The latest blogs from GitHub

Sorry about the outage – our DNS provider was down. We’ve switched providers and the original provider is back up, so everything should be okay.

This is just too cool. @voloko has created railsapi.com, a downloadable, smart searchable Ruby on Rails API with a great interface. img http://railsapi.com/i/browse.png http://railsapi.com img http://railsapi.com/i/smart.png http://railsapi.com img http://railsapi.com/i/recent.png http://railsapi.com…

Git Guru is a new blog about, well, Git! Recent posts wonder whether Git is ready for the enterprise, discuss rebase vs merge, and review branching strategies. It’s a nice…

Rebase time is now! What, 5 notably new projects? How did that happen? I just found so much cool stuff this week I couldn’t help myself. Enjoy! Featured Project fitnesse…

In the spirit of the Clojure Gitorial and Ramaze by Example, the Grizzly OSGi HTTP Service Gitorial walks you through the creation of an HTTP service for Grizzly, a Java…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090316-qmxwapt6kmaanrh6pk1esrqrep.png http://github.com/miyagawa/github-growler http://github.com/miyagawa/github-growler

Findjango is a Django vertical search which now support GitHub! img http://img.skitch.com/20090316-gw8ehhj6pydy967k145t5myjtq.png Read the most recent blog post for updates and future plans.

No words… should have sent… a poet… img http://img.skitch.com/20090310-x4rumxht2ksmfrnbntyyitpr6k.jpg http://github.com/darius/awklisp http://github.com/darius/awklisp

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…

It’s time for another Rebase! Let’s get started. (Want to get noticed? Here’s how to improve your chances) Featured Project selectorgadget is the swiss-army knife of embeddable bookmarks. It can…

Digg has joined the ranks of 37signals, TechCrunch, Shopify, and others by open sourcing some of their code on GitHub at http://github.com/digg. Welcome to the party!

gittop, an iPhone app for watching people and repositories on GitHub written by @jfahrenkrug, is now available on the App Store. img http://img.skitch.com/20090306-86jt6hac8sxk6uqng6y1yysxab.png http://springenwerk.com/products/gittop/index.html Nice work, Johannes!

Going to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this year? We’ll see you there. img http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/22/webexsf2009_speaker-banner_336x280.gif http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/8499 Our talk (Socializing Development) will be on Friday, April 3rd at 11am…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090219-cp2i7jt4s15t1emehu2uyq15yj.png Guess who received a shipment of 2,000 GitHub stickers a few weeks ago! Me, baby, me. And these are high quality vinyl stickers, sure to last to the…

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…

This is pretty cool. @larrytheliquid has created a Gitorial on how to build a library in Clojure. TDD style. Gitorial? Larry’s blog post explains the concept: …this presentation was captured…

Sorry I missed last week, hopefully I can get this out weekly from now on. As always, check out this guide to see what you can do to help your…

Lift, the simply functional web framework, has hit version 1.0. Congrats to @dpp and all the contributors! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-d9d9wkns36wte1spthgpcu67if.png http://liftweb.net What is Lift? According to the website: Lift is an…

Some of our friends in Minnesota will be participating in the F1 Web Challenge this weekend by creating a free website for a nonprofit. img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-euharguaq79mqtd8578g1behxa.png http://www.f1webchallenge.com Be sure to…

Cufón is fast text replacement with canvas and VML – no Flash or images required. Check the about page or usage page on the wiki for more infos. Of course,…

@sschroed has created git-phone, an open source GitHub iPhone app. Ever wanted to peek at an iPhone app’s source? Now’s your chance! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-fbk2jpe14i5xen4n1r191mh2pa.png http://github.com/sschroed/git-phone You can find more screen…