The latest blogs from GitHub

I’m in Amsterdam for Kings of Code (which was awesome) and will be at Cafe de Jaren Thursday (the 2nd) at 8pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090701-j9wkp5qcgwh873r1ckaah3fjjw.jpg http://is.gd/1ks44 Stop by and have a…

Welcome back to Rebase! Want your project featured? Check out the guidelines and remember: the more information on your README/project page the better! Featured Project blue-ridge is a no-hassle JavaScript…

Yesterday you pushed 17,160 times to GitHub for a total of 44,287 unique commits. You also pushed an additional 9,577 non-unique commits. img http://img.skitch.com/20090626-qbmem33nmmwjnj7pygre22f654.png Thanks.

@hivelogic has a great, in-depth tutorial on Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano. img http://img.skitch.com/20090625-px5tn5xx49w1qi97apmj96ehtu.png http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/deploying-expressionengine-github-capistrano Thanks Dan!

Inspired by the Merb Internals Handbook, the Grails community has begun working on a handbook of their own: The Grails Internals Handbook. From the README: If you want to contribute,…

If you’re in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…

Great blog post. Useful whether you’re on Unix or Windows. Using GitHub Through Draconian Proxies Thanks Jeff! (And sorry you’re stuck behind a proxy 🙂

If so, @dinoboff has you covered! github-tools includes a “PasteScript template, Paver tasks and Sphinx extension to setup a new package and easily host it on GitHub (including its documentation)”.…

It’s Rebase time once again! Featured Project clojure is a functional programming language based on Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It recently hit a pretty huge milestone…

Yahoo’s openness continues today with their announcement of their Hadoop distribution being hosted right here on GitHub: http://github.com/yahoo/hadoop. p=. Read all about it on Yahoo’s Developer Blog.

This past week since our initial offering of our Firewall Install product has been an exciting one. We received over 300 quote requests on launch day, with more filling our…

We’re excited to announce the launch of Logical Awesome’s latest product: GitHub:Firewall Install What Is it? GitHub:FI is a version of GitHub that can be installed within your own private…

This week it’s Rebase Book Edition! There’s plenty of documentation projects going on at GitHub, and it’s about time they got some attention. Clone yourself a copy, head outside with…

We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…

We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository’s default branch, which isn’t necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.

Code Watch is now available on the App Store as a paid version which supports private repos and a free version for open source. img http://img.skitch.com/20090525-e9smww21a2bmcijeaincr2gqdb.png http://www.highorderbit.com/codewatch Check it out!

The GitHub Twilight Theme by @miksago is a way to make GitHub… dark. img http://img.skitch.com/20090519-sbqmt73aujis735e9t28xkne.png http://userstyles.org/styles/18041 Requires Firefox, Stylish, and Greasemonkey.

I’ve written a blog post over at my personal blog that you all may enjoy. It’s about learning git by looking at how a Git-like system could be built from…

Welcome back to Rebase! I’ve set up a new site as an archive for the column and the latest featured projects at http://rebase.github.com. I’d also like to thank everyone who’s…

RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it’ll take…

Are you part of a US city, state, or federal government organization that uses GitHub for your source hosting? Do you belong to a government-oriented non-profit that uses GitHub? Do…