Facebook’s memcached on GitHub
Facebook just released their memcached fork. The enhancements are explained in this note. Since we’ve made all these changes, we have been able to scale memcached to handle 200,000 UDP…
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SproutCore 1.0
SproutCore 1.0 has been released! Check out the new CoreQuery which is the first step to making SproutCore JS-library agnostic. If you don’t know what SproutCore is, head over to…
Git on Windows (again)
Another good Git on Windows blog post. Don’t forgot about our Guide, either! 
Google Code Search Crawls GitHub
Google Code Search now supports GitHub. From the announcement: For Git, we now crawl repositories hosted by several public git hosting sites including GitHub and repo.or.cz. In addition to that,…
YUI on GitHub
That’s right! As mentioned in their YUIDoc announcement, Yahoo’s User Interface Library is now hosted publicly on GitHub at http://github.com/yui.  Be sure to check out the brand new YUILibrary…
Sound in the Cloud
Everything else is on the web, why not your music player?  Oh and look, the code’s on GitHub.
More DB Optimizations
Thanks to the pros at Engine Yard for helping us optimize more of our database queries. With a small team like ours, their support really makes a tangible difference. …
Smooth Support Logins
Now when you log in to GitHub and visit the support site, you’ll be automatically logged in. No account? No worries – one will be automatically created.  Nice and…
Using Git for Research
Jason Adams has a blog post titled 10 Reasons to Use Git for Research. Know anyone working in an academic settings? They may want to check it out. Academic settings…
Fork You: The Perfect Holiday Gift
We still have a few Fork You and Rebase shirts left. They’re the perfect holiday gift!  (BTW I wear a medium…)
Git Training
Thinking about moving to Git? Want to bring the rest of your team up to speed? GitHub now offers customized Git Training.  Visit the training page for more information.
Pushes!
You’ll no longer see a flood of commit events in your dashboard. Instead? Push events.  Commit events will still appear on your profile and in all your RSS feeds…
Maintenance Videos
We’ve had the same pool of YouTube videos on our maintenance page since we launched. Time to add some more.  Got a favorite YouTube video? Post the url and…
GitHub Userscript
Stephen Celis’ GitHubbub is a Fluid user-script which automatically updates your news feed and Growls you when updates come in. Pretty damn cool.  (And personally I loved the transparent…
Let Me Google That For You
Okay, it’s official: let me google that for you is the new RTFM. Someone on your team asks where to download solr. Let me google that for you. Your friend…
Developing with Submodules
Lately I’ve been working with submodules – specifically developing plugins / libraries as submodules within a separate project. Turns out, they’re pretty cool. I’ve written a short guide, Developing with…