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Arlington, VA Drinkup on Monday
I’m going to be in the DC area this weekend for Git training in Reston, VA through our friends at Jumpstart Lab, so I thought it would be a good…
Random Hacks of Kindness 2010
Do you write code in your free time, for fun? Ever thought about doing it to save lives? Random Hacks of Kindness is a global hackathon on December 4 and…
Octocat Wednesday — Free micro plan for a month
Black Friday. Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Octocat Wednesday? Probably not because I just made that up. Lucky for you we’re also making up the prices around here…
GitHub Jobs on The Changelog Podcast
Looking for awesome developers? Good news! GitHub Jobs and The Changelog have teamed up to showcase your job listings on The Changelog’s popular podcast. Just check “Advertise this listing on…
libgit2: a Git Linkable Library
One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant – you can’t link to it from another program because…
Cyber Monday: 25% Off All Merch!
It’s Cyber Monday and we’ve decided to do something special. For today only you can get 25% off any orders you make at The GitHub Shop! Sale ends Tuesday morning…
Online Git Training Series
This December 14th we’ll be kicking off the first in a series of all-day online Git training sessions. The series will be taught by our partner Matthew McCullough of Ambient…
Hack your Kinect on GitHub
libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few…
Big Service Hook Update
I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…
Get Good with Git
If you have little or no experience on the command line, and no experience with Git, this might be the ebook for you: Getting Good With Git. From command line…
JSLint is on GitHub
We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…
Today’s Outage
A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets
This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We’ve been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…
New uploader & downloads screen
Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…
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