Chris Wanstrath
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Continuous Integration Spring Cleaning
Continuous Integration is a fancy term for “run your project’s tests after someone pushes to the repository and notify interested parties if they fail.” We’re currently in the process of…
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…
GitHub Meetup SF #2
You know the drill. 7:30pm, July 30th at Eddie Rickenbacker’s. Look for me or @mojombo (picture reference). img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-xe664566tkqr7fxeqe3wn88g5i.png http://is.gd/1TRxW And oh yeah, rumor is @Tekkub will be here –…
Microformats on GitHub
Last weekend was a microformatsDevCamp in San Francisco. What’s a DevCamp? Chris Messina has an explanation. img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-fhntg8t8ia5capxuwsyhhp862q.png http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-07-25-dev-camp Now that the dust is settled a few projects have been…
Smart JS Polling
While Comet may be all the rage, some of us are still stuck in web 2.0. And those of us that are use Ajax polling to see if there’s anything…
PHP.git
PHP moved from CVS to Subversion. Why should you care? Because they’ve got an official mirror on GitHub: http://github.com/php. They’ve also published a nice mini guide to Git that you…
Git User’s Survey 2009
@jnareb tells us it’s that time of year again – the Git User’s Survey 2009 is up! Please take a few minutes to participate. Remember: all questions are optional and…
GitHub Meetup SF
We’re going to try and hold a GitHub Meetup in SF every fortnight (read: two weeks) at a bar or restaurant. After all, the best part of any tech meetup…
BBC on GitHub
The BBC has open sourced Glow, their internally developed JavaScript library. img http://img.skitch.com/20090708-j3njets5q1g11kd5phuiy8akxq.png http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow Check out What is Glow? for their FAQ or just grab the source right here on…
Git for Windows Developers Part 2
Jason Meridth has produced a follow up to his excellent Git for Windows blog post. The newest blog post details sign up, creating a repository, pushing, branching, status – all…
Amsterdam Meetup: Success!
Thanks to everyone who came out! I asked those present to share an open source project of theirs. Here are a few: simple_gate – A Ruby library for using net/ssh/gateway’s…
GitHub Sticker Showcase
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GitHub Meetup in Amsterdam
I’m in Amsterdam for Kings of Code (which was awesome) and will be at Cafe de Jaren Thursday (the 2nd) at 8pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090701-j9wkp5qcgwh873r1ckaah3fjjw.jpg http://is.gd/1ks44 Stop by and have a…
Push It
Yesterday you pushed 17,160 times to GitHub for a total of 44,287 unique commits. You also pushed an additional 9,577 non-unique commits. img http://img.skitch.com/20090626-qbmem33nmmwjnj7pygre22f654.png Thanks.