Chris Wanstrath

LessConf is a conference about startups, design, marketing, business, and more taking place in Atlanta, Georgia on May 21-22, 2010. I’ll be speaking alongside DHH, Jason Fried, and other greats.…

GitHub is coming to a city near you!mojombo, schacon, and I will be driving from New York to Columbia, SC (for POSSCON), stopping at a few fine cities along the…

Both Scott Chacon and Chris Wanstrath (me!) will be at POSSCON this year. I’ll be talking on April 16th and Scott will be giving a Git tutorial on April 17th.…

Our very own international man of mystery Scott Chacon has been blogging some great blogs over at the Pro Git site recently: Undoing Merges Smart HTTP Transport Rerere Your Boat…

This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic.img http://img.skitch.com/20100308-pw11fgabs4ukqf89c29dy6wipn.png http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaicThis now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects.(Hat tip flangy)

CoffeeScript (.coffee)LotteryDraw: { play: -> result: LotteryTicket.new_random() winners: {} this.tickets.each (buyer, ticket_list) -> ticket_list.each (ticket) -> score: ticket.score(result) return if score is 0 winners[buyer] ||= [] winners[buyer].push([ticket, score]) this.tickets: {}…

@NV has ported ucnv’s Diff for Gist Greasemonkey script to a Chrome Extension.img http://img.skitch.com/20100127-nxct1q4y315uwen8nr6w896upk.png http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ekibhngllckenihijddjkmehiocljcpcPretty cool – I’ve been using it since I first saw it. And if you’re looking…

This week @kneath and I (with some help from The Changelog) rolled out Explore GitHub – a new page showing trending repositories, repositories recently featured on The Changelog, and recent…

In Paris? Our very own Scott Chacon, author of Pro Git and internationally renowned Git expert, will be teaching a Git class on February 18th, 2010.img http://img.skitch.com/20100121-gamhsjqj25xjwqxx9heneiatu6.jpg http://trainings.sensiolabs.com/en/training/gitCheck out the…

@raphaelstolt shows how to close GitHub Issues using PHPUnit in his blog post, Closing and reopening GitHub issues via PHPUnit testsThe secret? Implementing GitHub_TicketListener.img http://img.skitch.com/20100120-er3nuye656kk77pd83wibtudw4.png http://raphaelstolt.blogspot.com/2010/01/closing-and-reopening-github-issues-via.htmlCheck the post for the…

Know someone who could use a clear, hands-on introduction to GitHub? @nettuts has them covered.img http://img.skitch.com/20100118-mbutj6e8irbau8ms7uach741i1.png http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/terminal-git-and-github-for-the-rest-of-us-screencastTheir Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of U (which compliments their excellent…

TinyMCE, an HTML WYSIWYG editor written in JavaScript, has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/tinymceimg http://img.skitch.com/20100115-m19rkf3wb3panm2fhnw5gb6h9u.png http://github.com/tinymceTheir announcement lists the main reasons they chose GitHub:CommunitySpeedEase of accessFlexibilityWelcome to the party!

This is pretty great: Gordon is an open source Flash implementation in JavaScript by @tobeytailor.Demos: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/img http://img.skitch.com/20100113-gc3h7hwadx1wdqn4pb6rhbjk8p.png http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demosIt even works on the iPhone: http://twitpic.com/xxmi2I can’t wait to try it out.…

@joshthecoder said, “It’d be great to jump to a random repository on GitHub. Like the “Random article” feature on Wikipedia.”I said, “Yes, it would.”Tada: Random RepositoryDrag that link to your…

Ruby has Gemcutter, Python has Pypi, and now PHP has Pearhub!img http://img.skitch.com/20100108-j2gtgapb9a1s11fqeukw6tqfdt.png http://pearhub.orgWhether your project is hosted on GitHub or somewhere else, Pearhub makes it easy to publish. Check out…