ReactiveCocoa for a better world
Native apps spend a lot of time waiting and then reacting. We wait for the user to do something in the UI. Wait for a network call to respond. Wait…
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Engineering
How we use Pull Requests to build GitHub
We recently shipped a new About section. It has all sorts of stuff like high resolution logos, pictures of the GitHub team, a little bit about our story, recent press…
Akavache is now open source
Today, we're open-sourcing a library that we have been using at GitHub: Akavache. Akavache is an asynchronous, persistent key-value cache created for writing native desktop and mobile applications in C#.…
Fileserver Maintenance Wednesday Night
We'll be performing some scheduled maintenance on a fileserver pair this Wednesday (April 25th, 2012) at 9PM PDT. A small percentage of repositories will be placed in maintenance mode for…
All of the Hooks
Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…
Gist creation in 5 lines with Java v3 API
As part of the Mylyn connector announcement last week a new stand-alone Java library was released for accessing GitHub API v3. Below is a 5 line example showing how to…
Those are some big numbers
Every night, our friendly Hubot pops into one of our Campfire rooms and posts some numbers. Turns out we passed some pretty significant numbers in the past couple days. And…
Reply to Comments from Email
You should notice a small change to the From address on your email notifications now: they're no longer from no-reply@github.com. We're now accepting replies from most email notifications that you'll…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PST
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…
Recent Services Interruptions
Here's a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we're doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first "real" workday for…
The Tree Slider
Those of you running recent versions of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox 4 may have noticed some changes to tree browsing on GitHub. The new HTML5 History API (which really has…
Scala Projects Classified Properly
We just fixed an issue where some Scala projects were being misclassified as Java projects. Now, recent projects like Twitter's FlockDB and Gizzard show up in the Scala language dashboard…
Tracking Deploys with Compare View
We log a message to Campfire anytime someone deploys code to staging or production. It looks like this: Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you…
New Languages Highlighted
CoffeeScript (.coffee) LotteryDraw: { play: -> result: LotteryTicket.new_random() winners: {} this.tickets.each (buyer, ticket_list) -> ticket_list.each (ticket) -> score: ticket.score(result) return if score is 0 winners[buyer] ||= [] winners[buyer].push([ticket, score]) this.tickets:…
Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails
We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…