Why Git and Github? Git, a Distributed Version Control System, is very flexible, smart, and intuitive. It is also an industry standard among developers and designers. What is Github? Github provides hosting for software development version control using Git. It is a subsidiary of Microsoft, which acquired Github in 2018 for $7.5 billion. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, as well as adding its own features. It is probably the most accessibly social and most widely used Git hosting provider. Short History of Git Git was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel The Linux […]
So why IS JavaScript fun? First of all, it is powerful. Some may say simple, but I don’t think it is any longer. It is no longer the javaScript of 1995, when Brendan Eich created it in 10 days. It is no longer the JavaScript of 2009. It even is no longer the (modern) JavaScript […]
Brendan Eich, a programmer who worked for Netscape Communications Corporation, created JavaScript in 1995. It took him only 10 days to develop JavaScript, which then went under the name Mocha. But then the name Mocha was changed to JavaScript. According to Axel Rauschmayer in his book Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers, Knowing why […]