ICotoi

For source code management, I've settled myself on using git for the last 6 years. 

Recently I've discovered git:blit repository manager which is a very nice git repo and user manager written in java. Since I've discovered this tool, we've integrated it into our development process at DeviceHub, and using it to manage our private source code repositories.

We clearly fit in the “So yeah, we tried Slack ...” category, so after a while of using slack and git:blit, I badly wanted to see commit/push notifications on our #devicehub-devel channel. 

I hacked a short git:blit plugin script that does just this. In the hope that it can be usefull to someone else, here is the gist: 

https://gist.github.com/icotoi/1e8a7345a6f53d09728c

I love Python and I recommend any programmer (or non-programmer for that matter) to learn Python because it’s easy to learn, easy to prototype an idea with it and it has batteries included.

Batteries included means that it has a huge number of libraries and tools available for all sorts of specialised and generic tasks, from advanced mathematics calculus (NumPy) to 3D graphics (Panda3D) and web application platforms (see Django and Tornado), that you can reuse straight away to build your next project.

This saves you a lot of time and frustration associated with finding and integrating modules written in different programming languages or poorly documented.

At DeviceHub.net, Python is the programming language of choice for most of the modules that comprise our product. All of our engineers know Python to some degree. Even our embedded developers who usually write code targeted at microcontrollers in C & C++ touch Python scripts and applications daily.

For the Internet of Things market, we built DeviceHub.net with the `batteries included` philosophy in mind. That is, providing an easy to learn and extend platform to help you build and manage your next IoT product. Along with DeviceHub.net, comes a wide range of libraries for the popular programming languages - of course Python, C, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, iOS, Java - and hardware prototyping boards - Arduino, RaspberyPi, Intel Edison etc.

And we didn’t stop there! Nowadays, in order to have a great product, you should provide your end users with a mobile app. To help you in this task, we built Android and iOS mobile barebone apps that expose all of our platform’s functionalities. We give you full access to the source code of these mobile apps so that you can rebrand and customize it according to your needs.