The latest blogs from GitHub

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This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…

Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…

Surely you’ve seen the new GitHub gem features? Well it just got more awesome – again! Now you can use it in place of the normal @git@ binary. $ github…


Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other “write” DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.

davglass’ YUI code examples are now on GitHub – all 268 of them.  He’s also posted his YU in a GitHub repo, YU, and [YU]( DHTML Form Controls”:http://github.com/davglass/yui-dhtml-forms). Check…

While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…

The whole GitHub crew just got back from RubyConf 2008 this weekend, which went from Thursday through Saturday. I gave a talk on “Using Git in your Ruby Applications”, which…

This week I’ve changed the graphs around quite a bit! The activity on the site just continues to increase, and surprisingly it didn’t take a hit because of RubyConf. Stats…

That’s right, in the past accounts could not be deleted. Previously we advised users to downgrade to the free plan and stop using their account, but some people wanted to…

The winners have been announced! Check out the RailsRumble site for the list. Congrats to all.

We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we’re…

Looks like the Octocat is catching on in India.  From Flickr. Anyone know who this is?

Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we’re unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we’ve been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…

It looks like I’ve been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that’s coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…

First our new queue, and now this:   The site should be much faster – but it’s still not fast enough. We’re hard at work making things like git…

If you’re not using a browser which has the opportunity to enjoy our OpenSearch integration (or LaunchBar / Quicksilver), perhaps this will interest you: a GitHub search bookmarklet. Drag this…

The guys over at Big Bang have created a short & sweet screencast which shows how to setup GitHub and Lighthouse integration. Check it out. 

Yesterday we moved to a new queue, Shopify’s delayed_job (or dj). After trying a few different solutions in the early days, we settled on Ara Howard’s Bj. It was fine…

What happens when a dozen Git developers get together for beers after an all day Git conference? Patches like this: Subject: [PATCH 1/1] diff: support making output friendlier for fine,…