A script to create an xml file for code_swarm to visualize contributions & commit history of a GitHub user across all his/her projects.

Full details: http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/27/ruby-swarms-visualizing-rails-git

To build and install codeswarm you will need JDK, Ant, and GIT, of course. For full instructions check the Readme file:

• http://github.com/rictic/code_swarm/tree/master

Alternatively, you can try the pure Ruby version (using Cairo):

• http://github.com/felipec/codeswarm.rb/tree/master

= Great examples of code_swarm in action

Wikipedia / Obama's Page: http://vimeo.com/2177573

= GitHub API http://github.com/guides/the-github-api

= Top Gitters: http://github.com/mmcgrana/clj-garden/raw/master/gitcred/RESULTS.txt

= Music: Credits to @gilesgoatboy (also @djgoatboy). http://gilesgoatboy.org

= Generating a video

cutting an mp3 file to right length:

ffmpeg -i music.mp3 -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:01:00 -vcodec copy -acodec mp3 music-cut.mp3

generating video from snapshots and mp3

ffmpeg -f image2 -r 24 -i ./%05d.png -i music-cut.mp3 -acodec copy -sameq ./video.avi -pass 2