Meet the Developers
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…
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What OS do you use?
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.
GitHub Textmate Bundle!
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…
Got a SHA?
Just Google it and click “I’m Feeling Lucky”. Our friend Google should take you right to the commit. (Spotted on the refactotum tweeter)
Git and GitHub on Windows
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…
Our Open Source
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,…
Tasty Tidbits
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…
The Fabulous Scriptaculous Wiki
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…
Rolling with Engine Yard
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…
GitHub Badges!
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…
Deploying Without Deploy Keys
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.
Awesome Git Internals PDF
New from Peepcode, Scott Chacon’s Git Internals PDF is sure to be a hit. If you’re wondering the ins and outs of Git, beyond the porcelain commands, this PDF is…
It’s a mirror
Looks like jakobo had some hard drive troubles this weekend. Ouch. Luckily, thanks to backups and GitHub, he didn’t lose much. I did a fresh install upgrade from Tiger to…
The GitHub Podcast…
…is coming soon. But we need your help! Please send us any Git or GitHub related questions so we can answer them on the show. You can ask questions via…