Know someone who could use a clear, hands-on introduction to GitHub? @nettuts has them covered. img http://img.skitch.com/20100118-mbutj6e8irbau8ms7uach741i1.png http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/terminal-git-and-github-for-the-rest-of-us-screencast Their Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of U (which compliments…
TinyMCE, an HTML WYSIWYG editor written in JavaScript, has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/tinymce img http://img.skitch.com/20100115-m19rkf3wb3panm2fhnw5gb6h9u.png http://github.com/tinymce Their announcement lists the main reasons they chose GitHub: Community Speed Ease of access…
This is pretty great: Gordon is an open source Flash implementation in JavaScript by @tobeytailor. Demos: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ img http://img.skitch.com/20100113-gc3h7hwadx1wdqn4pb6rhbjk8p.png http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos It even works on the iPhone: http://twitpic.com/xxmi2 I can't wait…
@joshthecoder said, "It'd be great to jump to a random repository on GitHub. Like the "Random article" feature on Wikipedia." I said, "Yes, it would." Tada: Random Repository Drag that…
"Hey, why isn't anyone working this week?!" Actually, they're working hard. It's the Service Hooks that took the week off. 37signals released a Campfire API which requires you to provide…
This week I released hub, a command line script which adds GitHub knowledge to a few git subcommands. For example, clone: $ hub clone cytzol/cope Initialized empty Git repository in…
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:…