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Not Just Code

cschneid and friends are working on a Sinatra book using Git and GitHub. Anyone can join in. They join the growing number of people using Git and GitHub to write…

Chris Wanstrath
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Moved to GitHub

Big weekend. HiveDB, the "open source framework for horizontally partitioning MySQL systems", is moving to GitHub. They're moving because Git rocks and so does GitHub. Sounds good to me. Check…

Chris Wanstrath
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We’re Web 2.0

A month or so ago Tom and Chris sat down with the Web 2.0 Show while they were here in San Francisco. The episode is now online. Check it out…

Chris Wanstrath
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Cleaning House

In the past month I've done a lot of traveling. Traveling means noodling - lots of topic branches laying around from airplane rides and hotel hacking. Today I decided to…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Support

Hey everyone, meet Matt Pruitt (aka guitsaru). He's going to help us out on the support front - mailing list, email, and Lighthouse. With Matt's help, we'll have more time…

Chris Wanstrath
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MooHub

One of my favorite people uses the MooTools Javascript framework and noticed something on the framework's website: That's right, MooTools development now happens at GitHub. Yet another awesome project has…

Chris Wanstrath
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Rails 2.1 Book Translation

Carlos Brando and Marcos Tapajós have written a book on Rails 2.1 in Portuguese which is now being translating into English - right here on GitHub! If you want to…

Chris Wanstrath
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Ready for Lift Off

Liftweb, the hot Scala (a functional, JVM language) web framework, is now hosted on GitHub. Be sure to check out the demo or follow their Twitter if you're interested. The…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Shirts

The 350 GitHub t-shirts we gave away at RailsConf 2008 last weekend were a huge hit! For anyone that wasn't there, the fronts say "fork you" and the backs say…

Tom Preston-Werner
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An Open Source Renaissance

Yan Pritzker thinks GitHub is leading an open source renaissance. Duh! This very simple idea of tracking the forking network of a particular project, and doing it well, is why…

Chris Wanstrath
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Git over Bonjour

Chad Fowler and friends busted out the amazing gitjour this weekend at RailsConf. It's a simple RubyGem which lets you serve and clone git repositories over Apple's Bonjour. I'm at…

Chris Wanstrath
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RailsConf Git Talk

If you didn't catch Scott's awesome Git talk at Railsconf today, you missed out. Luckily he's posted his slides at http://www.gitcasts.com/git-talk.

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub Textmate Theme!

This is most excellent. Just last night PJ asked for a GitHub TextMate theme on Twitter. Scott Becker answered the call: GitHub Theme for TextMate. Should go great with the…

Chris Wanstrath