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Services Galore

After open sourcing the GitHub services code, we’ve been just floored with the number of pull requests for adding tons of functionality. We launched the service hooks with just Campfire…

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RubyGem Info

Now that it’s so easy to install gems, we figured that you should know when a repository offers a gem install. So, that’s what we did: If you see a…

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Popular Languages

We’re working on some awesome new visualizations and statistics here at GitHub. While they’re not quite ready to roll out, there is one chart I wanted to share. These are…

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git-remote-branch

If you aren’t using the GitHub gem, then perhaps “webmat’s”:webmat git_remote_branch may interest you. The aim of the micro-project can best be summed up with a quote: I believe the…

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GitHub Loves RubyGems 1.2

For the folks trying to install a RubyGem via GitHub prior to yesterday’s release, you’d get the all too familiar “Updating metadata for 563 gems…” every time. Well no more,…

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Not Just Code

cschneid and friends are working on a Sinatra book using Git and GitHub. Anyone can join in. They join the growing number of people using Git and GitHub to write…

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Moved to GitHub

Big weekend. HiveDB, the “open source framework for horizontally partitioning MySQL systems”, is moving to GitHub. They’re moving because Git rocks and so does GitHub. Sounds good to me. Check…

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Cleaning House

In the past month I’ve done a lot of traveling. Traveling means noodling – lots of topic branches laying around from airplane rides and hotel hacking. Today I decided to…

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Improved Pledgie Profiles

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Alliteration is fun isn’t it? Our friends at Pledgie busted out their css wizardry to restyle your project’s profiles to give them a more consistent…

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GitHub Support

Hey everyone, meet Matt Pruitt (aka guitsaru). He’s going to help us out on the support front – mailing list, email, and Lighthouse. With Matt’s help, we’ll have more time…

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MooHub

One of my favorite people uses the MooTools Javascript framework and noticed something on the framework’s website: That’s right, MooTools development now happens at GitHub. Yet another awesome project has…

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