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Dashboard for iPad

hongrich's iPad app, Dashboard, was rejected by Apple so he open sourced it: http://github.com/hongrich/Dashboard Check the demo: Looks cool, a shame it's not in the App Store.

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cURL on GitHub

You know you love it. Now that cURL is 12 years old (happy birthday!), it's moved to git and GitHub. Follow along: http://github.com/bagder/curl

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Repopular Repos

Repopular is a new way to find popular code. Built by chad and marchdoe, the site uses Twitter to surface repos people are talking about right now. Even better -…

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Chris speaking at LessConf 3010

LessConf is a conference about startups, design, marketing, business, and more taking place in Atlanta, Georgia on May 21-22, 2010. I'll be speaking alongside DHH, Jason Fried, and other greats.…

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The GitHub East Coast Tour

GitHub is coming to a city near you! mojombo, schacon, and I will be driving from New York to Columbia, SC (for POSSCON), stopping at a few fine cities along…

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GitHub at POSSCON

Both Scott Chacon and Chris Wanstrath (me!) will be at POSSCON this year. I'll be talking on April 16th and Scott will be giving a Git tutorial on April 17th.…

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Pro Git Bloggin’

Our very own international man of mystery Scott Chacon has been blogging some great blogs over at the Pro Git site recently: Undoing Merges Smart HTTP Transport Rerere Your Boat…

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NCSA Mosaic on GitHub

This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic. img http://img.skitch.com/20100308-pw11fgabs4ukqf89c29dy6wipn.png http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic This now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects. (Hat tip flangy)

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New Languages Highlighted

CoffeeScript (.coffee) LotteryDraw: { play: -> result: LotteryTicket.new_random() winners: {} this.tickets.each (buyer, ticket_list) -> ticket_list.each (ticket) -> score: ticket.score(result) return if score is 0 winners[buyer] ||= [] winners[buyer].push([ticket, score]) this.tickets:…

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Diff Your Gist

@NV has ported ucnv's Diff for Gist Greasemonkey script to a Chrome Extension. img http://img.skitch.com/20100127-nxct1q4y315uwen8nr6w896upk.png http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ekibhngllckenihijddjkmehiocljcpc Pretty cool - I've been using it since I first saw it. And if…

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Explore GitHub

This week @kneath and I (with some help from The Changelog) rolled out Explore GitHub - a new page showing trending repositories, repositories recently featured on The Changelog, and recent…

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Paris Git Training

In Paris? Our very own Scott Chacon, author of Pro Git and internationally renowned Git expert, will be teaching a Git class on February 18th, 2010. img http://img.skitch.com/20100121-gamhsjqj25xjwqxx9heneiatu6.jpg http://trainings.sensiolabs.com/en/training/git Check…

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Closing Issues with PHPUnit

@raphaelstolt shows how to close GitHub Issues using PHPUnit in his blog post, Closing and reopening GitHub issues via PHPUnit tests The secret? Implementing GitHub_TicketListener. img http://img.skitch.com/20100120-er3nuye656kk77pd83wibtudw4.png http://raphaelstolt.blogspot.com/2010/01/closing-and-reopening-github-issues-via.html Check the…