Multiple file gist improvements
We've always had the ability to embed multiple file gists: Your browser does not support IFrames But today we added the ability to embed specific files in a multi-file gist!…
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How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we've made in order to bring…
unicorn.god
Some people have been asking for our Unicorn god config. Here it is: # http://unicorn.bogomips.org/SIGNALS.html rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'production' rails_root = ENV['RAILS_ROOT'] || "/data/github/current" God.watch do |w| w.name =…
Unicorn!
We've been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…
Rackspace Move Scheduled for Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific Time
On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it'd be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…
Smart JS Polling
While Comet may be all the rage, some of us are still stuck in web 2.0. And those of us that are use Ajax polling to see if there's anything…
Git as a Data Store in Python (and Ruby)
I recently stumbled across an older article titled Using Git as a versioned data store in Python by @jwiegley. Your browser does not support IFrames Basically, it's a module similar…
Keeping GoogleBot Happy
One of the interesting side effects I hadn't considered when we rolled out some fairly significant caching updates on GitHub in the beginning of January was how much Google's crawler…
PHP in Erlang
You heard me right. php_app manages a pool of persistent PHP processes and provides a simple API to evaluate PHP code from Erlang. The blog post gives a quick overview…
Easy Git!
eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? ("SVN is good enough.") Know someone who would love to…
Scripting Bioclipse
Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…
Compojure: Clojure Web Framework
Compojure is a Clojure web framework similar to web.py or Sinatra. Your browser does not support IFrames The project also has a Wikibook and mailing list. Looks cool.
Gist for Greasemonkey
We're now appending the gist name at the end of its raw url. That means it's dead-simple to serve greasemonkey (or greasekit) scripts directly from gist.github.com. I was able to…
Dirty Git State in Your Prompt
Henrik has a great article explaining why and how to display Git's dirty state status (along with the branch, of course) in your bash prompt. topfunky prefers a skull and…