Unicorn!
We’ve been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…
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Call Your Code
I don’t typically get excited about phone stuff. I dread making or receiving phone calls like a small child dreads vegetables. But this is cool. GitHub users @troy and @eric…
Gem Building is Defunct
Gem building has been disabled since the move to Rackspace. This was because the system had to be rewritten to work with the new architecture and we had to provision…
TypePad Developer Platform
Today blogging company Six Apart released their TypePad Developer Platform. It’s been covered on TechCrunch and on the TypePad blog, but the reason I’m writing is they’ve put GitHub front…
Multi Theft Auto
Multi Theft Auto is how you play multiplayer Grand Theft Auto on your computer. It looks pretty sweet and I remember trying it when it first came out a few…
Repo Search Autocomplete
Text in our global search bar now auto-completes repositories you own or are watching. Along with our dashboard tweaks this should make it easier to navigate the site. Enjoy! (Protip:…
Dashboard Tweaks
Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a “public /…
BioPython on GitHub
BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…
Renaming Temporarily Disabled
Both user and repository renaming are temporarily disabled. Sorry about that! It’s for a good cause. Should be back in a week.
Ack!
I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack Watch the project and start…
Ref Names in URLs
We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You’d take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…
New Project Root URLs
As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the “/tree/default_branch” suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course “tree/master” will 301 redirect, don’t worry.) Enjoy!
GitHub Meetup: Chicago
Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…
GitHub Meetup: Portland
Whether you use Python, Ruby, Clojure, or good ol’ C, we want to see you at the GitHub Meetup in Portland tomorrow, September 9th at 7pm at Rontoms. It’s a…
Git for Non-Programmers
@alecthegeek has a tutorial over at Sitepoint for non-programmers titled [Gi]( Your New Best Friend”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git/). img http://img.skitch.com/20090831-ci9ycpn1xcxct2yd7bx3b16kdf.png http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git Check it out if you or someone you know could use some…
Sparkle! GreaseMonkey!
Sparkle Has Moved to GitHub and Greasemonkey Lives at GitHub. I love when software I use daily moves to GitHub. Welcome!