The latest blogs from GitHub

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.…

We are battling for charity next week at the First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Invitational. If you’re in the Bay Area and think your company has the balls, sign up here.…

AppHarbor, an awesome Git-aware hosting platform for .NET web projects, has announced support for integrating GitHub projects into their build system. Set up correctly, this means that pushing to GitHub…

GitHub is in Tokyo, Japan and we would love to invite you for free drinks on Friday October 14. The event will be held at the Ruby Room Tokyo (東京)…

Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last. Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page! You can also use the context button to switch between organizations…

¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we’ve never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…

With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned…

GitHub is hosting a drinkup in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday starting at 7pm. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying great conversations with other NoVA hackers! Wednesday,…

This week in Brooklyn are two awesome events, Brooklyn Beta and Brooklyn Alpha. We will be hosting a drinkup this Wednesday at 10:30pm at Boat. It’s a cute hipster dive…

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year GitHub is offering a Pinktocat t-shirt to help the cause. All proceeds of this fabulous limited edition shirt will be donated…

We’ve taken the Octobooth out for its second conference, JavaOne. Stop by the booth and say hello. Join us and our friends from Tasktop for a drink at Jasper’s Corner…

GitHub was recently featured on SF’s local CBS news in a segment about proposed bike legislation. Our very own @kamzilla can be seen representing “forward thinking companies like GitHub” in…

Our blog RSS feed has moved to http://github.com/blog.atom Update your feed reader now if you want to stay up to date with all the exciting GitHub action. We’ve moved off…

Greg Borenstein (he hooked up our stoplight to our ci build system last year, remember?) and Devin Chalmers just announced that Drift is available on the App Store. Drift is…

Today marks the initial release of two GitHub plugins for the popular Maven build system. Downloads Plugin The download plugin allows you to upload build artifacts as GitHub downloads when…

A few of us GitHubbers will be in Seattle on Saturday, October 1st, and we’d like to invite folks out for drinks. We’re heading out to Linda’s in Seattle starting…

RubyConf is this week and a gaggle of GitHubbers will be there. Make sure you catch the great talks by @mojombo and @holman on Saturday. We’re also sponsoring the first…

The new Issues Dashboard. Now you can get all your issues on all your projects. Similar to the Pull Request Dashboard, the Issues Dashboard consolidates all of your issues in…