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Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.

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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…

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Pro Git Book

For about the last 8 months, I’ve been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…

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Speedy Gem Indexing

As of RubyGems 1.3.2, the index generation code supports incremental index updates. What this means is instead of taking minutes rebuild all of the indexes for GitHub’s thousands of gems,…

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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…

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GitHub Rebase #25

It’s the 25th edition of Rebase! If you’re feeling nostalgic and want to dive through the previous issues, check out the archive here. Featured Project pinax is a Django-based platform…

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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…

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100,000 Users!

Less than a year and half after our public launch, GitHub surpassed 100k users last night. Thanks to all for signing up, here’s a simple graph I whipped up courtesy…

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