The latest blogs from GitHub

Chad Fowler and friends busted out the amazing gitjour this weekend at RailsConf. It’s a simple RubyGem which lets you serve and clone git repositories over Apple’s Bonjour. I’m at…

If you didn’t catch Scott’s awesome Git talk at Railsconf today, you missed out. Luckily he’s posted his slides at http://www.gitcasts.com/git-talk.

This is most excellent. Just last night PJ asked for a GitHub TextMate theme on Twitter. Scott Becker answered the call: GitHub Theme for TextMate. Should go great with the…

RailsConf 2008 (and CabooseConf) is about to begin. If you’re heading to Portland, say hi. We’ll have t-shirts and stickers, as well as a big banner in the Engine Yard…

Dr Nic continues onward with his GitHub Textmate bundle.The newest feature? Line commenting.See it in action:TextMate + GitHub – how to comment/discuss on a line via GitHub from Dr Nic…

Meet the three gentlemen responsible for all your favorite GitHub bugs and features.PJ Hyett (pjhyett) is one of the two penmen behind popular Ruby and Rails tabloid rag Err the…

Wait, don’t tell me. I already know.Here’s the OS breakdown of GitHub visitors in the past month: BTW, the #4 spot? iPhone.

Dr Nic has just announced the GitHub Textmate Bundle.Check out a short video of the bundle in action, straight from the good Doctor’s blog:TextMate and GitHub: Show the current file…

Just Google it and click “I’m Feeling Lucky”. Our friend Google should take you right to the commit.(Spotted on the refactotum tweeter)

We’ve just rolled out a search box on every repository that allows you to search by a number of criteria.As always, your feedback how we can tweak the search to…

Our favorite host, Engine Yard, snapped a picture of the GitHub hardware and I wanted to share:Who likes a lot of blinking lights? I do! I do!

Kyle Cordes has written a guide on using Git (and GitHub) on Windows. It’s well written and covers everything from generating ssh keys to installing msysGit. Check it out if…

A security warning posted on the Debian security list today warns that SSH keys generated on Debian based systems (including Ubuntu) have a highly predictable random number generator. This corroborates…

A list of projects extracted and open sourced from GitHub can be found on the GitHub account. We’ve also forked all the projects we are using on the site. Meta,…

Chris Wanstrath of Err the Blog (hey that’s me!) just posted an article covering some tasty GitHub tidbits. Range highlighting, key shortcuts, keeping dotfiles in git, and the GitHub gem…

script.aculo.us, the popular Prototype based JS effect and control framework, is moving its wiki to GitHub. Pitch in and help ’em out. The GitHub wiki system will soon undergo some…

GitHub launched one month ago today.

The secret’s out. Popular Rails host Engine Yard recently issued a press release titled GitHub and Lighthouse Tap Private Cluster from Engine Yard. In it you can find some choice…

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. If you’d like to accept donations, paste your pledgie code directly into your README (we’ll display the image for you).This afternoon we’re rolling out the…

Many users are claiming coolness boosts of 90% – 100% after installing Dr Nic’s GitHub Badge on their blog. I should know — I’m one of them. Just look at…

Tim Dysinger has a great guide on Deploying with Capistrano, Git and SSH-Agent. Check it out to learn how to deploy your web app without needing deploy keys.