Tag: GitHub

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Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git 

  • By Elena Neroslavskaya, Elena Neroslavskaya is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. She is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help and learn from OSS community and do great things on Azure or Cloud Foundry. When she’s not working, she’s usually learning, watching stars or hanging out with her family.

This article will show how to build a blog (or any other static content) using a very popular…

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#Hacktoberfest 2018: Thank you! 

  • By Jeff McAffer, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, where he and the team are helping to drive the company’s transition to an “open source engagement first” model. He was one of the founders of the Eclipse open source project where he was an active community leader, core contributor, book author, and frequent conference speaker.

It feels like we just announced our participation, but Hacktoberfest 2018 has officially come to a close. On…

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Join our #Hacktoberfest 2018 celebration! 

  • By Bernd Verst, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Linux, Containers and Python. Passionate about mentoring students and those early in their careers. German expat in Seattle who enjoys marathon running, jazz piano, karaoke, and learning Chinese Mandarin.

*UPDATE* Thanks for your amazing contributions to Hacktoberfest! Emails with the t-shirt redemption codes will be sent in…

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Hacktoberfest: Tips for growing open source communities in October and beyond 

  • By Stephanie Morillo, Developer advocate and content strategist at Microsoft. Ruby community member. Co-founder of #WOCinTech Chat, the initiative responsible for a collection of free stock images featuring women of color technologists.

For the last four years, DigitalOcean and GitHub have spearheaded Hacktoberfest, a month-long open source initiative that encourages…

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We’re joining Hacktoberfest 2018 

  • By Bernd Verst, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Linux, Containers and Python. Passionate about mentoring students and those early in their careers. German expat in Seattle who enjoys marathon running, jazz piano, karaoke, and learning Chinese Mandarin.

October 1 UPDATE: additional information on how to participate is now available here.  We’re excited to announce that…

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How to automate your release notes 

  • By Jasmine Greenaway, Jasmine is an NYC-based Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, who has almost too much fun finding interesting ways to use Azure and working on open source with .NET. Her development experience has led her to different development environments and industries, such as in retail with Sears, gaming with Rockstar Games, and prior to Microsoft, .NET developer tooling as a software engineer at GitHub. She also teaches the basics of web development as an adjunct professor at a local college and co-organizes a JavaScript meetup in Brooklyn.

Two facts are generally true for software releases.  One, as users, we wish software releases came with better…

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Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…