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Chris Wanstrath

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The Tree Slider

Those of you running recent versions of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox 4 may have noticed some changes to tree browsing on GitHub. The new HTML5 History API (which really has…

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Random Hacks of Kindness 2010

Do you write code in your free time, for fun? Ever thought about doing it to save lives? Random Hacks of Kindness is a global hackathon on December 4 and…

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GitHub Jobs on The Changelog Podcast

Looking for awesome developers? Good news! GitHub Jobs and The Changelog have teamed up to showcase your job listings on The Changelog's popular podcast. Just check "Advertise this listing on…

Get Good with Git

Get Good with Git

If you have little or no experience on the command line, and no experience with Git, this might be the ebook for you: Getting Good With Git. From command line…

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Today’s Outage

A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…

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GitHub Meetup: Rio de Janeiro

We'll be holding a GitHub Drinkup on Tuesday October 19th at 20:00 at Botequim Informal Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. Come have a beer and get some GitHub stickers! (Thanks…

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GitHub South America

GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you're attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…

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Job Seekers: Spotlight on CrowdFlower

In our quest to make GitHub Jobs a great place for job seekers and employers we're rolling out a new feature: Company Spotlights. What are they? Short interviews with awesome…

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Business Time

GitHub's very own Eston Bond designed some awesome business cards. And yes, that's an embossed octocat.

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Git User Survey 2010

It's that time again: the 2010 Git User Survey is here! All questions are optional, but every answer you give helps make git even more awesome. The survey will run…

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Mozilla Labs on GitHub

Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabs Read the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub. Rumor has it we'll be seeing more from Mozilla…

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Grails y Git en Español

kinisoftware ha creado un vídeo en español explicando como preparar un entorno de desarrollo Grails utilizando también Git (con GitHub en remoto) y SpringSource Tool Suite. kinisoftware gracias!

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iOSDevCamp 2010 This Weekend

iOSDevCamp 2010 is being held at the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California this weekend. What is it? Straight from the horse's mouth: iOSDevCamp (previously know as iPhoneDevCamp and iPadDevCamp)…

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GitHub Jobs

You all know about GitHub Jobs by now, so we thought we'd kick off the official launch by highlighting some cool jobs we've found in the past seven days. Some…