Gist on your Tumblr
Want to show Gists on your Tumblr, like Eric does? Then check out his Gistr. Use it like so: $ gistr -e tumblr@email -p password -t post_title gist_id
Chris Wanstrath
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Use bit.ly to Name Gists
Let’s say you’ve got a cool Gist you want to share, but don’t love the boring URL. No problem. Just use bit.ly. bit.ly is a URL shortener which lets you…
Mirroring to GitHub
The flogic guys have a great write up detailing their setup. They go into detail on how to setup a local mirror to use when deploying your app. Here’s a…
Blueprint CSS on GitHub
Blueprint CSS, everyone’s favorite CSS framework, has moved to GitHub. Straight from the horse’s mouth: Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time.…
GHC (Haskell) Moving to Git
The Haskell guys got together, evaluated the options, and decided Git was the best choice. It came down to two things: the degree of support available, and flexibility of the…
A Git deployment workflow
Bryan Helmkamp of weplay has published his team’s Git deployment workflow over on his blog. It includes a bunch of Rake tasks which we’ve Gist’d for your convenience. # by…
Testing Post-Receive Hooks
You can now test post-receive hooks by viewing the “edit” page of your repository. This’ll fire off a similar payload to the one your post-receive URL will receive on a…
Maven-enabled project hosting
mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either – mrdon’s solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…
New post-receive API is Live
The new post-receive API is live. The guide has been updated to reflect the change.
The Post-Apocalyptic Guide
Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru” has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…
Getting Real
A post I wrote about applying 37signals’ Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…
Upcoming Speaking Gigs
In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you’re at either of these events stop by and say hi.…
New Git Site
Everyone’s favorite Git magician, Scott Chacon, recently released an awesome new resource for everything Git: http://git-scm.com/ In addition to Scott’s Gitcasts, our new Guides homepage, and other existing Git resources,…
Embedded Gists
Okay, this is obvious: you can now embed gists directly into your website, blog, project overview, myspace page, whatever. Your browser does not support IFrames I’ve personally wanted this for…
New to Git?
Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy – A great guide for beginners Git for designers – No knowledge of…
Intro to Gist Video
bryanl has posted a video explaining Gist. Check it out! BryanL demos Gist: A Super Hot Pastebin from Bryan Liles on Vimeo.