The latest blogs from GitHub

You know the drill. 7:30pm, July 30th at Eddie Rickenbacker’s. Look for me or @mojombo (picture reference). img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-xe664566tkqr7fxeqe3wn88g5i.png http://is.gd/1TRxW And oh yeah, rumor is @Tekkub will be here –…

Last weekend was a microformatsDevCamp in San Francisco. What’s a DevCamp? Chris Messina has an explanation. img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-fhntg8t8ia5capxuwsyhhp862q.png http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-07-25-dev-camp Now that the dust is settled a few projects have been…

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…

Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…

For about the last 8 months, I’ve been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…

Welcome to Rebase #26! If you’ve got an interesting project you’d like to see on the column feel free to shoot me a message. I’d love to see more themed…

As of RubyGems 1.3.2, the index generation code supports incremental index updates. What this means is instead of taking minutes rebuild all of the indexes for GitHub’s thousands of gems,…

PHP moved from CVS to Subversion. Why should you care? Because they’ve got an official mirror on GitHub: http://github.com/php. They’ve also published a nice mini guide to Git that you…

More stats and pretty graphs coming soon.

@jnareb tells us it’s that time of year again – the Git User’s Survey 2009 is up! Please take a few minutes to participate. Remember: all questions are optional and…

We’re going to try and hold a GitHub Meetup in SF every fortnight (read: two weeks) at a bar or restaurant. After all, the best part of any tech meetup…

It’s the 25th edition of Rebase! If you’re feeling nostalgic and want to dive through the previous issues, check out the archive here. Featured Project pinax is a Django-based platform…

The BBC has open sourced Glow, their internally developed JavaScript library. img http://img.skitch.com/20090708-j3njets5q1g11kd5phuiy8akxq.png http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow Check out What is Glow? for their FAQ or just grab the source right here on…

Jason Meridth has produced a follow up to his excellent Git for Windows blog post. The newest blog post details sign up, creating a repository, pushing, branching, status – all…

Less than a year and half after our public launch, GitHub surpassed 100k users last night. Thanks to all for signing up, here’s a simple graph I whipped up courtesy…

Thanks to everyone who came out! I asked those present to share an open source project of theirs. Here are a few: simple_gate – A Ruby library for using net/ssh/gateway’s…

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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!