The latest blogs from GitHub

Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…

Hot on the heels of my git setup script, user Sirupsen has made a Starting with Git guide. Okay, that’s a lie, he actually published his guide two days before…

The results have been tallied and the curtains have closed. The 2009 GitHub Contest prize of a Large account and a bottle of 20 year Pappy Van Winkle goes to…

I’ve been plotting to make the git and GitHub setup process a bit easier for new users, so I spent a small portion of my labor day weekend actually doing…

Whether you use Python, Ruby, Clojure, or good ol’ C, we want to see you at the GitHub Meetup in Portland tomorrow, September 9th at 7pm at Rontoms. It’s a…

Look at you. Fretting over your busy social calendar. You know its GitHub drinkup Thursday and yet you’ve just heard about the Functional Alcoholics meetup going on the same night!…

Rebaaaaaaaase. I’m always looking for great projects to feature, so don’t hesitate to let me know about yours! Featured Project redis is a key-value store that just hit 1.0.0. So…

A few days ago, the 2009 GitHub contest ended. I’m currently going through all of the top submissions to verify the winners and look through some of the code used.…

@alecthegeek has a tutorial over at Sitepoint for non-programmers titled [Gi]( Your New Best Friend”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git/). img http://img.skitch.com/20090831-ci9ycpn1xcxct2yd7bx3b16kdf.png http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git Check it out if you or someone you know could use some…

Thanks everybody for participating in the 2009 GitHub contest. Please push the source code for your entry up as soon as you can. We will start going through the entries…

The 2009 GitHub Contest is winding to a close – less than 48 hours until the deadline to get your submissions in. If you haven’t pushed the source code for…

Sparkle Has Moved to GitHub and Greasemonkey Lives at GitHub. I love when software I use daily moves to GitHub. Welcome!

If you haven’t noticed, the ’80’s are back. Obviously no one consulted me on this decision. In honor of the ’80’s brief (it had better be brief) return, we will…

My Pro Git book is shipping pretty soon and I’ve been asked by Apress to give them a list of people to send review copies to. Since I really have…

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Today is the day you have all been waiting for. The bi-weekly GitHub drinkup is on tonight at 7:30pm. While PJ and Scott are off on important business in NYC,…

Continuous Integration is a fancy term for “run your project’s tests after someone pushes to the repository and notify interested parties if they fail.” We’re currently in the process of…

Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…

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…