The latest blogs from GitHub

It’s Cyber Monday and we’ve decided to do something special. For today only you can get 25% off any orders you make at The GitHub Shop! Sale ends Tuesday morning…

This December 14th we’ll be kicking off the first in a series of all-day online Git training sessions. The series will be taught by our partner Matthew McCullough of Ambient…

libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few…

I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…

If you have little or no experience on the command line, and no experience with Git, this might be the ebook for you: Getting Good With Git. From command line…

We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…

A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…

This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We’ve been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…

Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…

A few months ago I contacted one of my favorite local San Francisco artists, Sirron Norris, to see if he would create a custom piece for us featuring the Octocat,…

Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…

Here at GitHub we take our t-shirts seriously. So far we’ve produced the world famous “fork you” shirt, and the sold-out limited edition “all your rebase are belong to us”…

A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user’s HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…

I’d like to welcome Basho, the makers of Riak, to GitHub. Mark Phillips posted to the Riak mailing list that they have started developing Riak and their other projects primarily…

We’ll be holding a GitHub Drinkup on Tuesday October 19th at 20:00 at Botequim Informal Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. Come have a beer and get some GitHub stickers! (Thanks…

GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you’re attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…

We’re getting back into the swing of meetups and would love it if you would join us this Thursday, October 14th at Thee Parkside. Its supposed to be a beautiful…

We’d like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for…

In our quest to make GitHub Jobs a great place for job seekers and employers we’re rolling out a new feature: Company Spotlights. What are they? Short interviews with awesome…

Update: Uploads have been deprecated A couple of weeks ago, downloads on GitHub were everywhere — we had the Download Source buttons, the Downloads tab, and, some clicks away, perhaps…

The Ruby and Rails European Conference is being held on October 21-22nd at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. Also, Corey Haines is putting on another Code Retreat on the 23rd.…