The latest blogs from GitHub

We just pushed out an updated header design for all repository pages, you can see it in action on any of our project pages The new headers fixed some long…

“Hey, why isn’t anyone working this week?!” Actually, they’re working hard. It’s the Service Hooks that took the week off. 37signals released a Campfire API which requires you to provide…

Since we launched Issues so many months ago, many users have asked for a way to see all the issues spread across all their repos. We don’t have a page…

What you want another drinkup? Fine, but this is the last one for the year. Primarily because the next slated drinkup Thursday would fall on December 31st, and if you…

Want to see your project on Rebase? Check out the howto! I also seem to be running short of interesting Git images as well. If you see any, and given…

Ever wonder how many different people contribute to a project on average, or how many commits the average contributor is responsible for? What about the size of the average patch…

This week I released hub, a command line script which adds GitHub knowledge to a few git subcommands. For example, clone: $ hub clone cytzol/cope Initialized empty Git repository in…

CakePHP, one of the most popular PHP application development frameworks, has just moved to GitHub (github.com/cakephp). You can read about the move at the Bakery. We welcome you, CakePHPers!

Yesterday YDN unveiled their new BrowserPlus developer portal and released the BrowserPlus Platform source code on GitHub: http://github.com/browserplus/platform img http://img.skitch.com/20091209-qnrjr5e6x4e8i721fcf6ug2b1j.png http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/browserplus_source_code_available_now_on_github.html They’ve also added additional repositories to the @browserplus user…

Every once in a while I find out that a project I’ve been following is actually open source and hosted on GitHub. Just recently I found out that a great…

Once again it’s Rebase time. Let’s do this. (Want in for next time?) Featured Project mongo is a document-oriented database that’s bridging the gap between new NoSQL tools and your…

After a long hiatus, we’re linking to merge commits again. We truncated merge commits months ago, because they didn’t provide any information beyond the shas of the parents, but now…

Dont worry fellow San Franciscans! There’s still a drinkup slated for the home front. We’ll be in SOMA at John Colins this Thursday December 3rd at 8:00pm. That’s right, three…

I’ll be in Philadelphia this week and my pal @trotter and I will be orchestrating a GitHub Drinkup on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:30pm at National Mechanics (map). If you’re…

I’ll be in NYC this week speaking about GitHub (RSVP if you haven’t already) and hosting a GitHub Meetup. The meetup will be Thursday, December 3rd at 8:30pm at Temple…

The Changelog is a new blog and podcast which keeps you up to date on open source happenings. img http://img.skitch.com/20091130-tikw7yti51ee6u2c9hsdnb1bkx.png http://thechangelog.com While it seems to be mostly Ruby-centric, it also…

img http://erlang.org/images/erlang-logo.png I’m pleased to announce that GitHub now hosts an official Git version of Erlang/OTP. The core Erlang team states: Beginning with this release [R13B03] we will maintain (and…

Update: We’ve launched GitHub Jobs, go check it out! Today we’re rolling out Phase 1 to our GitHub Jobs search engine. Under your Account Settings page, there’s a new tab…

Do you want to learn about OEmbed? OAuth? Are you dying to hear more about Resque? Is comet still just a buzzword to you? Are the mysteries of BERT-RPC keeping…

We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…

We’ve always had the ability to embed multiple file gists: Your browser does not support IFrames But today we added the ability to embed specific files in a multi-file gist!…