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alright so next we're going to have you sign up
for gravatar, github, and heroku. these are a little more simple than AWS
so for gravatar this is pretty straightforward you go to gravatar.com
type your email address here get your gravatar
it's going to make you do some wordpress sign up and so on
just bear with it and go through you know all this rigmaroll
at the end of this process you're going to have a page that looks
like this where you have an image that you've chosen and cropped
as your gravatar the reason that this is important is it is
like the little face if you have used facebook you have this icon
of your face next to your post and in a long thread it
makes it easy to distinguish who posted what
you're going to find in gravatar it makes it very useful
when you post code to github you want to see which commit came from whom
you're going to see this little icon will be quite helpful.
for github itself github is a very important website you know,
it started out as just the frontend of the open source program
called git which we're going to use a lot in the course
but it's really become a much bigger deal than that, it's almost
like an institution in its own right. like many ways,
your github account is more important than your CV in the technology space
if someone has a good github account, i don't care if they have no degree
not even a high school degree if they're really good at programming
your github account show that and i think that is characteristic of most
of the technologists in the valley so your github account is important
you can start off by going to github.com you can sign up by going through these processes
over here when you're done you're going to have a page
just like this you can kind of go through the instructions
and mess around, they've got tutorials and things and the last thing
you'll do is to go to github.com slash profile and you're going
to enter your gravatar email over here and you'll have your photo everywhere
with you everytime you do your git commits.
last thing to do is to go to heroku dot com and sign up there
you just click over here and go through that whole process
and then when you're done with that you'll come up to a place like this
don't actually go through this right now just pause there and we'll return to these
instructions in a little bit so now we've got github, gravatar and heroku
signed up