Chris Wanstrath

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

This morning we had some database problems. With help from Engine Yard we were able to identify the slower queries and eliminate them. Here you can see our database exploding:…

Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. The post is just insane.  A taste: I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed “git init”, and…

JeremyBanks and davglass have been busy: they’ve rewritten my gist.rb command line tool in Python. Check out davglass’ gist.py for the code and some enhanced functionality. #Creates a new Gist…

Ilya Grigorik has posted an article on visualizing with code_swarm. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own Scott Chacon. A video of Rails’ commit history is available in…

Angelo DiNardi has put the previous incarnation of CSH’s Drink machine’s touchscreen software on GitHub as csh-js-touchscreen. The Drink machine is a soda dispenser with a touchscreen interface that can…

Gareth Rushgrove recently gave a presentation on Django Testing. It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his django-test-extensions. Thanks Gareth! (As an aside,…

Want an easier way to manage all your conversation on GitHub? Check out CommitChat. They’re currently in a closed beta but you can sign up to join.  Great job…

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle. A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds…

BlogBridge looks pretty interesting: an open source, cross platform RSS reader. Their visual tour shows off many of the innovative features. And guess what? They’re hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/pitosalas/blogbridge …

The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki.  From the site: If…

I’ll be speaking at MeshU in Toronto on April 6th, 2009. So far the only announced speakers are myself and Ryan Singer (rjs) of 37signals. My workshop will be titled…

Compojure is a Clojure web framework similar to web.py or Sinatra. Your browser does not support IFrames The project also has a Wikibook and mailing list. Looks cool.

Old school GitHub user ivey has posted his Git Workflow. It covers small teams, large teams, and has a few tasty nuggets of knowledge thrown into the mix.  Thanks…