Submit work via Blog RSS and GitHub
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
Subscribing to a website RSS removes the need for the user to manually check the website for new content. Instead, their browser constantly monitors the site and informs the user of any updates. The browser can also be commanded to automatically download the new data for the user.
RSS is basically an structured XML document that includes full or summarized text along with other metadata such as published date, author name, etc. RSS feeds can be read by using programs called “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator” which can be web-based, desktop-based, and even mobile-based.
In orfer to Submit your work you first have to be registered to Ken’s page. What this does is it adds your blog to the RSS feed on Ken’s page. Go to tags and add an specific keyword. For example, if you have done a WSQ you have to tag your blog post in this “tags” section and specify which WSQ it is.
GitHub
GitHub provides you with a user interface app that lets you upload your work to github. You can also use git in the command line but this is way easier. So too upload your work to github, download the desktop application. It is available at https://desktop.github.com. Once you have downloaded and installed github open it and create a repository. A repository is a digital directory or storage space where you can access your project, its files, and all the versions of its files that Git saves. So drag your files to the github window. GitHub will ask you if you would like to create a new git repository Click on create and add
All Git repositories are based on commits, commits are snapshots of your code at a point in time. You need to make at least one commit before you can push your code up to GitHub.com.
Click create and add
Go to the Changes tab and click Commit to create your first commit. Everything you change your files you will have to make a new commit, this will help you with version control.
Make as many commits as you like locally. No one but you can see those commits until you push them to GitHub.com.
Click the “Publish” button in the upper-right corner and GitHub Desktop will ask you what kind of repository to create:
Public repository — Anyone can see this, but you choose who can make changes) to it. You can
Private repository — only you can see your repository but You have the option of choosing who can see and commit to this repository by adding collaborators.
So now your repository is saved remotely on github and locally on your computer.
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