There is today no more business which has nothing to do with software. “Even John Deere, the tractor manufacturer, is convinced of the importance of software and now collects data on their tractors,” says Brian Doll, VP Strategy at GitHub. GitHub grew within a few years to become the largest software development platform in the world and now has local staff to support Dutch businesses.
The figures on GitHub to say the least impressive. Since its launch in early 2008, the company quickly grew from one platform to work on code online with others, to a company that earns its money by offering a special on-premise enterprise editions of the platform. Github was founded by some developers. They signaled, like any smart entrepreneur, a problem where they had a solution based on the idea behind the OpenSolaris project by Sun Microsystems in 1993, with the company a community around the development of its software on trying to continue this free made available.
Team Sport
“What many people do not realize enough is that writing software is a team sport,” says Brian Doll, who for the occasion of the opening of the Dutch support department to Amsterdam has come. Brian is referring to the way software is written, a whole team of developers working on the same piece of code and use the Git revision control to track changes and ensure they have the latest version of the program. “That’s the heart of software delivery, together make quite a lot of small changes and quickly jump from project to project, everywhere you wear something with a new version.” These versions are kept in a repository or repo. “What we saw was that Git, which at that time was becoming more popular, had an Achilles heel: code was spread across different sources. We needed centralization. A hub for Git repositories as it were. “So were the concept and the name found, but striking was the rapid influx of users. There are now more than 23.7 million project on GitHub and there are 9.8 million registered users. There is also the on-premise enterprise version, which GitHub also associate a business model to its platform did. And with success. “Companies like to have everything as centrally as possible, preferably in one place,” says Brian. “Additionally, identity management is important so that only the right people get at the data. Funny thing is that other companies follow our business model. You can free to work with GitHub, but would you rather work for a private project, you can pay for it. You want the whole platform in real house so you have complete control, then you need to get started with the enterprise edition.
In order to support these good GitHub now starts rolling out support- departments in the Netherlands, England and France. “It’s a matter of looking where your customers are. Europe accounts for 36 percent of all traffic on GitHub and with the advent of the Enterprise edition, it has become increasingly important to provide good support. What we see is that software is increasingly essential for businesses, there really is no enterprise more to do not with it. If you look at the top three things that a company wants to focus on in the coming years, it is always there in software development. We want to ensure that software is an integral part of the DNA of companies. Development is an industry in itself has become in recent years, which is reflected in the whole company. “
Everyone to the
According to Brian will soon have employees in every department within a now at least have a little knowledge of software. “If something does not need to outsource, you have more control over and can you get profit. This is not to say that everyone in the company should be able to write code, but it helps if you’re at least interested in and understands the basics. “In this way it is for real developers in a company namely much easier work. “They can get instant feedback, this process and ship the finished product. So software is not a burden, but an advantage for your company. Companies also increasingly experienced as frustrating when they themselves can not participate in that development. “What many entrepreneurs also like is that there is already a lot of code is publicly available on the platform. “You just have to build that which is important for your company, the rest is commonplace and available to everyone. Those 23 million projects form the base layer of technology available for your project. You can build on the work of the best programmers in the world, which is something that does not know the corporate world. There, everyone works in essence past each other, while eventually all those employees with a certain bedrijfsapp need to work. ‘If you for example have a question, do not you couple that with the one with the most knowledge, but mostly to the programmer you encounter the first, who happens to be working on your floor.
Fast unlock knowledge
An important aim of GitHub is therefore that you have the opportunity to your questions or comments there to lay down where real knowledge is that you need. “You do not even know that person, you ask your question just to the team that is currently working with the software and get answers from the person who can best answer your question. This provides a real cultural change within companies; always have the right person available to answer a question correctly and be able to process any feedback immediately. Each company sees startups operate at a speed that they can not keep and frustrates the fact that their enterprise software does not work as well and does not look as good as software for consumers. Why can a consumer within ten minutes a little blog tapping into each other that looks good and you are within a company doing an hour, after which it still does not look? “” You currently sees a pattern of change in companies the conversation that we have with them is also different than before. People within companies to use our tools like and it is contagious. This is also because there is only a limited amount of talent. If your company wants now known as enterprise using our tools, because this attracts talent again. “For GitHub itself the new focus on entrepreneurs also means that more of the company expects in the form of support. “We are always looking for the role we can play the best and at present advice is an important part of it. The old tools that companies are no longer enough, they have to work in a different way. You can not succeed alone. Eventually all want to achieve. Rapidly develop good software
Learn to write code
Recently, there are several projects where you write yourself to the principles of code can bring?. Also on GitHub you for this visit, there are several tutorials online that you can get the basics down. We recommend because of the high entry level yet to start a treetje lower. One of the best known websites to learn coding is codeacademy.com. Here, in an understandable way how code works, why they build code in this way and how you tap your first lines of code. You will learn simple commands write in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python and Ruby. Would you rather be taught by a real teacher, check Udacity.com. This is a programmeerles at Stanford University that you can complete online tracking. The assessment of your work takes place in GitHub. Would you rather playfully started, try Code Racer, in which you learn the basics of HTML and CSS and is challenged to write faster and better optimized code. For more information, visit github.com.
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