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GitHub Contest almost over!

The 2009 GitHub Contest is winding to a close - less than 48 hours until the deadline to get your submissions in. If you haven't pushed the source code for…

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Pro Git Review Copies

My Pro Git book is shipping pretty soon and I've been asked by Apress to give them a list of people to send review copies to. Since I really have…

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The 2009 GitHub Contest

Today we're announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…

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Pro Git Book

For about the last 8 months, I've been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…

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NY State Senate Code on GitHub

If you're in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…

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Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin

We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…

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Sticker Progress

I wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the stickers we offered a while ago. Tom asked you to email him if you were interested in some stickers…

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GitHub API, take two

A lot of people were excited about the Issues release yesterday, but many asked for an API for it. Because we love you all and you're so good to us,…

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This GitHub is going to the boids…

This morning I downloaded and ran Frock, a flocking chicken simulation written in Lua with Löve (a 2D game framework for Lua). Why? Not entirely sure, except that I remember…

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London Git Training

If you're in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…

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New and Improved Search

We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…

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Gnome DVCS Survey

In December, the Gnome team did a survey of its contributors about which DVCS they might be interested in moving to in 2009. The GNOME DVCS Survey Results are now…

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Only the beginning

2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…

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European Training

Since GitHub will be in Europe at the end of March (23-29), if any of our European friends are interested in Git training, please let us know so we can…

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GitHub in Europe

This March, GitHub is coming to Europe. We're planning on hitting the ApacheCon for a few days in Amsterdam to meet some of our continental friends, then flying up to…