The latest blogs from GitHub

@NV has ported ucnv’s Diff for Gist Greasemonkey script to a Chrome Extension. img http://img.skitch.com/20100127-nxct1q4y315uwen8nr6w896upk.png http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ekibhngllckenihijddjkmehiocljcpc Pretty cool – I’ve been using it since I first saw it. And if…

Join us on Thursday January 28th at 8:30pm for a drink at the Irish Bank! We’d hate to have to release the hounds. Stop by for a surprise visitor!

Rebase: good for reorganizing commits, squashing down changesets, and repairing dentures. Featured Project vanity is an experiment driven development framework for Ruby on Rails that uses A/B Testing to maximize…

Over the past couple of days, you may have noticed a new piece of UI, GitHub broadcasts: We’ll be using this feature to announce significant new feature additions and changes…

This week @kneath and I (with some help from The Changelog) rolled out Explore GitHub – a new page showing trending repositories, repositories recently featured on The Changelog, and recent…

As of January 1, 2010 we’re operating this site as GitHub, Inc. What does that mean for you? In a word: nothing. We originally incorporated Logical Awesome LLC prior to…

In Paris? Our very own Scott Chacon, author of Pro Git and internationally renowned Git expert, will be teaching a Git class on February 18th, 2010. img http://img.skitch.com/20100121-gamhsjqj25xjwqxx9heneiatu6.jpg http://trainings.sensiolabs.com/en/training/git Check…

@raphaelstolt shows how to close GitHub Issues using PHPUnit in his blog post, Closing and reopening GitHub issues via PHPUnit tests The secret? Implementing GitHub_TicketListener. img http://img.skitch.com/20100120-er3nuye656kk77pd83wibtudw4.png http://raphaelstolt.blogspot.com/2010/01/closing-and-reopening-github-issues-via.html Check the…

If you happen to find yourself in Wellington, New Zealand (perhaps for LinuxConf AU) then stop by The Malt House tonight (Wednesday the 20th) after 7pm and join Scott Chacon…

It’s time for Rebase #34! As always, suggestions are welcome if you have a neat project you’d like to show off. Featured Project jquery is a cross-browser JavaScript library that…

Know someone who could use a clear, hands-on introduction to GitHub? @nettuts has them covered. img http://img.skitch.com/20100118-mbutj6e8irbau8ms7uach741i1.png http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/terminal-git-and-github-for-the-rest-of-us-screencast Their Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of U (which compliments…

Update 1/19/2010: Page build notifications have been added to the list of notifications you can turn on/off and have moved to the Notifications section as well. Thanks! Today we rolled…

TinyMCE, an HTML WYSIWYG editor written in JavaScript, has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/tinymce img http://img.skitch.com/20100115-m19rkf3wb3panm2fhnw5gb6h9u.png http://github.com/tinymce Their announcement lists the main reasons they chose GitHub: Community Speed Ease of access…

I have a few quick Pages updates worth noting. Jekyll has been upgraded from v0.5.4 to v0.5.7. You can find a list of changes in the history file. And, by…

IMPORTANT UPDATE: We had the wrong address listed in the original post. The event is at King St Wharf, not Newtown. Join Tom and Scott next Monday at 6pm as…

This is pretty great: Gordon is an open source Flash implementation in JavaScript by @tobeytailor. Demos: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ img http://img.skitch.com/20100113-gc3h7hwadx1wdqn4pb6rhbjk8p.png http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos It even works on the iPhone: http://twitpic.com/xxmi2 I can’t wait…

@joshthecoder said, “It’d be great to jump to a random repository on GitHub. Like the “Random article” feature on Wikipedia.” I said, “Yes, it would.” Tada: Random Repository Drag that…

We recently rolled out a bunch of improvements to commit pages to make reviewing diffs a bit more pleasant. Diffstats Diffstat style histograms of insertions and deletions for each file…

Happy 2010! Hope your new year is off to an amazing start. With the holidays behind us, we are ready to kick off another season of drinkups at home and…

See the archives and more over at rebase.github.com! Want in for the next rebase? As you can see, I’m a bit web biased today, but I’d love to get more…

It’s great to see more and more companies embracing open source. The latest to put their code on GitHub is Palm, with repos related to their webOS product. They join…