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It’s time for Rebase #34! As always, suggestions are welcome if you have a neat project you’d like to show off. Featured Project jquery is a cross-browser JavaScript library that…

Know someone who could use a clear, hands-on introduction to GitHub? @nettuts has them covered. img http://img.skitch.com/20100118-mbutj6e8irbau8ms7uach741i1.png http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/terminal-git-and-github-for-the-rest-of-us-screencast Their Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of U (which compliments…

Update 1/19/2010: Page build notifications have been added to the list of notifications you can turn on/off and have moved to the Notifications section as well. Thanks! Today we rolled…

TinyMCE, an HTML WYSIWYG editor written in JavaScript, has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/tinymce img http://img.skitch.com/20100115-m19rkf3wb3panm2fhnw5gb6h9u.png http://github.com/tinymce Their announcement lists the main reasons they chose GitHub: Community Speed Ease of access…

I have a few quick Pages updates worth noting. Jekyll has been upgraded from v0.5.4 to v0.5.7. You can find a list of changes in the history file. And, by…

IMPORTANT UPDATE: We had the wrong address listed in the original post. The event is at King St Wharf, not Newtown. Join Tom and Scott next Monday at 6pm as…

This is pretty great: Gordon is an open source Flash implementation in JavaScript by @tobeytailor. Demos: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ img http://img.skitch.com/20100113-gc3h7hwadx1wdqn4pb6rhbjk8p.png http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos It even works on the iPhone: http://twitpic.com/xxmi2 I can’t wait…

@joshthecoder said, “It’d be great to jump to a random repository on GitHub. Like the “Random article” feature on Wikipedia.” I said, “Yes, it would.” Tada: Random Repository Drag that…

We recently rolled out a bunch of improvements to commit pages to make reviewing diffs a bit more pleasant. Diffstats Diffstat style histograms of insertions and deletions for each file…

Happy 2010! Hope your new year is off to an amazing start. With the holidays behind us, we are ready to kick off another season of drinkups at home and…

See the archives and more over at rebase.github.com! Want in for the next rebase? As you can see, I’m a bit web biased today, but I’d love to get more…

It’s great to see more and more companies embracing open source. The latest to put their code on GitHub is Palm, with repos related to their webOS product. They join…

Ruby has Gemcutter, Python has Pypi, and now PHP has Pearhub! img http://img.skitch.com/20100108-j2gtgapb9a1s11fqeukw6tqfdt.png http://pearhub.org Whether your project is hosted on GitHub or somewhere else, Pearhub makes it easy to publish.…

It is now possible to completely bypass Jekyll processing on GitHub Pages by creating a file named .nojekyll in the root of your pages repo and pushing it to GitHub.…

We just pushed out an updated header design for all repository pages, you can see it in action on any of our project pages The new headers fixed some long…