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First GitHub Magazine Ad
This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…
Impact Graph Speedups
Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…
gh > hg
Surely you’ve seen the new GitHub gem features? Well it just got more awesome – again! Now you can use it in place of the normal @git@ binary. $ github…
Wiki Preview
More Slowness Eradicated
Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other “write” DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.
YUI Examples
davglass’ YUI code examples are now on GitHub – all 268 of them.  He’s also posted his YU in a GitHub repo, YU, and [YU]( DHTML Form Controls”:http://github.com/davglass/yui-dhtml-forms). Check…
The New, Improved GitHub Gem
While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…
GitHub at RubyConf 2008
The whole GitHub crew just got back from RubyConf 2008 this weekend, which went from Thursday through Saturday. I gave a talk on “Using Git in your Ruby Applications”, which…
GitHub Rebase #3
This week I’ve changed the graphs around quite a bit! The activity on the site just continues to increase, and surprisingly it didn’t take a hit because of RubyConf. Stats…
Brand new feature we don’t want you to use
That’s right, in the past accounts could not be deleted. Previously we advised users to downgrade to the free plan and stop using their account, but some people wanted to…
RailsRumble Winners
The winners have been announced! Check out the RailsRumble site for the list. Congrats to all.
PDF Receipts
We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we’re…
Fork You India #2
Looks like the Octocat is catching on in India.  From Flickr. Anyone know who this is?
GitHub Code Search
Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we’re unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we’ve been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…
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