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Keeping Googlebot Happy Revisited
I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…
Recent Load Balancer Problems
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…
Fight Breast Cancer in Style
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year GitHub is offering a Pinktocat t-shirt to help the cause. All proceeds of this fabulous limited edition shirt will be donated…
JavaOne Drinkup
We’ve taken the Octobooth out for its second conference, JavaOne. Stop by the booth and say hello. Join us and our friends from Tasktop for a drink at Jasper’s Corner…
Biking to work is awesome
GitHub was recently featured on SF’s local CBS news in a segment about proposed bike legislation. Our very own @kamzilla can be seen representing “forward thinking companies like GitHub” in…
New Blog RSS Feed Location
Our blog RSS feed has moved to http://github.com/blog.atom Update your feed reader now if you want to stay up to date with all the exciting GitHub action. We’ve moved off…
Drift: an iPad app for GitHub Gists
Greg Borenstein (he hooked up our stoplight to our ci build system last year, remember?) and Devin Chalmers just announced that Drift is available on the App Store. Drift is…
GitHub Maven Plugins
Today marks the initial release of two GitHub plugins for the popular Maven build system. Downloads Plugin The download plugin allows you to upload build artifacts as GitHub downloads when…
Seattle GitHub Meetup on Saturday
A few of us GitHubbers will be in Seattle on Saturday, October 1st, and we’d like to invite folks out for drinks. We’re heading out to Linda’s in Seattle starting…
RubyConf &Block Party
RubyConf is this week and a gaggle of GitHubbers will be there. Make sure you catch the great talks by @mojombo and @holman on Saturday. We’re also sponsoring the first…
Issues Dashboard
The new Issues Dashboard. Now you can get all your issues on all your projects. Similar to the Pull Request Dashboard, the Issues Dashboard consolidates all of your issues in…
GitHub Office Hours
In the spirit of supporting our community, we’re going to offer frequent Office Hours events in which any user of GitHub can ask Git and GitHub questions in a public…
October “The Basics of GitHub” Free Class Dates
Our first two September instances of the free “The Basics of GitHub” class were maxed out to the 100 person capacity within days of their announcement. If you weren’t able…
GitHub Meetup in Atlanta Tonight
GitHub is in Atlanta, GA on Monday, September 26th, and we’re buying drinks! Five Seasons Brewery Westside Upstairs on the Patio 1000 Marietta St NW # 204, Atlanta, GA 30318…
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