This post started life as an email to Mark Ewald in response to a conversation I had with him and Ritesh Kothari following Mark's presentation to our user group last night (Gwinnett, Georgia, Microsoft User Group: GGMUG). He was asking if Ritesh or I had used GitHub. What follows is my response (warning, I am not an expert, just a happy user).

If you want to see what I've done on GitHub my account is http://github.com/jeffa00

The hurdle is really getting used to Git, not GitHub.

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You can buy an awesome theme for WordPress. But spending money is painful.

So if you are as cheap as I am, you might say to yourself, “Self, why am I so cheap?”

No, wait, you might wonder how you can spruce up the default theme without breaking the bank.

That's exactly what I did for this blog. Assuming I haven't changed it by the time you read this…

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