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It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you’ll now see an “Issues” tab in the top menu. Here’s a quick rundown of…

Prior to actually building GitHub Pages, we had been kicking around the idea for a while. I thought nobody would bother, Chris and Tom thought differently. I decided the only…

Everyone’s favorite @davglass has released his YUI Git helper to make contributing to the YUI suite of repositories even easier. The wiki does a great job of documenting the script…

Six Apart, the company behind TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, and other services, has begun open sourcing code on GitHub as @sixapart. img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-jt2m3dksnxejdmyrsfiscs7wqr.png http://github.com/sixapart They join @37signals, @digg, @yahoo, @techcrunch,…

@pcalcado has posted a simple Clojure app that runs on Google App Engine at http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate. img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-xg183ghfpi1tqcix2iwcct2h92.png http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate He’s also written a blog post explaining much about App Engine and…

The code for Planet Scala is now hosted on GitHub. @DRMacIver explains the rationale behind the move: I really don’t care about the web frontend. As far as I’m concerned,…

Michael Foord has written a great blog post summarizing some the recent progress @devhawk (Harry Pierson) has made on the IronPython debugger front. Check it out: Further Adventures of the…

GitHub officially launched one year ago. img http://img.skitch.com/20090410-1au52x6f4c1e4qrudkim7g6e3.png Thanks for a great first year, everyone! I’d also like to give a special thanks to @mojombo, @pjhyett, @schacon, @tekkub, and @qrush…

The tiny robots over at Thoughtbot have just released a new feature for Hoptoad, the app error app. Exceptions that pop up now link back to the source tree at…

I just released Jekyll 0.5.0 which contains a huge overhaul that allows you to specify options in a _config.yml file. GitHub Pages will honor most of these settings, so if…

The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at http://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement. img http://img.skitch.com/20090403-hr3ngqymfe34s217b2dejd29e.png http://github.com/etexteditor/e It was open sourced as part…

The four GitHub developers will be doing a panel at RailsConf 2009 this year and want your questions! Please submit them using this Google Moderator app. We’ll record the event,…

@aaronjensen has posted the ASP.NET MVC source code at http://github.com/machine/msmvc. Fork it, implement your ideas (or suggestions as failing tests), then appeal to the ASP.NET MVC overlords for inclusion. (I…

Sideline is a Twitter app for Adobe AIR built with YUI. With it you can create custom queries and group them by topics of interest. img http://img.skitch.com/20090402-te2qnxwwj7y7ws21ye5qgwtj9f.png http://sideline.yahoo.com It’s open…

Drupal_TDD contains code and sample apps to simplify Test Driven Development and unit testing with Drupal. img http://img.skitch.com/20090402-kyk1tg6qs4uk74r6fgrpfkkaxi.png http://github.com/patshaughnessy/drupal_tdd More updates are on the way, so be sure to check…