Helping with Texting
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…
GitHub Ribbon in CSS
@jbalogh has a write up on how to implement GitHub's Ribbons in pure CSS: Redoing the GitHub Ribbon in CSS img http://s3.amazonaws.com/github/ribbons/forkme_left_red_aa0000.png http://people.mozilla.com/%7Ejbalogh/ribbon/ribbon.html Daniel Perez Alvarez has a similar writeup…
TUAW on GitHub
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,…
Speedy Version Sorting
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…
unicorn.god
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 =…
Gemcutter Railscast
@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…
Unicorn!
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…
Call Your Code
I don't typically get excited about phone stuff. I dread making or receiving phone calls like a small child dreads vegetables. But this is cool. GitHub users @troy and @eric…
Gem Building is Defunct
Gem building has been disabled since the move to Rackspace. This was because the system had to be rewritten to work with the new architecture and we had to provision…
TypePad Developer Platform
Today blogging company Six Apart released their TypePad Developer Platform. It's been covered on TechCrunch and on the TypePad blog, but the reason I'm writing is they've put GitHub front…
Multi Theft Auto
Multi Theft Auto is how you play multiplayer Grand Theft Auto on your computer. It looks pretty sweet and I remember trying it when it first came out a few…
Repo Search Autocomplete
Text in our global search bar now auto-completes repositories you own or are watching. Along with our dashboard tweaks this should make it easier to navigate the site. Enjoy! (Protip:…
Dashboard Tweaks
Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a "public /…
BioPython on GitHub
BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…