ByBrian Krogsgard
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I loved these charts from Yoav Farhi on the “half-life” of WordPress code. The charts were generated from scrips authored by Erik Bernhardsson that he used to analyze Git projects.
They show WordPress’s growth (by lines of code) over the years.
WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it’s basically a VIP 2.0. Many parts of VIP will stay the same: every commit will be code reviewed by…
Here’s David’s weekly roundup of recent WP and web biz/tech podcasts worth listening to. Also: Ukrainian startup Lemon.io on work in wartime and Sherry Walling on grief.
It’s a given that you need to know SVN to work with WordPress, but more and more developers are starting to use Git. If you’re just starting out then here is an awesome interactive tutorial on Git branching.
The official PHP Git server was attacked this past week. The attack is still under investigation, but actions were quickly taken to protect it, and there is no active security risk. To learn more, you can read Enrico Zimuel‘s explanation. Github will now be the main repository for the PHP source code.
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It’s called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He’s also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way to interact with WordPress and its SVN workflow if you’re more familiar with Git.
Upsource is a developer tool that provides IDE-level code insight to help developers understand and review code changes. It supports both Git and SVN. I haven’t used a tool exactly like this before, but it’s features look pretty awesome. And Upsource is made by Jetbrains — the company behind PhpStorm — so I would bet it is…
