John PolacekChicago Web Developer

John Polacek is a web developer from Chicago who leads up front end at GiveSmart, runs ChicagoTechEvents.com and ships open source. Follow him on Twitter

Gisting

December 22, 2012

There are a lot of snippet organizers, but for me, the Github Gist is the best. I love making gists. Like this handy snippet for tracking outbound links in Google Analytics:

Or get random array item:

And more. Basically, any time I solve some little code problem (or more likely find the solution on StackOverflow) I just make a gist for next time.

(By the way, if you want to add Gists to your WordPress blog like I am, the Embed GitHub Gist plugin is what I’m using)