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GitHub Meetup SF #3
Today is the day you have all been waiting for. The bi-weekly GitHub drinkup is on tonight at 7:30pm. While PJ and Scott are off on important business in NYC,…
Continuous Integration Spring Cleaning
Continuous Integration is a fancy term for “run your project’s tests after someone pushes to the repository and notify interested parties if they fail.” We’re currently in the process of…
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…
GitHub Meetup SF #2
You know the drill. 7:30pm, July 30th at Eddie Rickenbacker’s. Look for me or @mojombo (picture reference). img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-xe664566tkqr7fxeqe3wn88g5i.png http://is.gd/1TRxW And oh yeah, rumor is @Tekkub will be here –…
Microformats on GitHub
Last weekend was a microformatsDevCamp in San Francisco. What’s a DevCamp? Chris Messina has an explanation. img http://img.skitch.com/20090730-fhntg8t8ia5capxuwsyhhp862q.png http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-07-25-dev-camp Now that the dust is settled a few projects have been…
Smart JS Polling
While Comet may be all the rage, some of us are still stuck in web 2.0. And those of us that are use Ajax polling to see if there’s anything…
The 2009 GitHub Contest
Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…
Pro Git Book
For about the last 8 months, I’ve been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…
GitHub Rebase #26
Welcome to Rebase #26! If you’ve got an interesting project you’d like to see on the column feel free to shoot me a message. I’d love to see more themed…
Speedy Gem Indexing
As of RubyGems 1.3.2, the index generation code supports incremental index updates. What this means is instead of taking minutes rebuild all of the indexes for GitHub’s thousands of gems,…
PHP.git
PHP moved from CVS to Subversion. Why should you care? Because they’ve got an official mirror on GitHub: http://github.com/php. They’ve also published a nice mini guide to Git that you…
Git User’s Survey 2009
@jnareb tells us it’s that time of year again – the Git User’s Survey 2009 is up! Please take a few minutes to participate. Remember: all questions are optional and…
GitHub Meetup SF
We’re going to try and hold a GitHub Meetup in SF every fortnight (read: two weeks) at a bar or restaurant. After all, the best part of any tech meetup…
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