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Fork You Sighting at Casa Bonita

img http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3258791960_c2411f2925.jpg Starring @3n, @takeo, and @lansing, and taken by @KirinDave (my old coworkers from Powerset/Microsoft). Some sleuthing shows this to have been taken at Casa Bonita in Denver. In…

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GitHub Rebase #13

Featured Project visor adds a system-wide hotkey that can bring up your terminal, much like games that allow instant access to developer console to tweak settings and run commands. Based…

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Lemur Scheme

For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…

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ObjectiveResource

ObjectiveResource is “a framework for the iPhone that makes interacting with Ruby on Rails applications dead simple.” Basically, it’s a port of ActiveResource to Objective-C. Want to drive a Rails…

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Fabric: Simple Pythonic Deployment

Fabric is “designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-mu1i9qjynj9r6fu467cwbsxdwq.png http://www.nongnu.org/fab It’s primarily for deploying changes to web…

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Handy Vim Links

@mileszs and Davey Strus have compiled a great list of resources for Vimers of all shapes and sizes. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-m3xmcardc6crk8nki92h3n2dss.png http://mileszs.github.com Best of all, it’s a GitHub page – which…

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JUnit

JUnit, the Java Unit Testing framework, is now available on GitHub at http://github.com/KentBeck/junit. The impact graph is quite fun – I didn’t know @clarkware was a contributor! Welcome to GitHub,…

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Chiplog – A Personal Journal in Django

Chiplog is a personal journal written in Django by @trey and @myles. It’s not a blog, more like a Twitter that’s only for you. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-mjfkj5fg19c3pd41pb33aigtuk.png http://trey.github.com/chiplog img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-87r7udtb99t2i2u9j5a2t1gcij.png http://treypiepmeier.com/code/chiplog…

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Emoji

What’s Emoji? According to this Ars Technica article, “Emoji icons offer a wide range of pre-built little pictures that add a little visual splash to your messaging.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090203-b8es9b5ftp4i8ay922m7ihrum5.png http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars…

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Folders to Pages

@judofyr has created a simple project called Grancher which helps convert directories got git branches. It’s perfect for GitHub Pages. Check out the repo or blog post. Thanks Magnus!

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Easy Git!

eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…

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Gruber Gets It

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

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Database Troubles

This morning we had some database problems. With help from Engine Yard we were able to identify the slower queries and eliminate them. Here you can see our database exploding:…

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Tracking Windows in Git

Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. The post is just insane. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090129-tx2gcdnhsgr8ybsapnh8u8mg9e.png) A taste: I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed “git init”, and…

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