Everyone knows Github right? If you write anything, in any development language – or even just do documentation then you have probably at the very least heard of Github. More than likely you use it too. But why?
Well, there are a lot of reasons to make use of it. It’s very lightweight firstly and this is one of it’s greatest features in my eyes. No slow loading Sharepoint sites or systems that are bloated to cater for stuff that, as a developer, you do not want.
I started using Github many moons ago and used to store code snippets there rather than entire projects. It’s so easy to just copy and paste a few strings of text into the Github editor and it saves into “the cloud” – ah yes that mysterious storage medium that means you shouldn’t have to worry about losing the data any more – but, and here’s my main issue with Github, you could have your account (or one of your contributors) compromised and all sorts of damage could happen to the code you have meticulously drank so many coffees over writing.
Oddly there is no ‘native’ backup solution and even though Github is “cloud” based you would be made not to have a backup solution in place to ensure you don’t lose all of your data.