Chris Wanstrath

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F1 Web Challenge

Some of our friends in Minnesota will be participating in the F1 Web Challenge this weekend by creating a free website for a nonprofit. img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-euharguaq79mqtd8578g1behxa.png http://www.f1webchallenge.com Be sure to…

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Open Source GitHub iPhone App

@sschroed has created git-phone, an open source GitHub iPhone app. Ever wanted to peek at an iPhone app’s source? Now’s your chance! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-fbk2jpe14i5xen4n1r191mh2pa.png http://github.com/sschroed/git-phone You can find more screen…

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Updated Grails Mirror

There’s now an unofficial but updated Grails mirror at http://github.com/chanwit/grails. Follow along and never miss a commit! img http://img.skitch.com/20090225-x8imnrtinwmsj32i4ei5yfwyq5.png http://grails.org

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Twitter Apps on App Engine

@tav has created tweetapp, a framework for creating Twitter apps on App Engine. Twitter’s own API lead @al3x had this to say about it earlier: img http://img.skitch.com/20090217-nxnwx1wy576962pycgejnjj2ip.png http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1220086318 It uses…

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PHP in Erlang

You heard me right. php_app manages a pool of persistent PHP processes and provides a simple API to evaluate PHP code from Erlang. The blog post gives a quick overview…

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Lemur Scheme

For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…

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ObjectiveResource

ObjectiveResource is “a framework for the iPhone that makes interacting with Ruby on Rails applications dead simple.” Basically, it’s a port of ActiveResource to Objective-C. Want to drive a Rails…

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Fabric: Simple Pythonic Deployment

Fabric is “designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-mu1i9qjynj9r6fu467cwbsxdwq.png http://www.nongnu.org/fab It’s primarily for deploying changes to web…

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Handy Vim Links

@mileszs and Davey Strus have compiled a great list of resources for Vimers of all shapes and sizes. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-m3xmcardc6crk8nki92h3n2dss.png http://mileszs.github.com Best of all, it’s a GitHub page – which…

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JUnit

JUnit, the Java Unit Testing framework, is now available on GitHub at http://github.com/KentBeck/junit. The impact graph is quite fun – I didn’t know @clarkware was a contributor! Welcome to GitHub,…

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Chiplog – A Personal Journal in Django

Chiplog is a personal journal written in Django by @trey and @myles. It’s not a blog, more like a Twitter that’s only for you. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-mjfkj5fg19c3pd41pb33aigtuk.png http://trey.github.com/chiplog img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-87r7udtb99t2i2u9j5a2t1gcij.png http://treypiepmeier.com/code/chiplog…

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Emoji

What’s Emoji? According to this Ars Technica article, “Emoji icons offer a wide range of pre-built little pictures that add a little visual splash to your messaging.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090203-b8es9b5ftp4i8ay922m7ihrum5.png http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars…

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Folders to Pages

@judofyr has created a simple project called Grancher which helps convert directories got git branches. It’s perfect for GitHub Pages. Check out the repo or blog post. Thanks Magnus!

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Easy Git!

eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…