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Mirroring to GitHub

The flogic guys have a great write up detailing their setup. They go into detail on how to setup a local mirror to use when deploying your app. Here's a…

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Blueprint CSS on GitHub

Blueprint CSS, everyone's favorite CSS framework, has moved to GitHub. Straight from the horse's mouth: Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time.…

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GHC (Haskell) Moving to Git

The Haskell guys got together, evaluated the options, and decided Git was the best choice. It came down to two things: the degree of support available, and flexibility of the…

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A Git deployment workflow

Bryan Helmkamp of weplay has published his team's Git deployment workflow over on his blog. It includes a bunch of Rake tasks which we've Gist'd for your convenience. # by…

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Maven-enabled project hosting

mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either - mrdon's solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…

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The Post-Apocalyptic Guide

Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru" has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…

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Getting Real

A post I wrote about applying 37signals' Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…

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Upcoming Speaking Gigs

In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you're at either of these events stop by and say hi.…

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New to Git?

Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy - A great guide for beginners Git for designers - No knowledge of…

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Easy Peezy Capistrano Deployment

The guys over at EdgeCase have written up a guide on Easier Capistrano Deployments from GitHub. It explains how to setup and use the @:forward_agent@ option when you deploy. Nice!

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Dashboard Widget

The stand up fellas over at New Leaders have created a GitHub Dashboard Widget for OS X. Check it out - very slick!

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Visual Cheat Sheet

Even if you're a Git master, Zack Rusin's Git Cheat Sheet may prove useful. It's got a whole lotta commands ready for cheatin'. Thanks Zack!

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