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Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!

Time to get your Rebase on! Send me a message about your project if you want to see it featured here, and please check out the Rebase howto as well.…

Come get your drink on with the people of the Hub at Blackbird this Thursday October 22nd at 8pm. Also, be sure to look out for a possible Drinkup:Shanghai, China…

As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these…

Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order to bring…

We will be having a maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:59 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=18&year=2009&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). A very small amount of web unavailability will be required during this period. We will be upgrading…

UNICEF is using SMS to help those in need. And they’re doing it with open source. You can read all about RapidSMS, their Mobile and SMS platform, but here’s a…

We’re having another maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:00 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=15&year=2009&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). We will be installing and testing the “sorry server” that will be enabled if no frontends are available to…

The Unofficial Apple Weblog, or TUAW, is now on GitHub: http://github.com/tuaw img http://img.skitch.com/20091014-p9c85ngu2yrhsr7jnrd888ex6.png http://github.com/tuaw While there’s nothing there yet, they only announced the account yesterday and said in the post,…

Another day, more updates! We just rolled out some subtle changes to Gist Search! All gists are now searchable. Want to find all gists about unicorn? Done. Unified user box.…

Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It’s used to sort a repo’s tags: This morning I ran the numbers and the…

We had an outage this morning from 06:32 to 07:42 PDT. One of the file servers experienced an unusually high load that caused the heartbeat monitor on that file server…

Some people have been asking for our Unicorn god config. Here it is: # http://unicorn.bogomips.org/SIGNALS.html rails_env = ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] || ‘production’ rails_root = ENV[‘RAILS_ROOT’] || “/data/github/current” God.watch do |w| w.name =…

@rbates has a great (as always) screencast on Jeweler and Gemcutter. img http://img.skitch.com/20091012-rrf7756fn2kpqeqbx7qukg8xrn.png http://railscasts.com/episodes/183-gemcutter-jeweler Check it out and give Gemcutter a try! (mg looks like another good tool to help…

We’ve been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…