Chris Wanstrath

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Welcome Melissa!

Say hello to Melissa, everyone. She tweets as @luckiestmonkey, tumbles at http://luckiestmonkey.tumblr.com, codes as @luckiestmonkey, and now works for GitHub!img http://img.skitch.com/20090417-gtrdta222aruyhyuhjm8gcj5c1.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/3130143200She’ll help us run our growing business, keep you…

An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.
An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

YUI Git Helper

Everyone’s favorite @davglass has released his YUI Git helper to make contributing to the YUI suite of repositories even easier. The wiki does a great job of documenting the script…

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Six Apart on GitHub

Six Apart, the company behind TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, and other services, has begun open sourcing code on GitHub as @sixapart.img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-jt2m3dksnxejdmyrsfiscs7wqr.png http://github.com/sixapartThey join @37signals, @digg, @yahoo, @techcrunch, @shopify, and…

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Clojure on App Engine

@pcalcado has posted a simple Clojure app that runs on Google App Engine at http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate.img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-xg183ghfpi1tqcix2iwcct2h92.png http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mateHe’s also written a blog post explaining much about App Engine and running Java…

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Debugging IronPython

Michael Foord has written a great blog post summarizing some the recent progress @devhawk (Harry Pierson) has made on the IronPython debugger front. Check it out: Further Adventures of the…

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GitHub’s Birthday

GitHub officially launched one year ago.img http://img.skitch.com/20090410-1au52x6f4c1e4qrudkim7g6e3.pngThanks for a great first year, everyone!I’d also like to give a special thanks to @mojombo, @pjhyett, @schacon, @tekkub, and @qrush for being so…

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E Text Editor on GitHub

The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at http://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement.img http://img.skitch.com/20090403-hr3ngqymfe34s217b2dejd29e.png http://github.com/etexteditor/eIt was open sourced as part of their…

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Ask GitHub!

The four GitHub developers will be doing a panel at RailsConf 2009 this year and want your questions!Please submit them using this Google Moderator app.We’ll record the event, so even…

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MS MVC Invasion

@aaronjensen has posted the ASP.NET MVC source code at http://github.com/machine/msmvc. Fork it, implement your ideas (or suggestions as failing tests), then appeal to the ASP.NET MVC overlords for inclusion.(I heard…

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Sideline: Watch Twitter

Sideline is a Twitter app for Adobe AIR built with YUI. With it you can create custom queries and group them by topics of interest.img http://img.skitch.com/20090402-te2qnxwwj7y7ws21ye5qgwtj9f.png http://sideline.yahoo.comIt’s open source and…

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Easy TDD with Drupal

Drupal_TDD contains code and sample apps to simplify Test Driven Development and unit testing with Drupal.img http://img.skitch.com/20090402-kyk1tg6qs4uk74r6fgrpfkkaxi.png http://github.com/patshaughnessy/drupal_tddMore updates are on the way, so be sure to check out the…

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Pinax on GitHub

The Pinax Project, a premiere up and coming platform for rapidly developing Django sites, now lives on GitHub at http://github.com/pinax/pinax.img http://img.skitch.com/20090331-tt68mja4fbn9yy3hsh59kye4c1.png http://pinaxproject.comCloud27 is an example of what can be done…

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Goodbye AppleScript, Hello JSTalk

@ccgus just antiquated AppleScript by releasing JSTalk.img http://img.skitch.com/20090327-q79aywy3ngxrw4hwdh1s82emeg.png http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2009/03/introducing_jstalk__an_alternative_to_applescript.htmlFrom the blog post announcement: JSTalk’s goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon. […] You…