Risk Olson

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How we deploy new features

There’s been some recent discussion about rolling out new features. Ross at Flickr talked about using flags and flippers. Forrst mentioned their use of user buckets. The nice thing about…

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GitHub OAuth2 Support

My GitHub side project, Calendar About Nothing, has just been updated with GitHub OAuth2 support. I’ll be posting implementation details tomorrow in our API forum if any developers want to…

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Annotated Downloads

I just pushed a feature that optionally uses annotated tags to describe your project’s downloads. Check out how Rails describes their v2.3.5 release: Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 * Improved Ruby…

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API Forum Grand Opening

We just opened a dedicated API forum for all announcements, questions, and feature requests. To mark the occasion, we already have a summary of today’s updates, and a proposed change…