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GitHub Turns One!

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195468/9e081ce4-d767-11e5-8866-125dac0d271a.jpeg) It’s hard to imagine, but just one year ago today we made the first commit to the GitHub repository. We don’t have a baby book for GitHub, so we’ll…

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Get Ready to Rails Rumble!

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195462/74d669fc-d767-11e5-82a1-c9e34b330f50.png) The 2008 Rails Rumble is set to start tonight at midnight and we’ll be sponsoring the competition in two ways. First, we’re providing free private repositories for each of…

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Oh yeah…

Scott Chacon is now officially a GitHubber. Read his blog post about it. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195408/7e139676-d766-11e5-951b-a863faa4e239.jpg) From running git-scm.com to writing the Git Peepcode to creating GitCasts to all his open source…

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Has my gem built yet?

James Smith wants you to know if your gem has built yet. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195421/c7bdd73c-d766-11e5-9040-a9c2b1727dd0.png) It’s open source, too. Thanks James!

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Git Down: Success!

Last week’s Git Down was great. Thanks to all who came out, and sorry to all who missed it. ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2921649057_26948a3bd3.jpg?v=0) ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2922498828_c6e908d37b.jpg?v=0) I’ve posted a few pictures on my Flickr account.

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Code Search On Vacation

The Code Search feature will be taking a brief vacation as we try to iron out some kinks with it. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195426/e1fe9e9c-d766-11e5-821b-fdddcc2ac709.png)

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ZendCon 2008 Pics

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Kindle Winner

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GitHub Decimates!

Russell Mull discusses his experience hacking on Cappuccino: While playing with cappuccino, I thought I’d fix a few bugs. So I made a github account and cloned the full repo.…

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PostgreSQL on GitHub

Okay no, they’re not here yet. But the amazing PostgreSQL has a git mirror which can only mean one thing – they need to move to GitHub. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195397/210dab60-d766-11e5-94ac-8009b5e89134.png) Are you…

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Git Down Speaker #2

rictic will be showing off his code_swarm fork, which you may have seen in this video. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195385/b9117960-d765-11e5-8a8d-c94bfd51a063.png) We still need more speakers – if you’ve got anything interesting and Git…

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