The latest blogs from GitHub

Hi folks, if you’re reading this, you’re on the new servers! I wanted to put up a quick update so that everyone knows what to expect going into our first…

BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…

 This Thursday, September 24th ride your pony on down to this week’s drinkup at Homestead, 7:30pm. Buy a bowl of peanuts for a buck and throw the shells on…

On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…

Both user and repository renaming are temporarily disabled. Sorry about that! It’s for a good cause. Should be back in a week.

I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack Watch the project and start…

We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You’d take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…

In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We’re aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…

As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the “/tree/default_branch” suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course “tree/master” will 301 redirect, don’t worry.) Enjoy!

Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…

Hot on the heels of my git setup script, user Sirupsen has made a Starting with Git guide. Okay, that’s a lie, he actually published his guide two days before…

The results have been tallied and the curtains have closed. The 2009 GitHub Contest prize of a Large account and a bottle of 20 year Pappy Van Winkle goes to…

I’ve been plotting to make the git and GitHub setup process a bit easier for new users, so I spent a small portion of my labor day weekend actually doing…

Whether you use Python, Ruby, Clojure, or good ol’ C, we want to see you at the GitHub Meetup in Portland tomorrow, September 9th at 7pm at Rontoms. It’s a…

Look at you. Fretting over your busy social calendar. You know its GitHub drinkup Thursday and yet you’ve just heard about the Functional Alcoholics meetup going on the same night!…

Rebaaaaaaaase. I’m always looking for great projects to feature, so don’t hesitate to let me know about yours! Featured Project redis is a key-value store that just hit 1.0.0. So…

A few days ago, the 2009 GitHub contest ended. I’m currently going through all of the top submissions to verify the winners and look through some of the code used.…

@alecthegeek has a tutorial over at Sitepoint for non-programmers titled [Gi]( Your New Best Friend”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git/). img http://img.skitch.com/20090831-ci9ycpn1xcxct2yd7bx3b16kdf.png http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git Check it out if you or someone you know could use some…

Thanks everybody for participating in the 2009 GitHub contest. Please push the source code for your entry up as soon as you can. We will start going through the entries…

The 2009 GitHub Contest is winding to a close – less than 48 hours until the deadline to get your submissions in. If you haven’t pushed the source code for…

Sparkle Has Moved to GitHub and Greasemonkey Lives at GitHub. I love when software I use daily moves to GitHub. Welcome!