I just read that Posterous will now automatically include any public GitHub Gist URLs as code snippets within a Posterous entry. For example:
This is something that I've been wanting (or, in most cases, needing) for a long time. I'm hoping to get a lot more use out of this blog now that I can post code and cover some of the various topics that I haven't had the opportunity — or patience — to delve into previously.
There's a very interesting section from Guy Kawasaki's book The Art of the Start and that's the concept of GIST – short for Great Ideas for Starting Things. It's a wonderful way to get ideas and YOUR business going. It's also a great way to start a movement (like HungryPeople).
GIST
[ GREAT IDEAS FOR STARTING THINGS ]
1 MAKE MEANING. The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning—to create a product or service that makes the world a better place. So your first task is to decide how you can make meaning.
2 MAKE MANTRA. Forget mission statements; theyʼre long, boring, and irrelevant. No one can ever remember them—much less implement them. Instead, take your meaning and make a mantra out of it. This will set your entire team on the right course.
3 GET GOING. Start creating and delivering your product or service. Think soldering irons, compilers, hammers, saws, and AutoCAD—whatever tools you use to build products and services. Donʼt focus on pitching, writing, and planning.
4 DEFINE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL. No matter what kind of organization youʼre starting, you have to figure out a way to make money. The greatest idea, technology, product, or service is short-lived without a sustainable business model.
5 WEAVE A MAT (MILESTONES, ASSUMPTIONS, AND TASKS). The final step is to compile three lists: (a) major milestones you need to meet; (b) assumptions that are built into your business model; and (c) tasks you need to accomplish to create an organization. This will enforce discipline and keep your organization on track when all hell breaks loose—and all hell will break loose.
HUNGRYPEOPLE'S GIST
HungryPeople is about conversations. In fact, we would LOVE to have a Conversation with YOU.
HungryPeople is for YOU! That's our mantra! At HungryPeople, there's always a “table” for YOU. You'd never go hungry when YOU'RE here.
HungryPeople is always ON 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
HungryPeople's Business Model is simple – it's FREE (read Chris Anderson's book entitled FREE).
HungryPeople's MAT is simple: to start millions of conversations with YOU about stories, about people, about ideas, about life every single day.
Learn more on Guy Kawasaki's work at http://blog.guykawasaki.com/.
$ curl -u 'hc5duke:password' -d "status=going to flash my android phone just for fun" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
I guess gist embed doesn't work in posterous... poop
Gist is a great tool that can help you streamline and scale your social business. Interesting what they have done so far and what they will build on this platform in the future..tie in all e-mail accounts, twitter, linked in, salesforce.com and then keep up with all your contacts and what is happening. Also have a ego search on yourself to watch what the rest of the online world is learning about you.
They just went from beta to public and they have responded to my questions so quick on twitter. Follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/gist
I will be learning more on how to really rock this for my smallbiz clients and my Socialbiz cohorts....
swdyh's gisty at master ― GitHub
http://github.com/swdyh/gisty/tree/master
gistコマンドとの違いはこんな感じです。
- ポストするときにファイルを指定。ファイル名、拡張子つきでアップされる。
- ポスト時に複数ファイルを指定できる。
- ポスト後、ブラウザで開く。(Macのみ)
- ポスト後、ローカルにcloneする。
- 過去のgistにアップしたのを全部のclone、またはpullする機能
gistyを使うと簡単にファイル名と拡張子つきでポストできて、そのままローカルにcloneされるので、変更したい場合も、そのファイルを編集してpushすれば済みます。なので、Webのフォームを全く使わずにgist使えるようになります。ただメモをペーストする場合ファイル名はあんまり意味がないけれど、cloneしてあとで編集しようとすると、ファイル名があった方がずっと分りやすいです。あと拡張子をつけておくとシンタックスハイライトが有効になります。あと、gistyではgithubのアカウントで投稿することを前提にしていて、無名の投稿は想定してません。
Anyone who has been hanging around Github for the past few months has heard plenty of talk about gist, gists, and gisting. My investigations at gist.github.com lead me to believe that it was just a way to paste text or code onto the web, but I still had no idea what it was for, who would see it, or how it would be accessed. Here's an example gist:
One thing that's become clear to me is that I'm not half the hacker that any of the Github guys are, and as such, had no idea what a gist was. Well, when they opened their new support forums, I found it to be a good opportunity to ask the experts. I quickly received a response from tekkub:
If you hang out on an IRC channel for developers, you often find need to paste large blocks of code. Doing this directly in IRC is a very bad thing... But of course, there are other uses beyond that. Sometimes I toss handy snippets of code into gist so I can find them later if I need. It's also great for sending error output to someone.
Well, that's basically all there is to it. If you paste some code into their gist tool, it will format itself correctly and create a permanent URL which you can send to a collaborator or coworker. I had always just used campfire for this, but gisting seems to be the free, widely available version.
Github recently released an emacs mode for gisting as well. The above gist was created by simply highlighting the code in emacs and hitting M-x gist-region-private. It automatically created a gist at the url http://gist.github.com/4219a1d1dd2e76539579 and copied that URL to my clipboard. Easy as that.
Thanks for clearing this up.
