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Reston, VA Drinkup Tonight

It wouldn't be a drinkup if it weren't last minute! This is no April fools, we are actually buying drinks for everyone (and I have it on good authority that…

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Google Summer of Git

It's that time again. Google's Summer of Code project is open for student applications. If you're not familiar with it, GSoC is where Google will pay students to work on…

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Taipei Drinkup Tonight!

PJ and I are in Taipei for OSDC.TW and will be hosting a drinkup for all our Taipei friends at the Juliana Taipei at 8pm tonight (Sat, 3/26). If you…

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GitHub Drinkup, Paris Edition

It's that time again. Sorry for the short notice Parisians, but tomorrow night (Friday, March 4) I will be hosting a drinkup at Patricks Irish Pub in Paris. A bunch…

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NYC Drinkup Tomorrow (Tues 15)

GitHub is in New York City and tomorrow night at 9pm we're sponsoring the drinks at the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference at the Sheraton in midtown. Please stop by…

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Online Training Next Friday

Next Friday, February 11, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or your teammates need to get up…

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Mind Control with Frickin Lasers

Several months ago I hosted a GitHub meetup in Boston to which tons of local geeks attended and drank free beer. During that meeting, I talked to a local graduate…

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Arlington, VA Drinkup on Monday

I'm going to be in the DC area this weekend for Git training in Reston, VA through our friends at Jumpstart Lab, so I thought it would be a good…

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libgit2: a Git Linkable Library

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant - you can't link to it from another program because…

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Online Git Training Series

This December 14th we'll be kicking off the first in a series of all-day online Git training sessions. The series will be taught by our partner Matthew McCullough of Ambient…

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Git Notes Display

Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested…

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Ottawa Drinkup Tonight

I'm currently at the FOSSLC conference in Ottawa, CA and we're going out to Dantessa Italian Bar tonight starting at 21:00 (9pm for us Americans). GitHub will be buying a…

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Boston Drinkup Tonight!

Sorry for the last minute notice, but GitHub will be buying beer for geeks at Flat Top Johnny's in Cambridge tonight (Tuesday, August 10th) around 9:30. We're piggybacking on the…