# Author

The author is Josh Rhoades, a programmer, from Alaska. He believes in better living through computer science principals and [Penny Arcade comics][pa]. He uses [Vim][vim], [SSH][openssh], [git][git], an aging Macbook Pro.

[git]: http://git-scm.org

[vim]: http://vim.org

[openssh]: http://openssh.com

[pa]: http://penny-arcade.com

Giterary began atop a mountain, when someone said "We should write a book." Despite investigating many alternatives, no software solution solved this particular problem in a way that made sense. And thus a project was born.

The bulk of Giterary was created in the span of about 6 months, starting summer 2012. It was inspired initially by the [Wigit codebase](http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit/) for its minimal solution and its few required dependencies.

If you're interested, an article exists for Giterary on its [[CONVENTIONS|programming decisions and conventions]], plus [[LICENSE|licensing]] information, if that interests you.

Thanks go to:

* Mike Rutledge, beta tester

* Katy Laurance, beta reader

* My parents, for asking good questions

* John Gruber and the contributors to [Markdown][dfmarkdown]

* Michael Fortin and the contributors to [PHP Markdown][phpmarkdown]

* John Fraser and the maintainers at [Showdown][showdown]

* Christian Bach and the contributors at [Tablesorter][tablesorter]

* Remko Tronçon for his work on [Wigit][wigit]

* Whoever added the "--follow" tag to *git history*log*

And everyone who had to listen to me go on about this, and were disappointed that I wasn't actually writing a book.

[dfmarkdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[phpmarkdown]: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/

[showdown]: https://github.com/coreyti/showdown

[tablesorter]: http://tablesorter.com/docs/

[wigit]: http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit/