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Why Gist Powers Our Examples

by ew on 12/12/12, 5:24 PM with 7 comments

• by bryanlarsen on 12/12/12, 5:46 PM

  Even better than gists is to use actual running code for examples.

  http://gist-it.appspot.com/ allows you to do that, which we utilize in this tutorial: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/caching

  Even more radical is using git for a step-by-step tutorial: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/agility is completely assembled from the commits of this repository: https://github.com/Hobo/agility-gitorial/commits/master

• by slackorama on 12/12/12, 6:09 PM

  Maybe I'm a whiny edge case but this drives me nuts because gists don't show up in google reader or when I use readability.

• by j45 on 12/12/12, 5:27 PM

  Sweet use of Git!