giveaway:
This is what we have to give away thanks to Github! You can thank them on twitter @github

