Chris Wanstrath

Yesterday YDN unveiled their new BrowserPlus developer portal and released the BrowserPlus Platform source code on GitHub: http://github.com/browserplus/platform img http://img.skitch.com/20091209-qnrjr5e6x4e8i721fcf6ug2b1j.png http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/browserplus_source_code_available_now_on_github.html They’ve also added additional repositories to the @browserplus user…

I’ll be in NYC this week speaking about GitHub (RSVP if you haven’t already) and hosting a GitHub Meetup. The meetup will be Thursday, December 3rd at 8:30pm at Temple…

The Changelog is a new blog and podcast which keeps you up to date on open source happenings. img http://img.skitch.com/20091130-tikw7yti51ee6u2c9hsdnb1bkx.png http://thechangelog.com While it seems to be mostly Ruby-centric, it also…

Do you want to learn about OEmbed? OAuth? Are you dying to hear more about Resque? Is comet still just a buzzword to you? Are the mysteries of BERT-RPC keeping…

In SF for RubyConf? Join us this Thursday the 19th at Zeitgeist (map) starting at 9pm! Zeitgeist has pitchers and ample outside seating, so bring a jacket. Also: cash only.…

Behold the power of open source! @adamcooke has reskinned Resque’s web UI. img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-8c41b9jmdtyc79jc76yap53igc.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-jsqydh9jgg9ju4tkt66jqm2399.png img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-cs222tun9yna4s46ywt7jqdjqk.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-k3iuxw8hqsce86b5pdphsctsg4.png Also now includes live updating: img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-1nqebsad9kuac6ixaqgykqmste.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-88wn3wtc9jnacas3mytxxwn6c9.png Thanks Adam!

Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…

@ab5tract has a great post looking at GitHub “through the lens of the ethics of commons-based peer production.” A key quote which puts it in perspective for me is this:…

jQuery, which we use for GitHub itself, is now hosted right here: http://github.com/jquery/jquery img http://img.skitch.com/20091029-dbpp26n16mqwhxgrbscsgabf89.png http://github.com/jquery/jquery If you’ve never contributed to the project, now’s a great time. Welcome, team!

UNICEF is using SMS to help those in need. And they’re doing it with open source. You can read all about RapidSMS, their Mobile and SMS platform, but here’s a…

The Unofficial Apple Weblog, or TUAW, is now on GitHub: http://github.com/tuaw img http://img.skitch.com/20091014-p9c85ngu2yrhsr7jnrd888ex6.png http://github.com/tuaw While there’s nothing there yet, they only announced the account yesterday and said in the post,…

Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It’s used to sort a repo’s tags: This morning I ran the numbers and the…

Some people have been asking for our Unicorn god config. Here it is: # http://unicorn.bogomips.org/SIGNALS.html rails_env = ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] || ‘production’ rails_root = ENV[‘RAILS_ROOT’] || “/data/github/current” God.watch do |w| w.name =…

@rbates has a great (as always) screencast on Jeweler and Gemcutter. img http://img.skitch.com/20091012-rrf7756fn2kpqeqbx7qukg8xrn.png http://railscasts.com/episodes/183-gemcutter-jeweler Check it out and give Gemcutter a try! (mg looks like another good tool to help…

We’ve been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…