The latest blogs from GitHub

What’s Emoji? According to this Ars Technica article, “Emoji icons offer a wide range of pre-built little pictures that add a little visual splash to your messaging.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090203-b8es9b5ftp4i8ay922m7ihrum5.png http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars…

@judofyr has created a simple project called Grancher which helps convert directories got git branches. It’s perfect for GitHub Pages. Check out the repo or blog post. Thanks Magnus!

eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…

The unstoppable Dr Nic has just dropped another amazing piece of software in our laps. This time it’s ChocTop, and it’s hosted right here on GitHub. From the README: Package…

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

I just learned this morning that my favorite iPhone Twitter client, NatsuLiphone, is open source and on GitHub! If you’re into iPhone development and Twitter, find a comfortable chair, sit…

This morning we had some database problems. With help from Engine Yard we were able to identify the slower queries and eliminate them. Here you can see our database exploding:…

I have a dream wherein future developers don’t even have to install Git for themselves in order to be able to use it. Apple has shown a very forward thinking…

Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. The post is just insane.  A taste: I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed “git init”, and…

JeremyBanks and davglass have been busy: they’ve rewritten my gist.rb command line tool in Python. Check out davglass’ gist.py for the code and some enhanced functionality. #Creates a new Gist…

Ilya Grigorik has posted an article on visualizing with code_swarm. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own Scott Chacon. A video of Rails’ commit history is available in…

Angelo DiNardi has put the previous incarnation of CSH’s Drink machine’s touchscreen software on GitHub as csh-js-touchscreen. The Drink machine is a soda dispenser with a touchscreen interface that can…

Gareth Rushgrove recently gave a presentation on Django Testing. It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his django-test-extensions. Thanks Gareth! (As an aside,…

Plenty of awesome projects this week! Oh, you want to be featured too? It’s easy! Featured Project ioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code…

ClickToFlash is a plugin for WebKit that prevents Adobe Flash content from automatically loading. Instead, it replaces the content with a placeholder that you can click to load the original…

Ever wanted to run a single command in your website’s images directory and have every image losslessly optimized (compressed) in place? Now you can, with the smusher gem. I just…

Want an easier way to manage all your conversation on GitHub? Check out CommitChat. They’re currently in a closed beta but you can sign up to join.  Great job…

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

If you’re in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…

Please read GitHub Help – Setting up a custom domain with Pages for the most up-to-date information on setting up a CNAME on your account.

script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle. A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds…