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GitHub Rebase #14

Want to get on Rebase? Find out how. Stats Breakdown Featured Project dynomite is an open-source Erlang implementation of Amazon’s Dynamo, a distributed key-data storage that strives for high availability.…

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Twitter Apps on App Engine

@tav has created tweetapp, a framework for creating Twitter apps on App Engine. Twitter’s own API lead @al3x had this to say about it earlier: img http://img.skitch.com/20090217-nxnwx1wy576962pycgejnjj2ip.png http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1220086318 It uses…

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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…

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Repository Uploads

Edit: This feature has been replaced by Releases. This evening we rolled out a Downloads section for all repositories wherein repo members can upload files. Tag releases are also listed…

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Robust Archive Downloads

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-xrypc923ceu1pbj3kwxx714gm3.png Tonight we rolled out a massive change to how we generate downloadable archives. Now when you hit the zip or tgz icon you’ll see a “loading” box as…

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QuirkeyCode

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-ki5psk2u56umjyyrjexs7ejrid.png http://code.quirkey.com The most rewarding part of running GitHub is seeing all the great code and ideas that people are showing off via the site. Earlier tonight I saw…

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Fork You Sighting at Casa Bonita

img http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3258791960_c2411f2925.jpg Starring @3n, @takeo, and @lansing, and taken by @KirinDave (my old coworkers from Powerset/Microsoft). Some sleuthing shows this to have been taken at Casa Bonita in Denver. In…

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GitHub Rebase #13

Featured Project visor adds a system-wide hotkey that can bring up your terminal, much like games that allow instant access to developer console to tweak settings and run commands. Based…

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Lemur Scheme

For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…

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ObjectiveResource

ObjectiveResource is “a framework for the iPhone that makes interacting with Ruby on Rails applications dead simple.” Basically, it’s a port of ActiveResource to Objective-C. Want to drive a Rails…

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Fabric: Simple Pythonic Deployment

Fabric is “designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-mu1i9qjynj9r6fu467cwbsxdwq.png http://www.nongnu.org/fab It’s primarily for deploying changes to web…

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Handy Vim Links

@mileszs and Davey Strus have compiled a great list of resources for Vimers of all shapes and sizes. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-m3xmcardc6crk8nki92h3n2dss.png http://mileszs.github.com Best of all, it’s a GitHub page – which…

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JUnit

JUnit, the Java Unit Testing framework, is now available on GitHub at http://github.com/KentBeck/junit. The impact graph is quite fun – I didn’t know @clarkware was a contributor! Welcome to GitHub,…

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Chiplog – A Personal Journal in Django

Chiplog is a personal journal written in Django by @trey and @myles. It’s not a blog, more like a Twitter that’s only for you. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-mjfkj5fg19c3pd41pb33aigtuk.png http://trey.github.com/chiplog img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-87r7udtb99t2i2u9j5a2t1gcij.png http://treypiepmeier.com/code/chiplog…

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