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For Launchpad projects, it is possible to offer community support thanks to the Questions & Answers. How can I enable similar functionality for my Github project? Is there something already offered by Github, or some other site? The purpose is to help with for example software installation.
I believe there's nothing like that on GitHub. However, exploiting available tools, I would use the project wiki to build a knowledge base about your software, and the issue tracker (perhaps with some kind of "documentation" category/label) as a mean to reproduce Q&A threads, which ideally should result in a wiki page (that you'll need to put together yourself) with some kind of definitive answer to the specific question.
There is no Q&A functionality in Github. Q&As and forums can, however, be created at other sites, for example googlegroups.
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Would using GitHub as a work experience portfolio, including personal projects in various languages/frameworks, be a good practice when seeking employment?
Yes. You'll want to target the specific companies you are applying to, as well. For example, does the company you are targeting value, use, or promote open source projects? Then find some contributions you can make, especially if that company has their own open source projects on GitHub.com.
Definitely host your own projects with a very clear README.md that explains the purpose of the project, anything that showcases design decisions you made, and clear instructions on how to launch/run your project.
No, Since github functions as a site where you host your codes, employers won't have time to access and examine each of your codes.
Yes,
Your future employer may not check out your code, but it will prove that development is your hobby and not only your job.
Put your github repo link in your resume
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I'm looking for a premade IRC bot, that i can easily install on some of my channels. They are mainly support channels, so we will need to be able to add commands to give out important notices etc.
All help is much appretiated.
You should have a look at Supybot. It's an extensible and easily configurable IRC bot written in Python. You will find many plug-ins on the official website or on GitHub. If you happen to know some Python, it is probably your best option.
You could also try Eggdrop (or Windrop which is basically an Eggdrop version for Windows). Many TCL scripts (extensions) are available pretty much everywhere.
I suggest you to visit the IRC-Wiki which could be useful when you need information about anything related to IRC.
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I am looking for a a free template or tool to help creating an online user's guide (manual) for a web-based system. I have been searching on the web for hours and just found some expensive commercial solutions with too many functionalities.
I am trying to create something like http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp. Just checked that eclipse has one but seems that can be used just on eclipse RCP projects.
Do you know any free tool or template for this task? I would really appreciate any help.
Many thanks,
Thiago
Docbook good but there's a learning curve...
Why not use an open source wiki? Or something like Doxygen will auto-generate help like documentation from source code.
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There are many free online Source Control available but I would like to know your experience on it, if any, and which is the best one?
Me and my friend are starting a small test project and would like some really good online source control.
We will be developing ASP.Net app.
If you're just after a hosted source code repository:
Github
Bitbucket
If you need issue tracking, file releases, wikis, mailing lists, etc:
Sourceforge
Google Code Hosting
I've got one project at Sourceforge, and I find the amenities quite nice. You might find this comparison handy.
I'm using Unfuddle for some personal stuff to avoid issues with corporate firewalls.
You can commit over http with them.
Otherwise, use Github as already suggested.
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I recently read through Code Complete, and it recommends that I create a project specification before actually coding.
The book didn't go very far into detail about what 'specs' are, and how they are made. Because this is a crucial part of software development, I would like to know how to create quality specs that are not too exhaustive.
Where can I learn more about software specifications? Or any of the other prerequisites outlined in Code Complete?
Here's Joel's article on Function Design documents.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html
If you are looking for books, I can recommend two right now, and in fact, I ordered a third because it looked good.
The two I can recommend fully are:
Software Requirements (2nd Edition)
More about Software Requirements
I also ordered a third book:
Software Requirements Patterns
Joel Spolsky posted the functional spec to his CoPilot application along with a brief blog post about it.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/AardvarkSpec.html