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If you haven’t noticed, the ’80’s are back. Obviously no one consulted me on this decision. In honor of the ’80’s brief (it had better be brief) return, we will…

My Pro Git book is shipping pretty soon and I’ve been asked by Apress to give them a list of people to send review copies to. Since I really have…

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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 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…

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…

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 –…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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