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img http://img.skitch.com/20090219-cp2i7jt4s15t1emehu2uyq15yj.png Guess who received a shipment of 2,000 GitHub stickers a few weeks ago! Me, baby, me. And these are high quality vinyl stickers, sure to last to the…

One of the interesting side effects I hadn’t considered when we rolled out some fairly significant caching updates on GitHub in the beginning of January was how much Google’s crawler…

This is pretty cool. @larrytheliquid has created a Gitorial on how to build a library in Clojure. TDD style. Gitorial? Larry’s blog post explains the concept: …this presentation was captured…

Sorry I missed last week, hopefully I can get this out weekly from now on. As always, check out this guide to see what you can do to help your…

Lift, the simply functional web framework, has hit version 1.0. Congrats to @dpp and all the contributors! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-d9d9wkns36wte1spthgpcu67if.png http://liftweb.net What is Lift? According to the website: Lift is an…

Some of our friends in Minnesota will be participating in the F1 Web Challenge this weekend by creating a free website for a nonprofit. img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-euharguaq79mqtd8578g1behxa.png http://www.f1webchallenge.com Be sure to…

Cufón is fast text replacement with canvas and VML – no Flash or images required. Check the about page or usage page on the wiki for more infos. Of course,…

@sschroed has created git-phone, an open source GitHub iPhone app. Ever wanted to peek at an iPhone app’s source? Now’s your chance! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-fbk2jpe14i5xen4n1r191mh2pa.png http://github.com/sschroed/git-phone You can find more screen…

There’s now an unofficial but updated Grails mirror at http://github.com/chanwit/grails. Follow along and never miss a commit! img http://img.skitch.com/20090225-x8imnrtinwmsj32i4ei5yfwyq5.png http://grails.org

img http://img.skitch.com/20090225-gcwgt6q5xcg1jjx33pn6fhrm1t.jpg We’re not sure but think that’s @tapajos under the mask on the left.

img http://img.skitch.com/20090222-8ycbtt4mw3tytma39m8xu436q1.png http://go.davepeck.org I used to be really into the game of Go. I even made my own board once from a panel of Beech wood. Painted the lines and…

If you’re new to Git and/or GitHub and want to take your skills to the next level, you’ll definitely want to check out [Git and GitHu]( A Free Course”:http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/02/10/git-and-github-a-free-course/) by…

Want to get on Rebase? Find out how. Stats Breakdown Featured Project dynomite is an open-source Erlang implementation of Amazon’s Dynamo, a distributed key-data storage that strives for high availability.…

@tav has created tweetapp, a framework for creating Twitter apps on App Engine. Twitter’s own API lead @al3x had this to say about it earlier: img http://img.skitch.com/20090217-nxnwx1wy576962pycgejnjj2ip.png http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1220086318 It uses…

You heard me right. php_app manages a pool of persistent PHP processes and provides a simple API to evaluate PHP code from Erlang. The blog post gives a quick overview…